A track led through fields of rye, flat and straight for a long way.

For about six miles we rode on small roads through fields of rye, wheat and flowers.

The road went down between the fields of rye, which seemed, under that bright sun, to glow with an almost supernatural brilliance.

He pulled the horse round to face eastwards, then spurred it into the tall field of rye.

He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye, standing by the edge of a cliff.

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.

"We'll collect more seed and plant little fields of rye and oats," she said.

There was no protection: knee-high grass, low stone walls, off to the left a low field of rye.

He spotted the egg-tossers in what had been a field of rye but was now overgrown and full of weeds.

Beyond the second barricade on the right, John could see an overgrown cart track cutting through a field of rye where tall weeds poked.

He keeps picturing children playing in a field of rye near the edge of a cliff, and him catching them when they start to fall off.

To replicate the book's period detail, Mr. Sinise had a whole field of rye planted on location near Santa Barbara.

"What would happen if a khoreefcos devised and fabricated a simple, mule-drawn appartus that could reap a field of rye in less time than twenty scythe-men?

We sailed past cow pastures and red farmhouses set in blond fields of rye hemmed by evergreens before coming to the lock at Lilla Edet.

XVII The coachman reined in the four-in-hand and looked to the right, at a field of rye, where some muzhiks were sitting by a cart.

As Giogi emerged from the fields of rye, the sun was no more than half a palm's width from the horizon, and the air was already turning chill.

To recreate the battlefield authentically, the Russians bulldozed away two hills, laid five miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley and wildflowers and reconstructed four historic buildings.

Staff members dressed as Colonial farmers will begin cutting down a field of rye the old-fashioned way, with hand-wielded sickles, at 11 A.M. and continue through the day, with, they hope, a little help from the public.

"HAPPY 350 SOUTHAMPTON" proclaims a giant field of rye and oats on Mr. Halsey's Water Mill farm.

His last name "Caulfield" links to the novel's famous rye-catcher metaphor, in which Holden wants to be the person responsible for catching carefree children playing in a field of rye from obliviously falling off a nearby cliff.

When Chapman was asked if he had anything to say, he rose and read a passage from 'The Catcher in the Rye': Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.

The book derives its title from a passage in which Holden Caulfield describes his vision of himself as a protector of innocence: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all," he says.

The interesting thing about "Asya's Happiness" is that it really is a "tractor film" in setting (a collective farm at harvest time) and look (lots of fields of rye photographed in that idealized, silvery black and white so popular before World War II).

From this perspective, Kuopio almost dissolves into a tapestry of densely packed evergreen forests, pale-green fields of rye set off by an occasional red-ocher farmhouse and deep-blue Kallavesi Lake below, with darker lakes far beyond, all of them studded with scores of emerald-green islands even more primeval than their surroundings.