What is "gleanings"

Usage examples of "gleanings".

But when a spell of four successive days passed with no gleanings to be found and when no birds died, at least not within reach of the starving family, the servant of a rich man came to the tree where the Chars were sleeping, and he carried in a bag a bundle of freshly baked cakes, whose aroma drove the smaller Char children mad with hunger, for they were the kind of cakes Nyuk Moi had often baked, and the servant said bluntly, "My master would consider buying your oldest daughter.

Such latents were easy to overlook in early gleanings, but when detected and brought on as breeders, they often were among the best of their generation, bigger and stronger, longer-lived, producing many fine daughters.

The newcomer was slight, an unusual build for one who had passed sufficient gleanings to reach this age, but her fur was deep red, shading to pale cream on the throat and chest, then overlaid with black stripes on her back and arms, the most striking color pattern Khea had ever seen.

Fik, with several gleanings yet to pass, feared to return with so little, even though she had ridden halfway to Kendd on her search.

The last fold of the outer wrapping, a momentary glitter of gilt embroidery now frayed and threadbare, vanished under the gleanings of the Longner coppices.

Bénezet was sauntering back to the guesthall with his gleanings, when he observed Brother Jerome rounding the box hedge from the garden, head-down and in a hurry.

And might not Bénezet have passed on all his gleanings to Rémy, as he did to you?

They said Belisarius was a delicate sort, who wouldn't let his men enjoy the gleanings of a campaign.

Nyuk Moi cooked the gleanings with a kind of aerated mud, some grass, and a bird that had not been dead too long.