Mark Dawes, Staff Reporter www.jamaica-gleaner.com. From Wordnik.com. [From Rasta to Rastafringe] Reference
So she takes upon herself the menial task of a gleaner. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
Otho the gleaner, "I am deeply offended, at which her British majesty must feel grievously distressed.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
The wind is a lover, gently caressing, and a gleaner—sweeping clean the debris and breaking those who will not bend. From Wordnik.com. [When Animals Speak] Reference
Bavaro-Hellenic kingdom of Otho the gleaner, and the three donative powers, informed me that it consisted of charioteers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
In her arms the child bore, like a little gleaner, a great sheaf of graceful golden-rod, as large as her grasp could bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
In doing this she never halted in her running, but stooped over, like some gleaner in a field, urged on by the approach of night. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference
One gleaner from Aix-en-Provence explains that he lives on 90 euros a month: Istarted looking through bins because I was hard-up. From Wordnik.com. [2009 February « Scavenging] Reference
Harvard College, where, however, he had gained renown rather as a gymnast and an oarsman than as a gleaner of more dispersed knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
"Ruth, the gleaner," he at length slowly remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Watch] Reference
Which a shrewd gleaner and quick eye would catch at. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
If I could get him to take hold of my gleaner in New. From Wordnik.com. [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference
Lord of forests unfelled, and not a gleaner of fagots. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
Ask the herder of the plain, ask the gleaner of the grain. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference
He believes in your gleaner, and he knows all about machinery. From Wordnik.com. [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference
The previous class resemble Ruth the gleaner; the latter, Ruth the bride. From Wordnik.com. [Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.] Reference
As a humble gleaner after the editorial scythe, -- or, to be truly modern. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)] Reference
If he could once introduce his gleaner in Venice, he should be a made man. From Wordnik.com. [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference
Thus it is clear that a good eye and a quick hand are essential to a good gleaner. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852] Reference
Right ancient fields are some of them, where yet the ears lie thick for the gleaner. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Wingfold, Curate] Reference
She hides herself once more, ready to bleed a second gleaner should the occasion offer. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
And it was next to impossible that any arrear the most trivial should still remain for a gleaner. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
The Magazine Page-faker and the News-gleaner sat in the same room, the latter at a table next Joan. From Wordnik.com. [To Love] Reference
Aubrey was only a careful gleaner of frequently authentic gossip, but a similar statement is made by. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference
Nevertheless, feeling that such men were dependent on him, this gleaner of ideas exacted certain dues. From Wordnik.com. [Bureaucracy] Reference
He was great in his place, brutal with fist and foot, a gleaner of results from hard men at a hard time. From Wordnik.com. [The U. P. Trail] Reference
It was the camp, of all that I was ever in, which seemed to offer the richest yield to the gleaner of war stories. From Wordnik.com. [A Padre in France] Reference
How Willy meets the young gleaner in the field -- how he pities his misfortunes, and assists to fill his bag with corn. From Wordnik.com. [The Pearl Story Book A Collection of Tales, Original and Selected] Reference
We next find Ruth toiling in the burning sun as a gleaner, and there she meets for the first time the lord of the harvest. From Wordnik.com. [A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies] Reference
He who comforted and blessed the lonely gleaner while the harvest lasted, became her husband when the harvest toil was past. From Wordnik.com. [A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies] Reference
College, where, however, he had gained renown rather as a gymnast and an oarsman than as a gleaner of more dispersed knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
How often, and with what feelings, would she pace the field where, in the situation of a humble gleaner, she first met with Boaz. From Wordnik.com. [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I] Reference
But no, having effected her little revenge, the builder returns to her masonry, the gleaner to her gleaning, with unquenchable zeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
How the young gleaner was much frightened, and how happy he was made -- and how delighted Willy was in doing kind things to the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Pearl Story Book A Collection of Tales, Original and Selected] Reference
For all his self-confidence-self-assurance, perhaps, would be the better word -- he was in reality a follower, not a leader; a gleaner. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Chronicle — Volume 04] Reference
It is a gleaner bringing down her one sheaf of corn to an old watermill, itself mossy and rent, scarcely able to get its stones to turn. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871] Reference
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