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Example sentences for "unreaped"

Lexicographically close words:
unrealistic; unrealities; unreality; unrealizable; unrealized; unreason; unreasonable; unreasonableness; unreasonably; unreasoned
  1. He catches no gleam of the unreaped golden harvest lying under the feet of the wild mustangs.

  2. They left no humble sheaf unreaped in the clean-cut fields of their work.

  3. In Russia a patch of unreaped corn is left in the field and the ears are knotted together; this is called "the plaiting of the beard of Volos.

  4. The unreaped patch is looked upon as tabooed; and it is believed that if any one meddles with it he will shrivel up, and become twisted like the interwoven ears.

  5. In the North-east of Scotland a few stalks were sometimes left unreaped for the benefit of "the aul' man.

  6. Volos, the beard of, name given to unreaped patches of corn in Russia, vii.

  7. Unsupported and weak, let him wander through fields where the unreaped corn stands in barren plenty, through copses planted by his fathers, through towns built for his use.

  8. Like a few furrows of unreaped corn, which, left standing on a wide field after the rest is gathered to the garner, are swiftly borne down by the winter storm.

  9. The prairie hen soars out of the unreaped barley and drops into the sheltering deeps of the tangled oats, green as emerald.

  10. Again we find it recorded that the corn remained unreaped until after the festival of St. Brigid.

  11. Both had set on their hounds well, both had felt certain of victory, when in the middle of the field there turned up a patch of unreaped spring corn belonging to a peasant.

  12. The price rises; the unreaped surplus of the districts lying far from markets cannot fill the ensuing demand.

  13. The price of grain falls so low that the cost of gathering it is greater than the market value, and it is often left to fall unreaped in the fields.

  14. In Russia it is customary to leave patches of unreaped corn in the fields and to place bread and salt on the ground near them.

  15. In the north-east of Scotland a few stalks were sometimes left unreaped on the field for the benefit of "the aul' man.


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