16 adjectives to describe gleaning

Those poor Retailers, whom we see so busy in every Street, deliver in their respective Gleanings to the Merchant.

I wonder this owl dares look on the sun; and I marvel this goose flies not the laurel: his device might have been better, a fool going into the market-place to be seen, with this motto: Scribimus indocti; or, a poor beggar gleaning of ears in the end of harvest, with this word: Sua cuique gloria.

Also Kate Wilkes had a way of doing a memorable bit of criticism in a sentence or two: Regarding MacDowell, the American composer, "He left the harvest to the others, but what exquisite gleanings he found!"...

The fourth gleaning is styled the "autumn dew"; but this is not universally observed, as the leaves are now old and of very inferior quality.

that the death-heads and cross-bones, which are arranged in the crypt under the Minster, are the grisly gleanings of some battle-field.

He is a relic of the past,a monstrous compound out of the imperfect gleanings of the Wapping dramatists of the last century.

It may be interesting to some of my readers to devote a few pages to the subject, and to offer some judicial gleanings.

It contains several proverbs found in the first large collection, and evidently represents later gleanings from the same field. (7) The words of Agur, 30.

There are four pickings in the course of the year,the last one, however, being considered a mere gleaning.

" When all her multifarious gleanings were gathered up, they lingered a little to drink in the beauty of the scene before them.

His readers, therefore, are not saddened by any pathetic gleanings from a once-rich harvest-field, or the carefully picked-up shakings of November boughs.

In going over the ground surveyed by him and by many other scholars I have been able to add but slight gleanings of my own.

If we get some useful gleanings by these secret accusations, we gain much nonsense.

Their setting sun still shoots a glimmering ray, Like ancient Rome majestic in decay: And better gleanings their worn soil can boast, Than the crab-vintage of the neighbouring coast.

Ignatius Druso, my fellow student, was of opinion that he only dexterously availed himself in the evening of the news which he had gathered from his patients in the morning; and that his familiars were no more than a few active emissaries, for whose espionage and additional gleanings of town news, it answered to him well, to pay.

" Among stories relating to craftsmen, these are perhaps worth gleaning.

16 adjectives to describe  gleaning