Use harvest in a sentence
Sentences ending with harvest
- All around her was the wide awe of night, enriched by the sweet perfume of a coming harvest. [11]
- This Demeter was the most successful personification of the divine goodness which rewards the sowing of seed with the harvest. [10]
- Ulrich now saw the fulfilment of Don Juan's words, that power was an arable field; for there were many full ears in Aalst for them both to harvest. [10]
- For instance, one of his favourite disciples was willing to shake the nuts from the rotten branches of a nut tree which no one dared to climb if he might have half the harvest. [10]
- The gold is not evenly distributed through the surface dirt, as in ordinary placer mines, but is collected in little spots, and they are very wide apart and exceedingly hard to find, but when you do find one you reap a rich and sudden harvest. [5]
- Through Barfleur Coulee it was a terrible march, for there was no road, and again and again they were nearly overturned, while wolves hovered in their path, ready to reap a midnight harvest. [11]
- This now appears in the time of harvest. [10]
- The goddess before her was the very one whose statue stood in the temple of Demeter, and to whom she also sacrificed, with the Greeks in Tennis, when danger threatened the harvest. [10]
- Flood-time, seed-time and Harvest. [10]
- There is nothing for me but to stand helpless and see other people reap the astonishing harvest. [5]
More example sentences with the word harvest in them
- Larks flew heavenward with a low sweet song, from amidst the grain growing luxuriantly for the winter harvest, and butterflies hovered above the blossoming fields. [10]
- I shall reap where I did not sow--his harvest and my own. [11]
- Taking stock of what he brought in, Smith found food enough to last till the next harvest, and at once organized the company into bands of ten or fifteen, and compelled them to go to work. [4]
- Cheer and goodwill were everywhere, for a fine harvest was in view, and this feast-day always brought gladness and simple revelling. [11]
- The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness. [2]
- The old mother toiled without a servant, the old man without a helper, save in harvest time. [11]
- Senator Dilworthy began to think the harvest was ripe. [5]
- The company chartered this establishment, and swarmed upon it till it looked like a Neapolitan 'calesso', and the procession might have been mistaken for a harvest-home--the harvest of beauty and fashion. [4]
- She thought of the tilled fields in Goshen which, after having borne an abundant harvest, remained arid and bare till the moisture of the river came to soften the soil and quicken the seed which it had received. [10]
- While he held the sceptre one abundant harvest followed another, and he had married the most beautiful and most virtuous daughter of the mightiest prince in the kingdom. [10]
- But of course the main fact was that no canvassing had been done--because a subscription harvest is before publication, (not after, when people have discovered how bad one's book is. [5]
- At last, in the fulness of time, the fruits of sin ripened in a sudden harvest of crime. [6]
- In the end the fines ate up our crop--and they took it all; they took it all and made us harvest it for them, without pay or food, and we starving. [5]
- As soon as the darkness of this moonless night passed away, the high festival of the spring equinox and the harvest celebration would begin. [10]
- And Calvin, aware that the summer is past and the harvest is ended, and that a mouse in the kitchen is worth two birds gone south, scampers away to the house with his tail in the air. [4]
- We are aware that it is sometimes a temporary gratification, when a friend cannot succeed, to be able to choose between opponents; but we believe that that gratification is the seed-time which never fails to be followed by a most abundant harvest of bitterness. [7]
- Even Demetrius, in spite of his fatigue, broke through his rule of "early to bed"; he felt he must see the reaping of the harvest he had sown for his brother. [10]
- Many had died, some were sick, Ratcliffe, the late President, was a prisoner for mutiny, Master Scrivener had diligently gathered the harvest, but much of the provisions had been spoiled by rain. [4]
- It came with shining scales glistening in the light and settled on the land acre upon acre, morgen upon morgen; and when it rose again the fields, ready for the harvest, were like a desert--the fields which the locust had eaten. [11]
- At the banquet served on the night of the harvest festival, no table had lacked a roast lamb; during this hour of waiting the housewife offered her family what she could. [10]
- The harvest was ripe for the reaper; but, ere he raised the sickle, the owner's claim must be preserved. [10]
- There was great rejoicing among the Hebrews, who like those of their blood in the city of Rameses, had assembled in every house at a festive repast on the night of the new moon after the vernal equinox when the harvest festival usually began. [10]
- We're going to reap this harvest all alone; we're going to Chicago you clean off the table! [11]
- He had a queer, short face, ruddy as the harvest moon, and he smiled good-humouredly when I opened my eyes. [9]
- In the year preceding the revolution there had been a bad harvest, and frightful stories were told of famine in the weaving districts of Silesia. [10]
- He had taken part in the country festivals-May Day, Plow Monday, the Sheep Shearing, the Morris Dances and Maud Marian, the Harvest Home and Twelfth Night. [4]
- She sobbed as one whose harvest of the past is all tears. [11]
- What a harvest of English strongholds we had reaped in those three days!--strongholds which had defied France with quite cool confidence and plenty of it until we came. [5]
