| 单词 | harvest |
| 例句 | The onion fields on the other side of the road were the most in need of harvest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In the fall, a few brave souls sneak into the woods to harvest apples. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Lolo said that before harvest time, the leaves would grow to the height of a short man. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z We stopped only long enough to sell our scanty harvest to a buy boat along the way and then headed straight for Rass. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They came over the border every year for the potato harvest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She came to the slough not to harvest the useful herbs and berries the way we did, but to collect armfuls of cattails and tall grasses and tuber flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They frowned on murder as a means of harvest; on the other hand, they made little effort to explore the provenance of any one body. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It contains nitrogen he can return to the land along with carbon he’s harvested from the woodlot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z By May, when the strawberry harvest started, she was only a few weeks away from giving birth, so she did not join Papa in the fields picking strawberries for Ito. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "Be welcome, friends, and share this harvest with us." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Spotting a distant harvested cornfield, she flew to a tree at its edge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It would be many months before the rice was harvested and the poor allowed to glean the fallen grain from the bare fields. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Then he mingled with the townspeople and asked them many questions, about their crops, their harvests, the life they led. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z But their efforts were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And out of the gold there was still enough left to feed them until the harvest, if they ate sparingly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Kay says, “I think maybe that scripture is not only about the harvest, but the work it takes to get a harvest, and the patience it takes to wait.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The people and the baboons would work together, all of them helping with the ploughing of the fields and the harvesting of the crops. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Soon it would be time to go to my uncles’ farms for the harvest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The grasses seeded and were harvested by the mice and the winds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Just last week we helped Mama plant collard and mustard green seeds and sweet potatoes to harvest later in the fall and into winter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Early farmers wouldn’t have noticed the difference, in the way that they did notice and selectively harvest big berries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That put an additional pressure on the sugar harvest. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Pigeons, roosting en masse, were easy to harvest, as the Seneca hunt showed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was in the midst of the spring rains, other times after harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The leaves are harvested with a machine that Earthbound designed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A week before the party, they prepared the banquet: half a steer roasted in the courtyard, kidney pie, chicken casserole, various com dishes, eggfruit, and the best harvest wines. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every hand must be needed for the harvest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Private companies would be granted leases to extract minerals and harvest timber, but they would be required to do so in a restrained, intelligent, sustainable way. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “How was I supposed to know all the buyers would be in town for the chick-pea harvest ?” “You knew it,” Yossarian charged. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “We will make full repayment and over after the next harvesting.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Her chief festival, of course, came at the harvest time. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We were not trying for a real wheat crop, but only a harvest of seeds, and it would surely produce that, at least. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Kira left it where it grew and wondered if the women would know that it could be harvested for food. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s delicate and impossible to harvest with machines—you have to pinch them out of the flower by hand. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In the South, many black children were allowed to attend school only a few months each year; from planting time to harvest, they worked long days on the farm. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The man allowed that he was at present setting aside only a tenth of his harvest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In fact, they welcomed the mayhem that emanated from the talking box as if it were a plague of locusts at harvest time. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I felt grand riding atop his horse-drawn wagon when it was piled high with bundles of hay at the end of the harvest. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z And when there was no planting, weeding, or harvesting to be done on the nearby farms, the number swelled to 260, bodies cramming the benches and overloaded desks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A harvest moon would cast shadows forever of a man walking upright, his dog bouncing after him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mott wrote to Stanton, urging her to keep her expectations low: “The convention will not be as large as it otherwise might be, owing to the busy time with the farmers, harvest, etc.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Nuts could be harvested in autumn in prodigious quantities and then stored for the winter in underground storage pits up to six feet deep and six feet wide. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Demeter, goddess of the harvest wealth, was still more the divine sorrowing mother who saw her daughter die each year. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When the hope of a harvest was in sight. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z By contrast, the Americas had no wild maize, and thus no wild maize harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The time of the harvest is here,” she said, “it is time to go to my brothers’ farms. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The tree branches couldn’t still be alive, and it had to use plants that weren’t harvested for another purpose. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z After our harvest that day, Sam and the schoolkids made salads with their fresh-picked lettuce and peas in the kitchen, which we then ate with baked chicken, followed by cupcakes topped with garden berries. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It is a foul task the sheriff has set us to, and I ain't sure why we ain't allowed to harvest the whole lot of them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The temperature requirements for a healthy cotton harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Claire joined in the harvesting at the end of summer, and the rejoicing after. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Now I have to harvest the onions and bake challah and mend this before sundown.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They invented new tools such as stone scythes for harvesting wild wheat, and stone pestles and mortars to grind it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "If the gods are good, they will grant us a warm autumn and bountiful harvests, so we might prepare for the winter to come." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “After we harvest the plankton, the brine is evaporated and the salt is processed for sale. These are the highest salt mountains in the world. People come from all over to admire them.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked strange and terrible in the moonlight both stark naked, with their silver steel glancing under the harvest moon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What happens to the corn plants and the luxuriant branching vines when the grain is harvested, the grapes gathered, and the black frost sets in, killing the fresh green life of the fields? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, hunter-gatherers could move up a mountainside harvesting grain seeds as they matured, instead of being overwhelmed by a concentrated harvest season at a single altitude, where all grains matured simultaneously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There we helped gather the harvest and brought my mother’s share home with us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z People harvested it like hay and fed it to cows; entrepreneurs marketed kudzu cereal, kudzu dog food, and kudzu ketchup. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Wounded men moaned and prayed, faqqa ihan moved among them, the mercy men with their heavy axes, taking a harvest of heads from the dead and dying alike. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In rural areas, schools closed in the spring and fall and ran all summer long, so that children could help out in the busy planting and harvesting seasons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He spoke of how God had been kind to the Scyldings, sending so rich a harvest. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the height of summer, harvest season in the first year of what I have come to call my war with Hrothgar. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you will change your mind after harvest.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The corn had been harvested and now the field was once again empty. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “The harvesting is the worst of it. The idea of it.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats and calves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was considered folklore—that the river monsters even existed, let alone that their pink blood was harvested as an elixir of immortality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I like to call this harvesting, because you can’t really kill the dead, can you? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In addition, once the fire died down, Stone Age entrepreneurs could walk through the smoking remains and harvest charcoaled animals, nuts and tubers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The range of altitudes in the Fertile Crescent meant staggered harvest seasons: plants at higher elevations produced seeds somewhat later than plants at lower elevations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It “didn’t do” to think about—strangers here, harvesting “our” land. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They will give us food from their recent harvest in exchange for our copper, hatchets, swords, and muskets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z At his boys’ camp, Kim works day and night in the fields planting and harvesting rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Egyptian farmers raised a wide variety of fruits and vegetables—harvesting rich vineyards, tending extensive orchards, and producing record amounts of grain for domestic use and for export. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Even with a good harvest on the remaining corn and the hay, we’d never bring in enough to pay off the bank. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z If not for all the wonderful things Grandpa Portman had said about this place, I might’ve wondered if Miss Peregrine had rescued the children just to harvest their organs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z At eight, he thought himself old enough to help with the harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z When that happened, seeds that immediately sprouted grew into plants whose seeds were harvested and planted in the next year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The meager harvests may be enough for subsistence but can rarely be brought to market because farm villages are often hours away on dirt roads from the nearest large town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Patterson had told me that over a hundred years ago, laborers had harvested the granite guts of the quarry to build a bridge between Boston and Cambridge. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z From each harvest we saved, and had gunny sacks full of the husked rice stored away in our small stone-lined granary. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z God didn’t cook the meal, God didn’t harvest the rice, God didn’t grow the broccoli. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In order to feed the world’s insatiable demand for cotton goods, he said, every picker’s daily quota will be increased by a percentage determined by their numbers from the previous harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Comrades,” said Snowball, “it is half-past six and we have a long day before us. Today we begin the hay harvest. But there is another matter that must be attended to first.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z An aura of manic purpose hung over the fields, for in them went forward a gleeful harvest performed by children only just freed from school. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Now, comrades,” cried Snowball, throwing down the paintbrush, “to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The rice farmer isn’t simply planting in the spring and harvesting in the fall. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When we had done, the rice yield was meagre—no more than two measures—all that was left of the year’s harvest and the year’s labour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hurry, get the six best field and harvest mouse archers! Those birds have got to be stopped immediately.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Though Demeter and Dionysus were the happy gods of the harvest, during the winter it was clear that they were altogether different. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, however, we were not going to Fresno to harvest Mr. Sullivan’s vineyards. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But harvest time was a time for work and not for mitote. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo was away, too, in Smyrna for the fig harvest. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We returned from the first day of harvest by the first light of the moon as it came through the portal formed by the black mesas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy doesn’t even stop for church during harvest time, but on Sunday night, I catch him in the dusky hall, between his supper and sleep. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Its flesh is red and dense, and the cloying smell of it fills the forests at harvest time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I'd spent the morning competing with the squirrels for nuts and the slightly warmer afternoon wading in shallow ponds harvesting katniss. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She laid these out and began serving the rice and dhal, generous portions such as we ate at harvest times and ours larger than theirs. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z From those seeds of destruction, we would soon—very soon—harvest our freedom. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Foresters took their axes to the trees in the waning afternoon light to harvest enough wood to see them through the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “That will be attended to. The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In the very southern tip of the country they grew oranges and lemons, which were shipped north to the Royal City during harvest season to be made into lemonade and orange punch. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We harvested a lot of what I grew. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Minli, used to the spare harvests of her village, couldn’t help gaping at the tall mounds of food for sale at the Market of Green Abundance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll have to harvest potatoes without her help this year,” my mother said, and they turned away toward the fields, straw baskets in their arms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They later allowed residents to return to Gnadenhütten to harvest their crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The harvest was in and the pickings were good for quick hands and feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There was a harvest festival there every year at the end of the summer, and Mama sold a lot of onions. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Please, ma’am, the boy Edward who came after harvest to help with the threshing, is he still here? Have you seen aught of him?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The pods had swelled until they were the size of hen’s eggs and ready for harvest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The agricultural economy was based on a seasonal cycle of production, comprising long months of cultivation followed by short peak periods of harvest. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mesoamerica would deserve its place in the human pantheon if its inhabitants had only created maize, in terms of harvest weight the world’s most important crop. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even the wisest man never knew whether his next harvest would be the last. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Some 400,000 English people stopped buying the sugar that slaves grew and harvested. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He painted it in Arles, a harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nobody had ever planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But many of the wild seeds did not immediately sprout, and they yielded no harvest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He has the sugar of his tea spread out on the window-sill, and is reaping quite a harvest of flies. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Again I remember my mother stretching to pick an apple in this orchard, years ago when we came to help the Amity with the harvest. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The rules seemed to relax during the harvest season, and besides, the way was smoothed by a contractor to whom they paid a small percentage of their pay. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z So I really needed to get some in the ground, if only to harvest the new seeds. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Makes us grow in disgusting rows. Lets humans harvest us. Pah! When Gaea is mistress of the world again, we will grow wild, yes!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There’s the natural gas in the fertilizer and the fossil fuel energy it takes to make the pesticides, the diesel used by the tractors, and the fuel needed to harvest, dry, and transport the corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A lovely lump of plutonium so radioactive it gives off 1500 watts of heat, which it uses to harvest 100 watts of electricity. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As we’ve rehearsed dozens of times before, we stream onstage from both wings, shortest to tallest, dancing an indigenous harvest dance. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized what was happening: the harvest festival. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The early harvests were poor, but they soon improved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those big, bright nights of August when the moon has that luminous color of something ready for harvest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad was trying to get all the machinery in working order before harvest. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z You longtime farmers may laugh at my enthusiasm, but I ask you to think back to your first harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z That’s why settlements, and by inference tribes, began to proliferate in the Fertile Crescent at that time, when climate changes and improved technology combined to permit abundant harvests of wild cereals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Carl dropped out of school after the eighth grade and worked twelve to fourteen hours a day on the farm, harvesting with a team of horses, baling hay, milking and feeding the cows. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year’s harvest and eaten them in the night. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In order to win her hand, the devil told him he had to clear an enormous field, plant corn, then harvest it, all in one day. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Joel’s cows were harvesting their own feed: grasses that had grown right there, powered by little more than sunlight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z By the time the apples were harvested, hundreds of ships crammed with expensive British goods crowded the docks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They were jealous of Baba’s carpentry skills, which earned a higher pay than their work of laying bricks, and of how quickly his rice harvest had recovered. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Mary came to the shore, she harvested as many as she could, and now with three pairs of hands and eyes at work, there would be a feast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But these were not field mice or house mice or wood mice or harvest mice. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There is only the constant moan of shamblers, the swing of my sickles as I harvest, the inevitable double thump when the creatures fall to the ground, head rolling one way, body the other. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We grew our own plantains and coconuts, the harvests were good and there was always food in the house—at least a bagful of rice, a little dhal, if no more. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z With the help of the Hitler Youth and BDM, farmers planted more crops and reaped bountiful harvests. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort—for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time—the windmill was finished. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Sometimes he even sold it standing in the field to save himself the trouble of harvesting and threshing to get a little ready cash. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I turned off my lamp and moved aside the limp curtains, thinking of Ned and looking for the big orange harvest moon he’d written of. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The pure gold surface has been designed to resemble the woven horn that we fill at harvest, so there are little ridges and seams to get a decent hold on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Daddy finished the last harvest weeks ago, but the side of the road is still snowy with cotton stuck in the grass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, Nhamo harvested gourds to turn into calabashes and storage pots. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Students sweltered in the desks throughout the North Carolina summer before being released in time for the harvest in September and October. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When the harvest was over in early July they were given a day off for the Strawberry Festival. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Lizzie also grew up on the reservation in Kansas, where she helped to provide for her family, harvesting corn and hauling wood over distances. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As I harvest, I shout out to my fellow combatants. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z John turned away, and looked out over the church, which now seemed like a vast, high field, ready for the harvest. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Maria soon learned that this colony in Surinam existed for a single purpose only: to grow and harvest sugar. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Stands of teosinte have been seen in the wild, but because the “ears” are tiny and constantly shattering they are difficult to harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Moreover, it was the biggest harvest that the farm had ever seen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z So the Goodmans entered into partnerships with growers who knew how to grow, harvest, pack, and distribute large quantities of produce. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But the most important fish harvest came in late spring, when the herring-like alewives swarmed the fast, shallow stream that cut through the village. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But throughout the rest of the old sugar lands, cane was still growing, and slaves were still giving their lives to harvest it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And even if you manage to get a harvest, why, you need roads to take it out! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists seeking a step-by-step guide to the novel science of artificial radioactivity needed to study Lauritsen; those seeking a foreshadowing of the new science’s possible harvest consulted Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Are they getting ready for the harvest festival up that way, or have I already missed it?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The rice crop will do well this year, and the market has gone up. Let’s plan on making a bigger harvest next season.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning they’d pile into the wagon with their unsold harvest and set out on the long journey home. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z John Valentine wanted to take advantage of the big harvest to renegotiate their loan. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z De Vries harvested and planted fifty thousand seeds from the patch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was the start of the growing season, and my father tended the crops through until harvest. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Once Jon thought he saw a pair of glowing eyes on a ledge overhead, as big as harvest moons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Wang Lung answered negligently as one speaks to a man who is scarcely an equal, “Good harvests—good harvests—” and he stepped with assurance inside the gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It involved harvesting everything left on the plants after the first picking, including cotton bulbs, shells, and leaves. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All of the bruises they had collected from moving about the earth—harvesting, cleaning, hoisting, pitching, stooping, kneeling, picking—always with young ones underfoot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When gathering wild grains, they took care to lay aside part of the harvest to sow the fields next season. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A generation later, as wheat plants multiplied and spread, the harvest camp might have lasted for five weeks, then six, and finally it became a permanent village. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “May and I sleep out here sometimes when we’re harvesting honey round the clock,” August said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One cool, damp, mid-December day, on her way home from harvesting another field of carrots, Lupita, who as usual was thinking of Salvador, felt the motion of the truck change. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z During this time the village eats sparingly, mostly from stores of seeds harvested in autumn. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He might as well have let his heart be harvested by doctors. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was autumn, and Laila could make out people in bright tunics on the roofs of mud-brick dwellings laying out the harvest to dry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It’s easy to envision them, two brown bodies curled against each other under a threadbare blanket, both worn out from a hard day’s work in the harvesting fields. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The clothing fit and was of better quality than anything he had ever owned, but it was not what one wore to harvest crops. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung cried out suddenly, “If I had the gold and the silver and the jewels, I would buy land with it, good land, and I would bring forth harvests from the land!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This also makes it possible to harvest them with large machines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His customers, always pressed for money, promised payment after harvest, and then after Christmas, and then after—until at last they forgot it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Because it was Gabriel’s first time harvesting strawberries, Ito asked Papa to show him how to pick. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Lord, I need a bit of income to see me through to harvest,” I explained. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And even then, very rarely did you meet a local crazy enough to go through what you had to go through to harvest a skinny little fish from one of those narrow streams. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And when it’s harvest time, I’ll go to the fair and buy a blue ribbon for the girl who works up at the kennels. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Poisoning your own drinking water, changing the air so much the earth shook and melted and crumbled, harvesting a race for medicine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Constantine came to work in our house at six in the morning, and at harvest time, she came at five. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In this way, our grandparents sold their land and then, forever after, paid the mestizos half their harvest to rent what was once theirs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On both sides of the road we passed endless fields of harvested cotton plants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She knew about harvesting tobacco and butchering a pig, but she’d never heard the words cervix or biopsy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The harvests had been very poor, shop prices were higher than ever. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene in the Fertile Crescent greatly expanded the area of habitats with wild cereals, of which huge crops could be harvested in a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Winter came on and they were prepared against it There had been such harvests as never were before, and the small, three-roomed house was bursting. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They harvested birds for the next hour, and the next hour, until the sun sank low and the remaining birds withdrew to their perches for the night. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I also gave quite a lot of my harvest to the warders, who used to bring satchels to take away their fresh vegetables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No, she thought, not near so many, we have lost men in battle, and others to the harvest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At first they might have camped for four weeks during the harvest. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Too many poor harvests had sent them back East. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z But someone else would harvest the first leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The club’s president held the official title of the Ripper; its members were mainly journalists, who brought to the club’s meetings stories of murder harvested from the city’s streets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After he had harvested the bits that were longest—and farthest away from her claws—Osh spent a moment plowing through her remaining fur, yanking ticks as he found them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Slaves were given long, sharp machetes, which would be their equipment—but for some also their weapons—until the harvest was done. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She asked instead for barley-water flavored with mint, the cooling draught of the reaper at harvest time and also the sacred cup given the worshipers at Eleusis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Today I found the squirrels all over the trees, harvesting them furiously, and so I have decided that ripe or not, I must gather them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z On the last day of January, Lupita came home from seven hours of harvesting cabbages. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Farmers and hands dotted the fields, covered in chaff and moving with the slow weariness that comes from knowing half the day’s harvest was still to come. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He plants the seeds after harvest in late summer for the crop the following year. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In our day the Soviet Union disintegrated after drought caused a series of bad harvests in the 1970s and 1980s, but nobody argues that climate ended Communist rule. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "They feed us a bit extra during harvest, so that people can keep going longer," says Rue. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then when this harvest came he and Ching alone could not harvest it, so great it was, and Wang Lung hired two other men as laborers who lived in the village and they harvested it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When Nathan saw it he was full of admiration, and made much of this one fruit—he who was used to harvesting a field at a time. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z All such mutants promptly sprouted and yielded harvested mutant seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Chester had planted twenty acres in flax and harvested eighty bushels. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Two days later, the major was a shambler with a bullet in his skull and I had my first harvest at ten years old. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In Brazil, when word came that the harvest was about to begin, a priest came to bless the mill—and the workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They don’t grow anything, and it is growing things—preparing, planting, weeding, harvesting, storing—that takes time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Jacob would be with us out in the fields and Ashley staved at home to cook for the harvest crew. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A community that had come together, from seeding to harvest to the bee. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z All languages embody the obsessions of the people who speak them, and so Sasha’s language was meant to reflect the interests of a people whose world was dominated by growing seasons, grains, and harvests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Ten weeks picking strawberries in Santa Maria and another eight weeks harvesting grapes and cotton in Fresno. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one,” began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Lately, every time I talked to Sophie, she looked like she had just eaten some turnips that had been harvested a week too late. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But in small towns like these, people didn’t have horses to spare, especially not with harvest fast approaching. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When all were harvested, she swung the sock over her shoulder and, striding joyously, rounded her pond and plunked the peas in her pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were guests in Winterfell, visitors come for die harvest feast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At Poky, the feed had to be harvested by machine, transported by train, processed in a mill, then trucked to the feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There he was ahead of her, sitting down and harvesting. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z A half a mile east of it were hundreds of acres of strawberries cultivated by Japanese sharecroppers and harvested by people from the camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The next day little Willy began to prepare for the harvest. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I also harvest flowers, fragrant blooms to decorate the palaces, the houses of the nobles on the mainland.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Landowners knew that if they sowed the same crop in the same field year after year, the harvest would be poor. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z They grew quickly and could be harvested within a few months of sowing, a big advantage for incipient farmers still on the borderline between nomadic hunters and settled villagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were peasants who had also been expelled from their hacienda, arriving as humbly as their ancestors of the preceding century to beg the patron to give them work in the coming harvest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he harvested the lead from the old tree trunk. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow she got possession of all the seed-corn and parched it before the men went out for the sowing, so that, of course, there was no harvest at all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish you a good harvest and the joy of the king’s peace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a harvest festival, like those in India, though no one had planned it to be. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the daytime the cows were turned into the high stubble and weeds which had been left by the harvest sickles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After school hours there were the gardens to weed, and the first crop of flax to harvest in the hilly slopes above the town. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It was a holiday to feast on the fruits of the harvest and those of the flesh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Heh-heh-heh—” he called out to his daughter-in-law as she came, “so the harvest is in sight!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Big orange harvest moon in your piece of sky yet? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The newcomers needed to store their harvests for the winter, a task most efficiently accomplished with a communal granary. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I had worked the soil, which is its flesh, and harvested the plants and climbed the trees, which are its hairs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Every town has a harvest festival of some sort, but these days most folk settle for having a bonfire and getting drunk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Yes, after the harvest, everything would be all right. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That year, although the harvest was not the best, there was rice for everyone and, as always, work that could not be avoided. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And he bought three pigs and a flock of fowls to feed on the grains spilled from the harvests. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "If I work for you, and plant and build and harvest for you, and do the work of your dead servants, I would like to taste your brother Suttung’s mead." Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He harvests parts from supply sheds: snips of copper wire, screws, a bent screwdriver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a bare handful of people inside, not surprising as harvest was in full swing and there were still five or six hours of good daylight left. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z True Belle was there, chuckling, competent, stitching by firelight, gardening and harvesting by day. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to harvest these things from the tree, the Apothecary would have had to cut it down. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The harvest was just weeks away, and little Willy was sure that if the crop was a good one, Grandfather would get well. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was subdued by what had occurred, but by afternoon the work of the harvest raised our spirits. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He headed out for the northeast corner, toward the big rows of tall green cornstalks that looked ready to harvest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z On the second day the land widened until all that Ash could see from one horizon to another was spreading golden fields ready for harvest. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If the crop is good, we will have more beets than we can eat; but the object is to harvest the seed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Farming is simply the methodical harvesting of sunlight, using plants as grudging intermediaries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nighttime, and I’d just returned from a two-week trip high into the mountains, where, at about seven years old, I was the youngest person harvesting potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the plant the change is highly disadvantageous, but it facilitates harvest by humans—the grain waits on the stem to be collected. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In it, an infertility doctor secretly harvests extra embryos from one of his patients and uses them to create a colony of clones of the woman’s son, who died young in an accident. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Assuming the crop came on strong, I couldn’t harvest forty acres on my own. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The chief claimed to serve the people by interceding for them with the gods and reciting the ritual formulas required to obtain rain, good harvests, and success in fishing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Babulya said a long, long time ago, everyone had given some of their food and harvest to the high priests in the temple. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And if you listened real hard for the sound of far-off girls laughing as they returned from the saffron harvest, you wouldn’t hear it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I had been told that the crop is harvested by Canucks from Canada who flood over the border at harvest time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He sends studies for paintings to Émile Bernard: haystacks, fishing boats, a row of cottages, a sower with the setting sun, a harvest scene, and washerwomen at a canal with a bridge. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Each day a party went out to check on the well-being of the mighty trees, and to harvest any fallen seedpods. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the cycle of sow / grow / harvest / sow would have selected immediately and unconsciously for the mutants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What use can would-be farmers make of a ton of wheat grains on the stalk, if they have not first figured out how to harvest, husk, and store them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now that the harvest was in, Luke thought Dad might be bored without the pigs to take care of. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Everything they do is with one eye to the spirit. When they plant their yams and manioc, they’re praying. When they harvest, they’re praying. Even when they conceive their children, I think they’re praying.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be another harvest before he could buy that land now, a piece adjoining the one he had, and there was this new mouth in the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The harvesting of the com was, traditionally, the occasion for rejoicing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z High above him the stars glittered and gleamed, and the harvest moon shone golden yellow, the color of ripe corn. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The cotton gin meant bigger cotton yields and the iron tools to harvest it, iron horseshoes for the horses tugging the wagons with iron rims and parts that took it to market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “The rebels planted the seeds of war, let them enjoy their harvest.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Osh handed me a bushel basket and, armed with a pitchfork, began to harvest seaweed from the wrack line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z For many days I had been gathering a few shellfish on the rocks at Coral Cove, but I had been watching the reef and waiting for the right time to harvest. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did the slaves need to This 1875 engraving of a sugar harvest in Louisiana shows the factory near the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This time he took them in a different direction, and they harvested zucchini squash. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She and Charlie could have fed themselves—just one good harvest—one good sugaring—that was all they needed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “The annual light bulb harvest. We had to go quite far up the road before we had enough. Even so, it took two Christmases.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Let us keep our hope for a next harvest.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now the spirits can enter the bodies of the newborn seals and keep them safe until we harvest them again.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not a bad idea. But watermelons take three months to harvest. You and I will both be back in school by the time they’re ready.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It perhaps comes as no surprise that the plant was harvested to extinction by the first century ce. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Well, except to church “harvest parties,” which were just covers for Halloween parties. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The men talk a little more about the harvest, while the two mishu women swat at flies and battle against the wind to smooth their hair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugar work in Hawaii brought the same scene as took place in the Caribbean —the foreman on his horse, the gangs of workers harvesting the cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I worked, too, harvesting maize and fava beans. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z People can and do eat their grain; in the Middle East, for example, the wild barley harvest from a small piece of land can feed a family. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Its term began after harvest and ended before planting time. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rupp property is on a rise, an exposed plateau, from which he could see the harvested, glowing land of River Valley Farm—scenery that occupied him for perhaps an hour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Has it been a bad year, or what? I thought it had been a fine summer and harvest.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z During harvest season the crops from the fields are turned over to the village chief, who then rations the food to the fifty families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This estimate was very roughly corroborated two decades later by the Marquis de Denonville, governor of New France, who destroyed the annual harvest of four adjacent Haudenosaunee villages to deter future attacks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It took little Willy and Searchlight over ten days to complete the harvest. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I pointed with my lips across the fire to Minerva, who was absorbed in chewing through a bag of porcupine quills she’d harvested last week when we ran across its carcass. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I describe the seasons, the land, the wheat and olive harvests, and the Eid celebrations. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z In late June, our original garden-helper crew from Bancroft Elementary joined me for our first harvest, kneeling together in the dirt to tear off lettuce leaves and strip pea pods from their stems. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Women harvested fruit from the gardens of the dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Because the Wampanoag had stopped trading with them, the Pilgrims would not be able to supplement their harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Especially as spring came and the insects began their chains of reproduction; radiators became literally packed with insects, and birds flocked to the moving harvest. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then as quietly as the green had slipped into the time of the river, the golden time of the harvest was completed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once he travelled to a village in order to buy a large rice harvest. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z She harvested all her plants from the little island—leaves, seeds, and roots—leaving nothing to replant in the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands full of harvest, his kitchen shining and bright. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa always said that our soil produced a good harvest of rocks and stones. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sharecroppers could only keep a portion of their harvest and the rest went to the landowner. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the one area not protected by fur, so she figured it would be the best place to harvest some blood. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The full moon of the harvest rose in the east and bathed the llano in its light. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When tens of thousands of city dwellers are brought to the farms to assist with the fall harvest, soldiers monitor them to make sure they do not steal food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I have a fondness for the traditional harvest festivals, superstitions and all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But only to a farm, to work the fields until the harvest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They had very good fields there, and each year they harvested so much grain that their grain bins were full to overflowing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z We started donating a portion of every harvest to Miriam’s Kitchen, a local nonprofit that served the homeless. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I'm glad I'm not growing corn—it would pop before I could harvest it! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Her hands, well calloused from years of harvesting, were stripped of their toughness and became soft in the wash water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She had helped harvest each seed saved in Mama’s seed bag. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The relatives there can send it on to the remaining aunts and their children and, after a good harvest, to the children and grandchildren of my grandfather’s two minor wives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The peaks to the west were lit up and spilling some of the light down their sides and onto our fields, all harvested and turned and ready for the long winter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Here in Maine a great many were French Canadians who came over the border for the harvest season. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was time to harvest the wild rice that grew across from the island in the great sloughs of Kakagon, where Mama’s brother and one of her sisters lived. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Or rather, that I was, but now I’m here in this new world, where nobody puts out ale or milk for an honest fellow, or a loaf of bread come harvest time.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z You may remember Uaaxee, the giantess who entrusted her turnip harvest to me last year. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A man in an alley offered to buy their blood, but his hands and needles were filthy, and his eyes said he wanted to harvest more than their veins. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I may have my differences with the Gantrys, Mr. Peale, but I don’t take to low-down tactics. If you’re amenable, Horace will be here to help you with the harvest. For free.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z "The night of the harvest feast, you dreamed you were Summer in the godswood, didn't you?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We’d already discussed what might happen when the harvest was over. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Frank wasn’t sure how the monsters could tell he was harvesting their favorite food—maybe they just had an excellent sense of smell. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were no harvests of any kind that year and everywhere people starved and were hungry and were angry at what had befallen them yet again. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When they had harvested the most conspicuous and abundant animals of the farm fields, Mole led her to more distant fields. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Mealies were harvested from the field when they were hard and dry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton harvest was looming, so I considered the issue of the short hoe, which still raged through our part of the world. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z All the pickers, except me, had their own sacks and their own rows to harvest. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “How long ago were these harvested? And don’t you dare lie to me!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He struck up at once a harvest thanksgiving hymn, all about crops being “safely gathered in.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He planned to make a demonstration garden, from which we’d gather a harvest for our table and also supply food and seeds to the villagers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the way, they changed the way lettuces were grown, harvested, cleaned, and packed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Then I wish you luck in getting the harvest in this year.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The hosts met on the broad plains of the Reach, amidst golden fields of wheat ripe for harvest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We didn’t even have time to harvest the corn and vegetables we had planted near our huts. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can recapture the harvests the thieves have taken. You can be remembered by the Han people for your dutifulness.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She moved on to how she liked gardening, but hated harvesting the poor little plants, and how she was top in math, but had her grades lowered when she sunbathed naked on the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They dance scenes depicting farmers at work, the harvesting of rice, nurses helping wounded soldiers, and soldiers winning batdes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The small boy who arrived after harvest to help with the threshing, is he still here?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But once he learned to trust us and he became a family member, El Perico wandered around freely in the dilapidated garage where we lived while harvesting Mr. Jacobson’s vineyards. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, after we had run ourselves into the ground harvesting the rest of the honey, Zach showed up with the prettiest notebook—green with rosebuds on the cover. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And he told the Pilgrims to fertilize the soil by burying fish alongside the maize seeds, a traditional native technique for producing a bountiful harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “I was going to the United States to harvest chiles,” he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It looked to be a good harvest this year, though in the way of sharecroppers, they had to pay off the landowner first. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When her body falls to the ground I turn to harvest a large man crawling toward me, his mouth opening and closing without making a sound, his clothing that of a field worker. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was called sharecropping, and it involved black families raising and harvesting crops for white landowners in exchange for a humble place to live and a meager share of the crops. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She thought of the picking, how it raced down the furrows at harvest, the African bodies working as one, as fast as their strength permitted. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When we invented agriculture, we had to take care to plant and harvest our crops in the right season. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We eat well enough when the harvest is good,” I answered him, “but of course we have our lean times.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The only cotton left for us to harvest was la bola, the leftovers from the first picking, which paid one and a half cents a pound. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He bid them welcome in the name of his brother, the King in the North, and asked them to thank the gods old and new for Robb's victories and the bounty of the harvest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Well, I plan on getting some after harvest.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Every day she works in the rice fields, planting and harvesting rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of weeks later, my father met with the other major landholders at the Moose Lodge and declared the cotton harvest date, by far the most important event in our entire county. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z After a week of harvesting carrots in early December, Lupita came home one afternoon and found a letter from her mother. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z For this kind, medicine folk would have to sing certain songs while they harvested the tobacco plants in the mountains. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z After we'd harvested those, we scrounged along inside the fence for probably a mile until we'd filled the bucket with the dandelion greens, stems, and flowers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Lupita glanced behind her and saw her aunt harvesting, never straightening up. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z As the camaradas paddled down the smooth river, they could see the surrounding forest peppered with Brazil’s famous rubber trees, which ranchers harvested for a milky-white sap called latex. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The harvest had been good and the creditors patient. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “That is what the growers pay the young ones who harvest for them.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The sun had just finished burning away the morning dew, and farmers harvesting wheat and barley in the fields looked up as we thundered past. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My mother planted and harvested her own mealies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at the sky and says only the one sentence: “I would go straight on with the harvesting.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Hardly enough for a cash crop, but they were learning, and in another year, after another harvest, they would be experienced old farmers and sugarers, they told each other. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Such harvests as this,” he said, sliding the grains about in his hand, “and you shall not want for anything, beloved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z No one eats teosinte, because it produces too little grain to be worth harvesting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You take the stink bugs out of the tanks with this”—he held up a net—“and when the plankton’s ripe, you harvest it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was summer, dusk, and Dad’s cousins were roughhousing the way they did after a harvest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So now they had two harvests a year instead of one. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This hard work led up to the all-important harvest. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Our harvests had failed again, and it looked as if we were going to lose our lands if we didn’t get some cash quick. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The robust corn in the fields, already two feet high, pointed to an exuberant harvest; with equal force the ruined territory had advertised reckonings to come. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When the harvest time came, and many were wanted all at once, he let them out at any rate which he pleased and made a quantity of money. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In other news, it's seven sols till the harvest, and I still haven't prepared. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you take my harvest so that my children had to eat grass ?” a weeping farmer asked. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “One thing you can be sure of,” the bard said under his breath, “Gwydion isn’t planning a harvest festival. Do you see who’s here?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Then it was even easier to harvest his crop. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We keep all we can that year, and before you know it, we have enough beef to tide us over when the harvest falls short.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z A hired gardener helped them with the harvest. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People have been gathering morels in burned forests forever; Ben mentioned that in Germany long ago people would set forest fires just so they could harvest morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The town was over a hundred miles away, and since the harvest had been a poor one and Selvam was earning very little we had not the money to go by rail. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I checked and double-checked the plants I harvested with my father's pictures. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Forgive me if I hope to put a few of our pumpkins to more practical use. You boys come help us cut the rest of our harvest so we can get them loaded.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In a few months it would be the harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He would plow for me, sixty acres, if twenty of it were his to harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He released his rage at a crowded harvest festival—and this time Rowan couldn’t save anyone, because Goddard kept him by his side as his weapons caddy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You can replant that whole field of corn, tend to it, harvest it, and turn it into food for poor old folks.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was anxious to check up on the button of dead monkey cells that he had harvested from the little flask just before he had gone hunting. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1932 and 1933 it took away the food crop harvest and next season's seed in the Soviet states that produced most of the nation's grain—Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Poachers were even harvesting trout at night, using large electric lamps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the food-acquiring methods of Aboriginal Australians, millet harvesting is perhaps the one most likely to have evolved eventually into crop production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were harvest expenses staring me in the face, along with trying to finish repaying Uncle Chester’s IOU. