At Great Bassam, in Guinea, two oxen are slain annually to procure a good harvest.
In Corea about the fifteenth day of the first month villages engage in the same kind of contest with each other, and it is thought that the village which wins will have a good harvest.
In favour of this view it may be urged, first of all, that their appearance is everywhere greeted with joy, because it promises fertility and a good harvest.
M205) The Shans of Indo-China still believe in the efficacy of human sacrifice to procure a good harvest, though they act on the belief less than some other tribes of this region.
M78 Specimens of Yabim tales told as charms to procure a good harvest.
The Gallas dance in couples round sacred trees, praying for a good harvest.
Similarly, by mimicking the growth of crops they hope to ensure a good harvest.
Often it is kept till the sowing-time in spring, when part of it is mixed with the seed-corn and part given to the ploughman and plough-horses or ploughoxen to eat, in the expectation of a good harvest.
The people gathered up the rice, each man taking home a little with him to secure a good harvest.
The elaborate operations on the BADI FARM that we have described might seem to a materialist to be sufficient to secure a good harvest; but this is not the view taken by the Kayans, or any other of the cultivators of Borneo.
Not infrequently the parents wish to have the child returned to them when their affairs take a turn for the better, owing to a good harvest or some stroke of luck, and this is a frequent cause of dissensions.
Offerings of eggs and fowls to the good spirits having proved fruitless, a day is fixed for the BAYOH, preferably shortly after a good harvest, and the household begins its preparations for the occasion.
Vegetation is making an astonishingly rapid progress, and the grain in its luxuriant growth upon a rich soil, presents to the eye the fairest prospects of a good harvest.
Good Harvest at the Settlement, and arrival of Cattle from United States.
Sow to the flesh, and a good harvest will be impossible.
We can sow for a good harvest, or we can do like the Sioux Indians, who once, when the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs sent them a supply of grain for sowing, ate it up.
Just as we cannot reap a good harvestunless we have sown good seed, so we cannot reap eternal life unless we have sown to the Spirit.
On the following morning the good spirit is invoked, and asked to bless every householder, and give a good harvest.
May they also vouchsafe to us a good crop, good sunshine, and a good harvest.
In this feast invocations are made to this god, and he is asked to give them a good harvest.
They are entirely dependent upon his goodwill for a good harvest.
If a Dyak gets a good harvest, it is attributed to some magic charm he has received from some kindly spirit.
Tim the Snammer and Josh Pedler, bent on their predatory intent, and hoping to reap a good harvest at the house of Mr. Torrens, approached that dwelling nearly half an hour after Sir Henry Courtenay had entered it.
He spoke of the prospects of a good harvest; and observed that every thing seemed to hold out a promise of happiness for Marion and himself.
When Old Death thought I was primed enough to embrace any new plan with eagerness, he said, 'Jacob, I have something for you to do that I am convinced will yield a good harvest.
In the latter part of the Nihongi frequent mention is made of embassies to Tatsuta, in Yamato, to pray to the Wind-Gods for a good harvest.
Practically, all the deities are prayed to for a good harvest, or for rain.
Envoys were sent to all the Gods of Nankaido asking their protection against rebellion, for a good harvest &c.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good harvest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
