Many instances are recorded of farmers leaving their harvesters in the field and joining the grand army then forming for the defense of the imperilled state and nation, while their courageous and energetic wives have gone to the fields and finished harvesting the ripened crops.

Anderson strode to and fro, from one side of the harvester to the other.

The boy thought of the harvesters at home, who rode on their reaping machines on fine summer mornings, and in a short time mowed a large field.

The Douglas squirrel is the happy harvester of most of the Sequoia cones.

The bright drops that gemmed the tamarisk-bushes above the wall of the town-place were already fading under its heat; and I heard the voices of the harvesters up the lane, as they returned to the oat-field

The clean, plump grain, the sowing on fallow ground, the long wait, the first tender green, and the change day by day to the deep waving fields of goldthen the harvest, hot, noisy, smoky, full of dust and chaff, and the great combine-harvesters with thirty-four horses.