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But the trees had run wild, and the ground was covered with fruit that was no longer harvested, for the people who once lived here had long since left to find an easier life elsewhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z These must be cut down as they advanced to the attack—a fearful harvesting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I carried a small shovel with which to dig, and she carried a gunny sack in which to gather our magic harvest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The cutters worked brutal, seemingly endless shifts during the harvest—for the hungry mills crushed cane from four in the afternoon to ten the next morning, stopping only in the midday heat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Osh wouldn’t need it until the garden was spent and he was ready to harvest its seed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “She let me drink coffee last harvest,” Chase bragged. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The harvest was Dionysus’ festival, too, when the grapes were brought to the wine-press. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers grab a few harvests, but the soil is not bared to rain and sun long enough to incur permanent damage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in America now convert their harvest into fuel. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He sang of battles and marriages, of funerals and hangings, the whimperings of beaten enemies, of splendid hunts and harvests. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake guessed the harvest would be good enough so the third levy wouldn’t break most families. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It is almost time to go to my uncles’ farms in El Puerto and gather the harvest,” I said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Conch was easy to harvest from the ocean. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z This year for the first time he sold his grain as soon as it was harvested, and when he felt the silver upon his palm he gripped it hard in defiance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His characters escape from Cuba on rafts of sticks and tires, refuse to harvest grapefruit, dream of singing in a rock and roll band in California. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chopped the sugarcane and helped harvest the wheat. Recognized your house as soon as I pulled up.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Spring passed and summer passed into harvest and in the hot autumn sun before winter comes Wang Lung sat where his father had sat against the wall. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He is too busy with the cacao harvest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked about the bees, and how to harvest the honey, and which Batman movie was the best one. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z This made sense in many ways: the labor of working a field that required a lot of plowing was shared, as was the harvest from a fertile field. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “No one else scheduled down here until harvest season when the grain comes down the Mississippi.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Surveying this harvest of shirts and cigarette lighters, expensive machinery and cheap cufflinks, Perry felt elatedly tall— now Mexico, a new chance, a “really living” life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Lupita, who had spent the previous day harvesting asparagus, was enjoying her free time. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Zach said the farmers had planted and harvested their cotton early this year because of the boll weevil. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her friend was overjoyed by the shellfish harvest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So instead of preparing for my harvest, I have to make extra trips to and from the rover to answer their questions. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The world’s sixth most important crop in terms of annual harvest, this large tuber has been fundamental to Amazonian diets for 7,000 years or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many people worked only in winter, harvesting the sugarcane. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It was about last harvest, end o’ September maybe, that we first heard of him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z That’s why people who go looking for them call it mushroom hunting—not harvesting. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Fortunately, harvest time was near, and I consoled myself with the thought of it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the maesters in their Citadel had proclaimed the first of autumn, wise men put away a portion of each harvest . . . though how large a portion was a matter that seemed to require much talk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The slaves worked the rows—with the harvest approaching there was no question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was late in the summer and we were all seated around the kitchen table making our plans to go to El Puerto for the harvest when my mother with strange premonition remembered Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I stopped by the hoop house and harvested a dozen ears of sweet corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In one morning, if the meat was left unguarded, they could fly off with a month’s harvest. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Which meant they lost a month planting their own cotton...which meant their crop didn’t have enough time to mature before it was time to harvest. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The rice was harvested, and the poor were allowed to glean the fields for fallen grain-heads. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z In many ways, the Green Revolution was a tremendous boon; harvests in many poor countries soared so fast that despite burgeoning populations the incidence of hunger fell dramatically. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was compelled to build yet another room to the house to store his harvests in, or they would not have had space to walk in the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She was responsible for the annual flooding and for the bounty of the harvest. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In the evening she harvested small birds, which she gutted, wrapped in clay, and baked in coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The cemetery lies among wheat fields ripe for harvest, fields Vincent had loved. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Planting season would begin again in two moons’ time, and the people now turned their prayers to the next year’s harvest. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The basic idea was one that Elizebeth and her team had often used before, so they knew it was crucial to harvest as many cribs as they could from the South American messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So you plant one seed, and harvest a whole bunch! Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z During this service period, city boys and girls were sent to the country to help farmers plant crops and bring in the harvest. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There was so much walking between the fields, and the strips of land were so small, our harvest wasn’t worth a rotten apple. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z They tended livestock and harvested hay, grain crops, and potatoes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Another time he tried a new variety—Rainiers—that wouldn’t take because he used too much nitrogen: lots of green, plants high and fluffy, but small hard fruit, a piddling harvest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A made-up birthday, a dance after toiling under the harvest moon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In Asgard, three gods sat on their thrones: one-eyed Odin the all-father, red-bearded Thor of the thunders, and handsome Frey of the summer's harvest. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z When he is tired from painting, he draws—a series of the wheat harvest. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Autumn came; the trees flamed scarlet and yellow; the harvest moon was gold. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Cob predicted a third levy tax after the harvests were in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Fierce winters helped drive the Vikings from Greenland and led to bad harvests that exacerbated social tensions in continental Europe, but few would claim that the little ice age caused the Reformation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The next morning Mr. Fitzgibbon started the larger of his two tractors, the huge one he kept in the barn, the one that pulled the combine in the fall harvest. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And we can’t spend hours at the lake, out in the open, harvesting enough vines to eat right now. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Ah, the Harmattan has brought us good fortune again!” he would exclaim when he returned from harvesting rice. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end they finished the harvest in two days’ less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In the afternoon she harvested wild cotton plants to use in her pads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Crops in the ground were harvested as they ripened. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When the soil ran out, when rocks was the biggest harvest, we ate what I shot. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The women in our culture are known for working incredibly hard, juggling so many things—raising the children, working on the farm, harvesting, fetching and chopping firewood, and then cooking dinner for the men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My uncles were farmers, men who took their only truth from the earth, and so by early afternoon we were out in the fields and orchards and the most important thing became the harvest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Moons he said full and yellow as harvest moons her hips thighs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “What would you have me do? The last harvest was meagre; we have nothing saved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “He shrugged his shoulders and chuckled without mirth. ‘What do you think harvesting is? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Still we plant and harvest while the trucks come and go with our crops in order to continue the war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, there was nothing waiting for me on the outskirts of the city except miles upon miles of harvested farmland. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Still another development in eastern and northern Australia was the harvesting of seeds of a wild millet, belonging to the same genus as the broomcorn millet that was a staple of early Chinese agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence avoided pointing out to Sproul that he had planted the seeds of this competition himself, but plainly the harvest was already being reaped at Berkeley’s expense. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But they move the harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues from Arles and hang the baby’s almond tree in the most prominent place in their flat, above the piano in the drawing room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We spent several days gathering white oak acorns and groundnuts, harvesting the blueberry crop and smoking fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the other lords and knights had departed within a day or two of the harvest feast, but the Reeds had stayed to become Bran's constant companions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We have a pitiful harvest of wheat and vegetables from our gardens, but the Indians often bring us food from their own harvests to trade. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The harvest of this upside-down approach to nuclear research now lay before them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He cleared his throat and declared that new Government statistics proved last year's alfalfa harvest had set a record for the decade. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung forgot his son, for the harvests, except what the locusts had consumed, were fair enough and by now he had gained once more what he had spent on the woman Lotus. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There were several makuks of wild rice from the fall’s gathering, though the harvest had been so poor. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z "If word spreads," says the first squirrel, "it could jeopardize our eons-old plan to harvest nuts here on planet Earth." Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She went off to harvest the birdlime traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the fields, where he weeded and harvested from August to October, he snacked on corn, cabbage, and other vegetables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When the harvest was in, goods were hard to transport. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “When I harvest those beans I’m gonna eat those beans myself. Because those are my beans. 1 paid for the seed. 1 bought the gas for the tractor to turn over that earth.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Its leaves harvest sunlight to photosynthesize, so trees compete by shadowing their neighbors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope you are home well before my crop is harvested come August. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z One day in late September, Richard and I are in the field harvesting vegetables. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z This was labor she recognized, she understood the elemental rhythms of planting and harvest, the lessons and imperatives of the shifting seasons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I’d quickly written up a piece about harvest and dutifully sent that in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Kira listened to the Singer’s voice as he sang the serene melody of plentiful harvests and celebratory feasting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On horses they circumnavigated the fields, comparing the progress of the harvest on the two halves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Because it had been the harvest festival, no one had been caught sleeping. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The past two years had delivered extremely harsh winters followed by particularly poor harvests, especially in the South. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Once, on a day when they didn’t have to fly, they helped local peasants to harvest a field full of rye. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One morning August sent Zach and me six miles out in the county to bring in the last of the supers to be harvested. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just about to harvest, so it was a good time for this to happen, I guess. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The broken body of the old man withered more and more, but when the smell of harvest and the hunt came with October, his spirit seemed to quicken his dragging step. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And the harvest was a big one—close to two hundred bushels per acre. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dobzhansky harvested the two cages after four months, he found that the populations had changed dramatically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “They forgot, huh? I’ve heard that before. But I suppose they can harvest squash. What is your name?” he asked Salvador, reaching for a piece of paper. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Planting, weeding, harvesting, making clay pots, cooking, making clothes—it is all for the girls and women to do. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z And again the harvests were good and Wang Lung gathered silver from the selling of his produce and again he hid it in the wall. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There was much trouble over this until Kimki decreed that the work would again be divided—henceforth the men would hunt and the women harvest. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about what Kay said, think: this is me watering the soil, this is me waiting for the harvest. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But we always harvested a good amount for the mule and the pigs and some to set aside for seeds for next year. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he was home, he was usually in the fields all day with Alfonso’s oxen, plowing or planting or harvesting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Two-hundred-year-old pecan trees were commonly chopped down just to make it easier to harvest the nuts on their topmost branches. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The hard labor of spring planting and fall harvesting is followed, like clockwork, by the slower pace of summer and winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Not until May were the men harvesting the best of the crop. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z No, it was worse than the grown-up talk he was used to, because all his parents ever talked about was the corn harvest and bills and the likelihood of frost at the end of May. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Usually the dry season brought the rice harvest, but this year, because of the debils, we were without food. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “And not even in Hay Lane, or the fields about it, could you find a trace of them. I don’t think either summer or harvest, or winter moon, will ever shine on their revels more.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z After a moment, Miss Maggie said, “To harvest plants for his paints,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Tendai knew it would be harvested to mend the roofs of the huts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z What he had witnessed was the harvesting of the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron’s copious output of deuterons and neutrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With careful management, she could live there for years, planting at the beginning of the rainy season and harvesting at its end. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We went to bed early, slept late, ate the mountain harvest, and explored the country alone. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he reveled in broad harvest fields, orange pumpkins, shocked corn, frost-touched grapes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Come harvest I’d be sitting up in the house like some dried up old man while everyone worked themselves to a happy ache by getting the job done. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Stooping and harvesting tomatoes, she tries to settle her nerves by escaping into the safety of memories, when her skin was smooth as milky tea, her hair black as a crow's wing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “People like this thief come and harvest everything so that we will starve to death.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The harvest was good that year in Raynar Northbrook's lands, and they feasted often on the heavy oaken table that sat in his great hall. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They weren’t absolutely at the mercy of their merciless climate any longer; a bad harvest would not starve a whole province, or a bad winter isolate every city. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The onions must be harvested, packed into the rough sacks that Mercy had sewn, and stacked ready to be hauled into Hartford or bartered for goods when a sailing ship came up the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Farmers had finished harvesting their soybeans, milo, and alfalfa and had planted their winter wheat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A mother cries for what she remembers, but she remembers the precious infant harvested already by time, and death is not to blame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides boll weevils, rain is just about the worst thing that can happen at harvest time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Spring came, then summer and fall, and we harvested. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The hoeing, weeding, and harvesting were left to the women and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now this one when he came talked of the land and of the harvest and of the summer drought which would this year divide the harvest by three. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z My father looks at the harvest of caterpillars as if he’s grown them himself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you better hope Clemson’s also willing to help you with the harvest. You won’t find any burners willing to pitch in to help a rancher.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The ripeness of the harvest piled around the mud houses and lent life and color to the songs of the women. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The tournament had been the most magical time of her whole life, and there was so much she had not seen yet, harvest feasts and masked balls and mummer shows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but why do they hate us? How long are we supposed to wait for our harvest?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Perhaps it will be easier harvesting the other things that grow here. Perhaps picking fruit from trees will be more pleasant.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I really didn’t want to sneak into a house and stumble around like the Grim Reaper who had come to harvest Mrs. Dubicki. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z |
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