Crossword-Solution: STUBBLES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Charmond must have recognized her plodding up the hill under the blaze of the lamp; recognized, probably, her stubbly poll (since she had kept away her face), and thought that those stubbles were the result of her own desire.

Here couples still lingered on benches along the river-bank, happy in the warm night, under the August moon! And on and on they walked in that strange, miserable silence, past all those benches and couples, out on the river-path by the fields, where the scent of hay-stacks, and the freshness from the early stubbles and the grasses webbed with dew, overpowered the faint reek of the river mud.

From the stubbles and second crops of sun-baked clover puffs of warm air kept stealing up into the chillier air beneath the willows.

Past dyke and windmill and still canals, on to blazing stubbles and roaring towns; at the last, after dusk, through a quiet level region where the train pottered from one lazy little station to another, and at ten o’clock I found myself, stiff and stuffy, on the platform at Flensburg, exchanging greetings with Davies.

The rice-fields for some miles around resembled English stubbles late in autumn, and were almost as unproductive of bird or insect life.