What is "harvests"

Usage examples of "harvests".

Vernon had also beaten up a black man, one of the migrants, in the orchard called Old Trees, several harvests ago.

We were not welcome in the villages of south-men, so many mouths to feed and nothing to trade, and their harvests have been poor.

Jesse thought of their hardships, feeling guilt because finally his teams were hauling in huge melange harvests, yet he had to pretend to be poor.

The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house.

There had been such harvests as never were before, and the small, three-roomed house was bursting.

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.

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.

It was that dog, your uncle, who enticed me, saying that you had good harvests stored up.

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!

But O-lan he would not allow to work in the fields for he was no longer a poor man, but a man who could hire his labor done if he would, seeing that never had the land given forth such harvests as it had this year.

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.

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 grain markets owed him money and his store-rooms were yet filled full with harvests of the last two years and his houses stood high so that the water was a long way off and he had nothing to fear.

She had taught him to say them to her and he could not say them enough for his own heart, even while he stammered them, he whose speech had all his life been only of planting and of harvests and of sun and rain.

The rains came in season and the wheat sprouted and grew and the year turned to winter and Wang Lung took his harvests to the markets, for he saved his grain until prices were high, and this time he took with him his eldest son.