At that time, then, I reaped the fullharvest of my exertions: the disappointment and vexation were of later date.
He sometimes took a holiday with them; and even entered for a time into some of their frolics, when his seedtime and harvest were finished: he was quite fit to keep his own with them.
When the harvest came near a conclusion, there was generally a severe "kemp" between neighbours who would have "cliach" first.
It was the custom at that time that the party who finished harvest first communicated the intelligence to his neighbours by the firing of guns.
The beginning of 1837 saw a fearful commercial collapse in England, which was aggravated by a deficient harvest in the ensuing summer.
III There will be no harvest at all this year; For the gaunt black slopes arising Lift the wrinkled aching furrows of their fields, falling away, To the rainy sky in vain.
On the plains there is drooping harvest, But no harvest can for long time hold us, We have seen the winds, baffled, Racing up the orange-flecked trench of the hills.
Livingstone, relating his adventures on Lake Nyassa, says: "During a portion of the year the northern dwellers on the lake have a harvest which furnishes a singular kind of food.
And still across the wooded space The harvest lights of Harden shone, And song and jest and laugh went on.
And let us hope, as well we can, That the Silent Angel who garners man May find some grain as of old lie found In the human cornfield ripe and sound, And the Lord of the Harvest deign to own The precious seed by the fathers sown!
Let us keep sweet, If so we may, our hearts, even while we eat The bitterharvest of our own device And half a century's moral cowardice.
The future looked promising; the Indians showed the fathers 'much affection' and a rich harvest of souls seemed about to be garnered.
There the latter reaches its consummation, and reaps the rich harvest of its great reward.
It is because of the dominant spirit of worldliness in the Christian home, that the laborers upon the walls of Zion are inadequate to the great work to be done, that they are insufficient for the great harvest of souls.
You may make an indelible stain on your conscience, which even forgiveness will not wipe out; and you may sow your wild oats, but what will the harvest be?
The Apostle has been exhorting to unwearied well-doing, on the ground of the certain coming of the harvest season.
There was no prospect, Elfwyn said, of the campaign coming to an end; the harvest must take care of itself or the women and children must reap it.
It was a fine day in September when the thankful people of Aescendune were called to raise the song of "Harvest Home"--for the fruits of the earth had indeed been safely gathered in ere the winter storms by the hands of women and children.
Weeks passed away, and the women and children, as well as the old men, were all busy in getting in the bounteous harvest with which this year God had blessed the earth.
In the evening there was a harvest home; it was of course a strange one without the men, who were afar off, fighting for their country, but we tried to be thankful for mercies vouchsafed, and I and Father Adhelm were there to bless the food.
It was a fortnight ago, and our harvest was all gathered in.
A second messenger came during harvest time from the camp, now on the borders of Sussex.
I needn't wait till after wheat harvest now, it's so much cheaper than what I had figured on.
Besides, you can help us very much with theharvest again this year.
The harvest fields of the Herberts presented a most lively appearance; for a large number of country girls, and active young men, were engaged in them.
No slow and solemn feasts were those of the harvest homes.
Indeed, all hands had to assist, and it was only by so doing that the harvest could be gathered in time.
And so the good harvest was gathered in, and then, when the last sheaf was set up, and the laden waggon went slowly away from the bare fields, the harvest-home was celebrated.
The harvest is ready to be got in, and they have sent to me to go and help.
The blackberry harvest would be over in the sunny Rhine country before it began in Ireland.
Do you covet the mines of Mexico and Peru, the profits of extended commerce, or the harvest of your own teeming fields?
Here I stop, to review the field over which we have passed, and to gather its harvest into one sheaf.
But in the silence of the night a greater Reaper had passed by, gathering in the harvest of a righteous life, and leaving only tender memories for the gleaners who had come so late.
Thus the soil was made ready, and in the depth of winter the good seed was sown, was watered with many tears, and soon sprang up green with a promise of a harvest for their after years.
But one day, in the harvest time, his lordship chanced to meet Spare gathering watercresses at a meadow stream, and fell into talk with the cobbler.
No friend or servant have I except my dwarf Corner, who comes to me at the end of harvest with his handmill, his basket, and his axe.
Over all was a cold blue sky with no sun, but a light clear and silvery as that of the harvest moon.
It waits, from little seed, A harvest rich in souls; and therefore God Did man to woman join.
In his works we find a harvest of such glorious themes as store the granary of poet minds; we see everywhere evidences of power.
The embargo has proved a famous harvest to some merchants here.
As the uncultured prairie bears a harvest Heavy and rank, yet worthless to the world, So mind and heart uncultured run to waste; The noblest natures serving but to show A denser growth of passion's deadly fruit.
I never thought I should live to amble along like this," she confided to Mary as they drove between golden harvest fields.
He will cause the deepest and darkest distress to yield the very richest harvest of blessing.
God shall reap a richer harvest by far in the fields of redemption than ever He could have reaped in the fields of an unfallen creation.
