Equally improbable did it seem that any thugs of the town would expect to reap any harvest from robbing three midshipmen.

It would repay them for their labor, and yield them a rich harvest of gain.

In Egypt they are taken far up the Nile, and floated slowly home again, gathering the honey-harvest of the various fields on the way, timing their movements in accord with the seasons.

In the same way the weather of certain seasons of the year is supposed to influence the vegetable world, and in Rutlandshire we are told that "a green Christmas brings a heavy harvest;" but a full moon about Christmas Day is unlucky, hence the adage: "Light Christmas, light wheatsheaf, Dark Christmas, heavy wheatsheaf.

""The people of Acron husband their grounds and time so well, that every year produces a plentiful harvest."

"We know more certainly every day," says Ruskin, "that whatever appears to us harmful in the universe has some beneficent or necessary operation; that the storm which destroys a harvest brightens the sunbeams for harvests yet unsown, and that a volcano which buries a city preserves a thousand from destruction.

The benevolence of the minority could not counterbalance these odious offences, and deadly hatred was sown, which has since borne an abundant harvest.

Mazzuolo, as this man was called, was an Italian by birth, and gladly undertook a commission which promised him a rich harvest of booty.

The farmer may find his harvest ruined by a drought or by a deluge; the coal or the gold, for the extraction of which you have perhaps set up an extensive mining plant, may come to an end which is unexpectedly abrupt.

Now won't you believe me? Won't you let me manage the harvest?" "I will not believe," replied old Dorn, stubbornly.

Let it go where labor will garner a richer harvest, and industry reap a better reward for its toil.

the farmers, all around, had a tough time getting their harvests home, because every hand was treading for mussels in the creeks and small rivers for thirty miles around Carson.

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!"...

She may open mines she may never work, build railways that others will enjoy, sow harvests for alien reaping.

Sudden with rage their injur'd bosoms burn, Retort the insult, or the wound return; Unwrong'd, as gentle as the breeze that sweeps 170 The unbending harvests or undimpled deeps, They guard, the Kings of Needwood's wide domains, Their sister-wives and fair infantine trains; Lead the lone pilgrim through the trackless glade, Or guide in leafy wilds the wand'ring maid.

Fly, lays of mine, but not to fruitful plains Where spring the harvests by God's benison, But seek the deserts where for needed rains Both prayers and curses rise in unison.

In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun; The sedges flaunt their harvest In every meadow nook, And asters by the brookside Make asters in the brook; From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' sweet odors rise; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butterflies By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Insects and mildews and unexpected heats may blast a whole harvest, and the farmer has nothing to fall back upon.

"And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds.

The importance of alternating crops was also discovered and from now on, the old system of fallow cultivation was given up and continuous cultivation with, in some areas, even more than one harvest per field per year, was introduced even in wheat-growing areas.

These may resemble "the way-side" in the parable, on which the fowls of the air devoured the corn as soon as it was sown; and hence those plans should be devised and pursued from which we may anticipate a harvest of real good.

The Ambarvalia were festivals in honour of Ceres, in order to procure a happy harvest.

He enjoyed the harvest of success, and his ambition was urged by it to new exertion.

And accept this blessing For countless ages may the god of gods, Lord of the atmosphere, by copious showers Secure abundant harvests to thy subjects; And thou by frequent offerings preserve The Thunderer's friendship.

My kingdom I will liken to, A man who in his field Sow'd good seed, and expected soon A harvest it would yield.