"Uncropped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flea in a woolly blanket, than a leg-bail monk in this wilderness of mountains, forests, and precipices! But the flea may be caught, and so shall the monk. I have said it. He is well spotted, with his silver crown and his uncropped ears. The rascally heretic! But his vows shall keep him, though he won't keep his vows. The whining, blubbering idiot! Gave his plaything, and wants it ...
— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald
... it has worn away the hair round his neck, in his constant struggles to escape. See how he has browsed the scanty grass of that dry pasture, in the little circle to which he is confined, and is now trying to reach an uncropped tuft, just beyond his tether. And the sun is beating down upon him, and there is not the shade of a leaf for him to creep into, this July day. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... Mustard growing in soil previously cropped with rye, and in soil previously uncropped . . . . . . . ...
— Lessons on Soil • E. J. Russell |
