A few harvesters are seen, carrying their own bedding; grasshopper bitten quilts with all their colors flaunting and their cotton gushing out, held together by a shawl-strap or a rope.
And I was three times fraternally accosted by harvesters who thought my oil-cloth package of poems was a kit of burglar's tools.
The third inspector, Herr von Wangen, was overseeing the harvesters in the Oster meadow and had excused himself from appearing at table, and Herr Storting was busy with the reception of the first instalments of hay.
The harvesters would occasionally cast an anxious glance towards the west, and then proceed with their labour with renewed zeal.
The charming view seemed more lovely and peaceful than before, for the busy crowd of harvesters was absent.
The harvesters ceased working, took their provisions, and sat down against one of the shocks.
And then he called the harvesters and said to them, Where is my grain?
And they will hear the harvesters rejoice, because the harvest is so great.
The grain is ripe; the harvest is abundant, but the harvesters are few.
Among the harvesters were three young women, who were nimbly binding sheaves, with little children around them.
The vastness of the prairie made the harvesters themselves look like children playing at games.
Twenty thousand harvesters from the eastern provinces had poured into the country in ten days, and it was on this imported help the farmers depended for the stooking.
All the threshers and harvesters within range were hurrying to give their assistance, but indeed it was little they could do.
What would we of the camp fire, the long trail, the earthy search, we harvesters of herbs the famous chemists require, what would we do in a city?
He lived alone, and never talked of his work; so none of the harvesters of the fields adjoining dreamed of the extent of his reaping.
In the path the owner of the field builds a tiny fire beside which he stands while the harvesters sit in silence.
Eight years ago a boat used to go up the river with every stateroom full, and people piled five and six deep on the cabin floor; and a solid deck-load of immigrants and harvesters down below, into the bargain.
Thus refreshed in the open air, listening to the song of the cigales, the gang of harvesters would take their mid-day rest and gently digest their meal in the shadows of the sheaves.
Harvesters of ideas and of ears of grain, we follow the same calling; the latter produce food for the stomach, the former food for the mind.
Near Ratzeburg, when the master or other person of mark enters the field or passes by it, all the harvesters stop work and march towards him in a body, the men with their scythes in front.
If he delays giving the signal, one of the harvesters will begin to neigh like a horse, the rest imitate him, and then they all go "to see the Horse.
In Finisterre, when the reaping draws near an end, the harvesters cry, "There is the Wolf; we will catch him.
Elsewhere the harvesters all try to seize the last corn cut; he who succeeds in grasping it must crow, and is called Cock.
If he says yes, the harvesters mow some swaths, yelling and screaming, and then ask him for drink-money.
At Kloxin, near Stettin, the harvesters call out to the woman who binds the last sheaf, "You have the Old Man, and must keep him.
The leader or "King" of the harvestersgives the signal for going to sleep.
This Wheat-wolf she carried back at the head of the harvesters to the village, where it was set up on a high place in the parlour of the farm and remained there for a long time.
As late as the first half of the nineteenth century the custom was to tie up the woman herself in pease-straw, and bring her with music to the farmhouse, where the harvesters danced with her till the pease-straw fell off.
The reaper of the last corn is himself called Wolf or the Rye-wolf, if the crop is rye, and in many parts of Mecklenburg he has to support the character by pretending to bite the other harvesters or by howling like a wolf.
M184) In Phrygia the corresponding song, sung by harvesters both at reaping and at threshing, was called Lityerses.
The harvesters there are accustomed to take a noonday nap in the field.
Those harvesters don't trust one another, and it's just as likely as not that one of them would keep a pistol to protect his property from the other.
Bell met none of the harvesters and was not molested in any way.
The other leaves, and then theharvesters continue their merry-making, with singing and farandoles, about a great bonfire in honor of Saint John.
Say to the harvesters to throw down their sickles, bid the shepherds leave their flocks, bid them come to me!
At the end of all, when the last sheaf was carried to the barn and the last gleaner had left the fields, the nuns entertained their harvesters to a mighty feast.
That day, in barley-fields below, the harvesters had known Of evil voices in the air, and heard the small horns blown.
Not only so, but her sheaf is made up into human shape and called the Old Man, and she must carry it home to the farmyard, where the harvesters dance in a circle round her and it.
When the harvesters have nearly finished their task and only a small corner of the field remains to be reaped, the owner takes a handful of wheat tied up in a sheaf.
Sometimes the harvesters call out to the woman who binds the last sheaf, "She has the Baba," or "She is the Baba.
That night the harvesters heard the sound Of a woman sobbing underground, And the voice of the Hill-Troll loud with blame Of the careless singer who told his name.
You would have said that he was a man leading harvesters to his field and distributing work among them.
Intelligence of the massacre, and that the corpses of the harvesters would be conveyed to the Hippodrome for public exposure, having been proclaimed generally through the city, a vast multitude was also assembled at the gate.
Count Corti's eagerness to face the lion in the gallery of the Cynegion had established his reputation in Constantinople for courage; his recent defence of the harvesters raised it yet higher; now his name was on every tongue.
It remains to say that the bodies of the harvesters were viewed as promised.
In the evening the harvesterspass through the fields again, scrape off the exuded opium, and collect it in vessels.
A party of peanut-harvesters are regaling themselves with stewed turnips and tough, underdone pieces of dried liver.
She was that little girl who poured out drink for the harvesters when they came there two years before.
He manufactured beer with germander-leaves, and gave it to theharvesters as cider.
The company consisted of half-a-dozen Irish harvesters “on the spree.
His wife rather pitied me, and said there were half-a-dozen harvesters in the taproom and I might arrange to spend the night with them.
Sometimes the breathlessharvesters stopped to take breath, and putting their sickles under their right arm drank a draught of water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harvesters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