- In the middle of a sober conversation begun by Ilagin about the year's harvest, Nicholas pointed to the red-spotted bitch. [2]
- Success gave him nerve and even actual intrepidity; insomuch, indeed, that after he had conveyed his harvest to his mother in a back alley, he went to the reception himself, and added several of the valuables of that house to his takings. [5]
- In the morning my spirit is light, and I have harvest where I would gather, and the stubble is for my foes. [11]
- Long may he live to reap the plentiful harvest of hearty, honest human affection! [5]
- And, ere the last hour also strikes for thee, Search thou the harvest of the vanished years. [10]
- The streets of Jansen were washed with flood, and the green and gold things of garden and field and harvest crumbled beneath the sheets of rain. [11]
- We know what is the bitterness of those who have escaped this bloody harvest of the remorseless conspirators; and from that we can judge of the elements of destruction incorporated with many of the seemingly solid portions of the fabric of the rebellion. [6]
- Your first harvest is all garnered. [3]
- You really never invested a penny of my uncle's bequest, but only its unmaterialized future; what we have lost was only the incremented harvest from that future by your incomparable financial judgment and sagacity. [5]
- He had many interviews in his office with Seppi and me, and threshed out our testimony pretty thoroughly, thinking to find some valuable grains among the chaff, but the harvest was poor, of course. [5]
- The Egyptian garrison in the fortified store-house had not failed to notice that the Hebrews were under some special excitement, but they supposed it due to the harvest festival. [10]
- A man like Iberville was not to be counted lightly; for every word he sowed, he would reap a harvest of some kind. [11]
- Orion's presence alone hung like a threatening hail-cloud over the sprouting harvest of her peace of mind. [10]
- He sows in hope, in the swelling of the grain he sees the hand of the gods who claim his joyful thanksgiving after the harvest is gathered in. [10]
- She shivered from head to foot, and yet all day the harvest sun had drenched the room in its heat. [11]
- But be comforted --he shall harvest his share. [5]
- I mailed my harvest to you a while ago. [5]
- Last autumn the harvest of new wine was more abundant than we expected. [10]
- And it is hard indeed to the stricken heart to look for a new spring for the withered harvest of joy. [10]
- There was a general rush, the work was done with thoroughness, and a good harvest of diamonds was gathered. [5]
- The whole summer, from spring sowing to harvest, he was busy with the work on his farm. [2]
- Let us pray for his soul, and let us comfort her who, loving deeply, reaped no harvest of love. [11]
- It closed as follows:-- With Laura Hawkins, fair, fascinating and fatal, and with the dissolute Colonel of a lost cause, who has reaped the harvest he sowed, we have nothing to do. [5]
- But when it fell upon the right soil it bore a growth of thought which ripened into a harvest of large and noble lives. [6]
- He had one feddan of land in his own village, but he had no time to work it or harvest it. [11]
- A winter of famine lurked ahead, and men were goaded near to madness at the thought of clearings made and corn planted in the spring within reach of their hands, as it were, and they might not harvest it. [9]
- Others followed her example, and the old man never had a richer harvest. [10]
- By this means, every office-holder and other public creditor may, and most likely will, set up shaver; and a most glorious harvest will the specie-men have of it,--each specie-man, upon a fair division, having to his share the fleecing of about fifty-nine rag-men. [7]
- It was some distance away now, but he could see Kitty still at the corner of the house with a small harvest of laundered linen in her hand. [11]
- The little box contained a reaping machine, which gathered the capillary harvest of the past twenty-four hours with a thoroughness, a rapidity, a security, and a facility which were a surprise, almost a revelation. [6]
- Having examined the coast from Penobscot to Cape Cod, and gathered a profitable harvest from the sea, Smith returned in his vessel, reaching the Downs within six months after his departure. [4]
- How many years--or centuries--was it since he had been in that harvest of death? [11]
- The plains were bountiful with golden harvest, and the activities of men were lost among the corn. [11]
- What shall it be--the old serpent dance of the Nile, or the posturing of decorous courtship when the olives are purple in the time of the grape harvest? [4]
- But no one at this time could say with certainty which typesetter would reap the harvest of millions. [5]
- A swift glance at the sky told him that it was a little after midnight, yet his fears seemed to have been true--the priests were crowding into the temples to prepare for the harvest festival to-morrow. [10]
- At your ships arrivall, the Salvages harvest was newly gathered, and we going to buy it, our owne not being halve sufficient for so great a number. [4]
- We lacked skins, and when we asked you to help us with yours--" "We said no, because we ourselves did not know what to do with the harvest. [10]
- Idle and shiftless and evil ye are, while the earth cries out to give you of its plenty, a great harvest from a little seed, if ye will but dig and plant, and plough and sow and reap, and lend your backs to toil. [11]
- With a cry, almost rough in its intensity, he caught her in his arms and buried his face in the soft harvest of her hair. [11]
- He did it again six months later, at the beginning of the harvest, when she and Ba'tiste Caron started off on the long trail of life together. [11]
- But he had a will, he was determined; he had sowed, he would reap his harvest to the useless stubble. [11]
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