reaped

Example Sentences

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It was as follows: To the Man Who Gave All, Bore All, and Reaped Nothing but Suffering: I am not worthy to write you, even with the prospect of death before me.

From The Forsaken Inn A Novel by Green, Anna Katharine

His father was successful on exchange, Reaped fortune by a rise in merchandise, Now sent his partner son with Dalton Earl Toward the claspless girdle of the South.

From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry

We have built our own skyscrapers Out of slender metal girders, We have flung our shining cities, Reaped our harvests from the sod....

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold

They called him the god of the earth and air, And his legends were many, and often told; And the priests, with sacrifice and prayer, Reaped a heavy harvest of fruit and gold.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt