There were real poppies growing among the ripening corn.

About them lay the gardens, or square fields, that were well cultivated, and at this season rich with ripening corn.

All was innocent life, from the lark which sang on high to the little shrew-mouse which ran amongst the ripening corn, or the martin which dashed away at the sound of my approach.

He was young, and tall and strong, his hair the colour of ripening corn.

She looked at him with eyes the green of ripening corn.

In the fields just outside the town there was a stretch of ripening corn, from which a lark suddenly rose with joyful song up to the sky.

Then in the eighth month prayers are said to keep away the rain that would destroy the ripening corn.

Outdoors into a field of ripening corn.

Even in June, though, you can see snow on the peaks of the Gredos beyond the ripening corn.

Now it was foraging, stripping the ripening corn from the stalk and consuming it on the spot.