Then is the time for the gleaner to take his or her part.
In the end, the labourer directed the gleaner to the forty-second field, and he gathered handfuls (Luke xi.
We cannot imagine Ruth in after years, even though her lot had remained that of the poor gleaner and labourer, returning upon her decision and weeping in secret as if the event had proved her high choice a foolish one.
Great was the surprise of the lonely gleaner when the rich man came to her side and gave her a word of comfortable greeting.
You shall heare a good report of my piece, I warrant you.
When I am a Sycophant And a base gleaner from an others favour, As all you are that halt upon his crutches.
When I am a Sychophant And a base gleaner from an others favour, As all you are that halt upon his crutches,-- Shame take that smoothness and that sleeke subjection!
Sarah next, Judith, Rebecca, and the gleaner maid, Meek ancestress of him, who sang the songs Of sore repentance in his sorrowful mood.
Gleaner aftergleaner has worked in the field of English literature, sorting and sifting, until almost the last grain, husk, straw and thistle have been gathered and stored with their kind.
We will here give a copy of what happened in 1732, and which we inserted in the Gleaner (Glaneur), No.
Here is a letter which has been written to one of my friends, to be communicated to me; it is on the subject of the ghosts of Hungary;[473] the writer thinks very differently from the Gleaner on the subject of vampires.
Continuation of the argument of the Dutch Gleaner 270 XIII.
And the orchardist may welcome him with open arms, for there is not among all his tenants a more indefatigable gleaner of bugs and worms.
He found it a book where the gleaner caught at much which the more hurried harvester must miss, a book yielding, as he felt all good books should yield, a new and unexpected delight in its second reading.
If he could once introduce hisgleaner in Venice, he should be a made man.
If I could get him to take hold of my gleaner in New England, we could make the blueberry crop worth twice what it is.
A Ground Gleaner THE HOUSE WREN "We all know Jenny Wren!
A Ground Gleaner as well as a Weed Warrior, and a constant joyful songster.
A Ground Gleaner and Tree Trapper, clearing grubs and beetles from ploughed land.
He is a Ground Gleaner and a Tree Trapper," said the Doctor, while the children laughed merrily at Dodo's idea of a baker bird.
A Ground Gleaner and a Weed Warrior, to some extent, but a bad neighbor, a worse parent, a homeless vagabond, and an outlaw in Birdland.
Note, in the next place, that what a gleaner gets she wins ear by ear; occasionally she picks up a handful at once, but as a rule it is straw by straw.
I use the figure of a gleaner because I believe that few Christians ever go much beyond it, and yet they are free to do so if they are able.
Then, again, the gleaner takes the wheat home and threshes it.
If a gleaner should stow away her corn in her room, and leave it there, the mice would get at it; but she would have no food from it if she did not thresh out the grain.
We remark, next, that every ear the gleaner gets she has to stoop for.
Secondly, we shall notice a humble gleaner; the gleaner was Ruth in this instance, but she may be looked upon as the representative of every believer.
The gleaner stoops, and gets one ear, and then she stoops again for another.
Again, we may remark, that the gleaner in her business has to endure much toil and fatigue.
We hope some timid gleaner will accept our invitation to come and eat with us, and will have confidence enough to dip her morsel in the vinegar.
Happy gleaner who finds eternal love and eternal life in the fields in which he gleans!
A gleaner does not expect that the ears will come to her of themselves; she knows that gleaning is hard work.
Note, next, that what the gleaner picks up she keeps in her hand; she does not drop the corn as fast as she gathers it.
He was a mighty man of wealth, but he pleads the cause of a poor gleaner in his fields; he allows her approaches and her suit, and takes her to him to wife.
She was the poor one, and the stranger, and the gleaner in another's field, to the end.
Rising one morning before the clouds were red over Hebron, she went down into the valley where the harvesters were at work, and followed the reapers and binders, picking up as a gleaner all the stray heads of barley she could find.
With touching simplicity and humility the gratefulgleaner replies, "Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
He who comforted and blessed the lonely gleaner while the harvest lasted, became her husband when the harvest toil was past.
The fair gleaner returns home artlessly triumphant with the avails of her day's toil, and tells her mother of the kind patronage she has received.
The gleaner among the rock debris of this lake has a field of labor which is not dissimilar to that of the fossilist.
But the entrance is without rock scenery, and the student of its geology must be a patient gleaner along its shores.
Through the dim ages comes only the perfume, Left where the flowers of Truth fell to earth; With ne'er a gleaner to treasure the blossoms, Save the sweet petals of baptism and birth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gleaner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
