hay-harvest

A melancholy morning — because it was nearly time hay-harvest should begin, and instead of that the meadows were likely to be flooded.

Adam Bede 2004

He is glad to see the promise of settled weather now, for getting in the hay, about which the farmers have been fearful; and there is something so healthful in the sharing of a joy that is general and not merely personal, that this thought about the hay-harvest reacts on his state of mind and makes his resolution seem an easier matter.

Adam Bede 2004

During that time you may imagine that the mill did not grow rusty, and when hay-harvest came the rich brother got it, but the other had taken good care not to teach him how to stop it.

The Blue Fairy Book 2003

When his brother saw it, he set his heart on having the mill, and, after some talk, it was agreed that the rich brother was to get it at hay-harvest time, when he was to pay three hundred dollars for it.

East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen

On 2 May, 1916, at a season, therefore, when farmers are generally somewhat exercised as to the coming hay-harvest, and may well wish they had some contrivance -- or knew of some method whereby they could ascertain, at all events, a few days in advance what the weather is going to be, a thought flashed into my mind.

Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

With this object he went at the beginning of the hay-harvest to Audunarstad.

Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Unknown

He was returning from the hay-harvest on those estates which had belonged to his valiant forefather, whose heirs had long been kept out of them for lack of certain documents.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

When hay-harvest came, the rich brother got it, but he was in such a hurry to make it grind that he forgot to learn how to handle it.

East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen

The farmers, who have been shaking their heads at sight of the unmown grass, and predicting a bad hay-harvest, are beginning to brighten up with the weather, and to consult upon the propriety of mowing to-morrow.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

'They promised to come back and see after her when the hay-harvest is over.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale