Menas, telling him that he was to lie in the harbour, always pretending that he waited for some cargo not yet forthcoming, such as unharvested corn, or whatever was convenient, until we appeared again. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The Torah teaches us this value repeatedly, providing fair business practices (just weights and measures), communal set-asides for the widow, orphan and the stranger, and the commandment to leave the corners of the fields unharvested so that the poor can feed themselves in times of scarcity (pe'ah). ❋ Elissa D. Barrett (2010)
But officials say exports are poised to rebound this year as unharvested trees begin producing again. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A preparatory test ahead of the official examination of the safety of rice in Nihonmatsu, a city about 30 miles west of the stricken power plant, found that a sample of unharvested rice contained 500 becquerels of cesium per kilogram, the maximum permissible level, the Fukushima Prefecture official said. ❋ Yoshio Takahashi (2011)
Finally, he started walking toward the trail to the field for some still-unharvested corn, and I knew now was the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sure, food is wasted starting on the farm: Annually, approximately 7 percent of crops goes unharvested. ❋ Maria Rodale (2011)
Books waiting to be read, as tempting as grapes unharvested and musky, years to be blown off in a second of sudden plucking. . . ❋ Scott Simon (2011)
The Bible itself provides ample examples of laws that modify the unbridled rights of property owners: we are commanded to leave the corners of our fields unharvested, and to harvest our crops but once. ❋ Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson (2012)
Small weeds turned into flowering triffids, couch grass spread out from the paths to colonise the beds, crops went unharvested. ❋ Lia Leendertz (2010)
Finally, he started walking toward the cross-trail to the field for some still unharvested corn, and I knew now was the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)
More than one-third of Florida's Valencia orange crop went unharvested, Regelbrugge said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The larger problem for farmers is that the crackdown will scare away workers, leading to labor shortages that leave unharvested crops rotting in the fields or cause growers to leave the U.S. for Mexico or Central America. ❋ Unknown (2011)
With an estimated 80% of endangered species located on private land, most of the cost has been borne by individual citizens in the form of timber left unharvested, homes left unbuilt and fields unplowed—to say nothing of the legal fees incurred by owners who battle for the right to harvest, build or plow. ❋ Katherine Mangu-Ward (2011)
