harvest-field

The country was pretty, with here and there a hill, a harvest-field, a clump of trees or a grove.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

The beautiful glow in the west died out, where the sun had been ripening his harvest-field of sheafy gold and awny cloud; and the pulse of quivering dusk beat slowly, so that a man might seem to count it, or rather a child, who sees such things, which later men lose sight of.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

You could have dropped a squadron into those fields of green and grey and left no more trace than a few coins in a harvest-field.

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

Just then a troop of women came by, carrying their husbands 'dinners to the harvest-field.

The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

And reapers crowd the harvest-field, in man and maiden pride,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Henry Clay, also was compelled to resort to the "school-room and harvest-field to obtain the pecuniary means," etc.etc. etc. The son of the poor widow with seven children "applied himself to the labor of the field with alacrity and diligence;" "and there yet live those who remember to have seen him oftentimes riding his sorry horse, with a rope bridle, no saddle, and a bag of grain."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

American biography is so filled with similar instances, showing how the great characters of her great men acquired their development and strength in the stern gymnasium of poverty, even in "the school-room and harvest-field," that I could fill volumes with the glowing records.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

Tom was set to ditching one day and became muddy and dirty, and the next day he was required to haul manure, his ditching suit had to be used, and if the next day he was called into the harvest-field, he was still obliged to wear his barn-yard suit, and so on to the end.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

Dr. Wood says: "Even worse than this, however, is the fact that the summer between the winter courses is often not spent in study, but in idleness, or, not rarely, in acquiring in the school-room or harvest-field the pecuniary means of spending the subsequent winter in the city."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

It was almost impossible at times to realize that the sun which brightened the Esplanade, and gilded the edge of the rippling waves, was the same sun which was shining upon her father's harvest-field at home, upon the labourers toiling at the sickle, the women binding the sheaves, and the servants briskly moving hither and thither, all as busy as bees throughout the whole of the long summer day.

Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin Lucy Byerley