Then, for a stretch of perhaps seventy years, the house lay fallow.

They lay fallow and overgrown from the water's edge to the house.

Otherwise her mind, by no means a poor one, lay fallow and untilled.

The nearby paddies lay fallow, the laboratory incomplete, the roads and bridges unbuilt.

He was confused, and his sense of emergency lay fallow.

Some of the strips lay fallow, grown over with weeds.

Where it lay fallow it was entirely hidden by a bed of grass and camomile.

They lay fallow for seventy-five years, and then gave the best of accounts of themselves.

Those faculties which had been overstrained now lay fallow-andthe frame rapidly regained its tone.

Land lay fallow and machinery was left to rust.

Ploughed by affliction to the core, my heart lay fallow for every seed that fell.

Do these spaces lay fallow, waiting for your return?

Western Asia lay fallow under the Ottoman cannon-wheels.

I was forced to lay fallow.

For years his mind lay fallow and receptive, awaiting the occasion which should develop the true inspiration of the poet.

That was evident in the way once-productive fields now lay fallow, previously sturdy fences went unmended, and the extensive angen pens stood empty.