1. The sparrows in the ploughland were crouching in terror of the kestrel.

2. There was a thriving mill, and the fields of the demesne were wide and green, the ploughland well tended.

3. The enclosure turned the Broyle into the landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads that it still remains.

4. The camp stood where, until quite lately, had been pasture and ploughland.

5. Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.