"First-year" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cultivated at short intervals until the plants are large enough to shade the soil. In Louisiana one planting of cane usually gives two crops. The first is called plant cane; the second is known as first-year stubble, or ratoon. Sometimes second-year stubble ...
— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett
... on the grounds of the Academy, cadets wearing the green uniforms of first-year Earthworms and the blue of the upper-classmen stopped all activity as they heard the blasting of the braking rockets high in the heavens. They stared enviously into the sky, watching the smooth steel-hulled spaceship drop toward the concrete ...
— Danger in Deep Space • Carey Rockwell
... back to my sixteenth year, when I was still at school, and my elder brother a first-year student. I had not yet known women but, like all the unfortunate children of our society, I was already no longer innocent. I was tortured, as you were, I am sure, and as are tortured ninety-nine one-hundredths of our boys. I lived in a frightful ...
— The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy
... protested. "No; I'm going there to study medicine. Oh, you don't know how enthusiastic I am over the idea! I've bought some of the first-year books already, and have been reading them. Really, Condy, they are even better than ...
— Blix • Frank Norris
... told us that. But that was only a tale to encourage the first-year men. Having lived in ...
— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy |
