The people for the past few years have not tilled the fields and have lived solely upon meat; so when finally cattle were lacking, famine came.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
If old, they resume the identical fields they tilled before, but never the old houses or site of the old village, that being deemed unlucky.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
For as his eye fell on these clouds of mist, a beam of light came travelling swiftly down the mountain and pierced them, turning them to a fierce blood-red; next, almost with an audible rush, the sun leapt into view over the eastern spurs: and while he stared down upon the vapours writhing and bleeding under this lance-thrust of dawn-while they shook themselves loose and trailed away in wreaths of crimson and gold and violet, and deep in the chasms between them shone the plain with its tilled fields and villages-a cry from Bhagwan Dass fetched him round sharply, and he beheld, a few yards above him on the slope, a man.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch