What is "harvested"

Usage examples of "harvested".

Beans were unavailable, having been harvested and gathered in by the mages the month before, so he used small stones approximately the right size, and pretended to squeeze them.

Ten square meters grows enough for one person's oxygen-for two at full growth-and, harvested, it's made into flour, of course.

Despite the sun's being at high noon, she found herself in the midst of a school of tiny fish that was being harvested by several mammoth denizens.

She used her hatchet to slash and bash a way in front of her and succeeded in reaching clear ground, covered by a stubble of harvested crops, with no further delays.

When the maintenance vehicle reached the planet, it lifted not only the food that had been harvested on its cultivated continents but also all the equipment, vacating their premises to allow the indigenous population to expand as populations had a habit of doing.

Why, if you harvested even one side of this plain, you'd keep every Weyr on Pern in numbweed for the entire Pass.

She harvested the bounty of medicinal plants that grew to luxuriant size and in amazing quantity in the Southern Continent.

Both his left hand and his right eye had been harvested some months back, and the brutality of the past year had ground him down to a shadow of his former self.

Besides, speculation among those slaves with medical training and knowledge held that parts harvested from humans wouldn't survive more than a few weeks before they started to die, though there was no proof of that.

Her organic parts could no longer be harvested in any case, and there was plenty of pure metal here, within easy reach.

The trouble was, it took so damned long to die that way, and if you became so weak that you couldn't get up and work, then you were harvested, and that was tie one form of death here that no one welcomed.

Sometimes, the clackers would display some of the gruesomely harvested parts the next morning.

Half of the other members had been harvested completely, not just trimmed, and in the long months of dying since that time, few had dared raise the subject of escape again.

Jaime had seen at least two dozen trusties crippled and harvested since he'd come to the dig, some for no crime more serious than not responding swiftly enough when a Master rasped out an order.

It was harvested from a nurnan military officer during the initial fighting.