As the king gave to the lords all real and personal property not carried off, any firing of houses or harvests or hiding of portable things would be punished by putting to death all the inhabitants of the place.
And when it falls, it cares not what it crushes, and the wrecks of it strew our fairest fields, and bury our golden harvests in the dust.
Deucalion and Pyrrha into harvests of feud, into armies of self-exterminating foes.
They fell as thick as harvests beneath hail, Grass before scythes, or corn below the sickle, Proving that trite old truth, that Life's as frail As any other boon for which men stickle.
The art progressed no further because selection was thought to be the fundamental process in improving plants and breeders preferred to work in fields where the harvests were more immediate than in tree-fruits.
It would be hard to find a part of the earth better fitted in soil and climate for sure and abounding harvests of peaches than the Chesapeake peach-belt extending up through Maryland and taking in Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Millions of harvests still to reap; Will God reward, if I die for a creed, Or will He but pity, and sow more seed?
Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull’st soil Without your toil Three harvests more, All greater than your wish.
Kings reap the harveststhat wave on battle-fields.
Seed sown by spears but seldom springs; and harvests reaped thereby, are poisoned by the sickle's edge.
Their labors prepared the ground for the harvests which a younger generation is now permitted to reap.
And so they went back to the farm, where the summer awaited them with overflowing harvests of every thing, and Hetty's hands were so full that very soon she had almost ceased to recollect the life at "The Runs.
Development and strength, gained at such cost, are like harvests springing out of land which had to be burned black with fire before it would yield its increase.
Scythe-bearer, when thy bladeHarvests my flesh, let me be unafraid.
Fields are white andharvests waiting, Who will bear the sheaves away?
Knowing this, that never yet Share of truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow; After hands shall sow the seed, After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow.
Now they had to pay the labourers the wages which they asked, or allow their land to remain untilled, and the harvests to rot upon the fields.
The looms stood silent for want of weavers; the harvests lay rotting on the fields for want of labourers; sheep and oxen wandered half wild over the country because there was no one to tend them.
Now five hundred towns and villages were smoking in ruins; the harvests were destroyed; everywhere there was devastation and ruin.
People of England, ye who toil and groan, Who reap the harvests which are not your own, Who weave the clothes which your oppressors wear, And for your own take the inclement air; Who build warm houses.
Fluctuations in rates of population growth were traceable back to bad harvests and to epidemics and the two were still closely related to each other: "first dirth and then plague".
Harvests were usually plentiful, with the exception of two periods of famine over the country due to weather conditions.
Successive bad harvests and the high price of bread still further aggravated the position.
It is by trade alone, and by free trade, that the inequality of harvests can be corrected," said the minister in the preamble of his decree.
The need was pressing, the harvests were bad; the credit and the able resources of the great financier sufficed for all; the funds went up thirty percent.
He thusharvests five crops and pastures a year or two and applies perhaps four hundred pounds of fertilizer at a cost of $6.
The farmer harvests his crop but once a year; while the merchant plants and harvests every day, or at least every week.
Do you know that Russia regularly practices a three-year rotation and actually harvests only two crops in three years, with one year of green manuring?
When he harvestshis rice, they go one day to help him; and the same if he builds a house, or rebuilds one.
Upon the wings of free trade will be carried the seeds of free government, to be scattered everywhere to grow and ripen into harvests of free peoples in every nation under the sun.
Hence the harvests in those portions of the island are regulated by the two monsoons, the yalla in May and the maha in November; and seed-time is adjusted so as to take advantage of the copious showers which fall at those periods.
As Catalogne phrased the situation in 1712, its lands were 'yielding moderate harvests of grain and vegetables.
Their work did not figure very heavily in the colony's annual balance-sheet of progress with its statistics of acreage newly cleared, homes built and harvests stowed safely away.
I never was more hungry than once while walking in a Charleston mill amid whole harvests of rice.
The owner talked of having it cleared out, and I wished that he might have the luck to find some treasure at the bottom, to repay him for the bad harvests of the last two years, which, owing to want of rain, had been very scanty.
In such of these cultivated portions of the coast as also enjoy the moisture brought by the smaller streams, as they discharge themselves into the sea, the harvests and crops are still more luxuriant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harvests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
