harvestless

In some harvestless dim field where no evening lets fall her mantle; nor sun rises.

Between the Acts 2004

Certainly no reproach to him; he had shared, it seemed, the short commons on which the unfortunate fen-dwellers had had to survive during this harvestless year of oppression.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

'Tis like the sea stretching away for ever in harvestless waves. '

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

Below her the barren moorlands spread away -- 'harvestless as ocean' -- till they met the whitelands of the further fells, where wandering sheep sought their living.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

And, adding to their present misery, the thrifty, provident squaws saw another harvestless summer passing and

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The scene is a tawny desert, once sown to oases of flowers, and billowing grain, and stately palm-tree, and olive-groves, now harvestless, flowerless, palmless.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

We suffer from the miasma of the Indian jungles; we starve with the savages of the harvestless islands; we grow weak with the abused peasants of the Russian steppes, who leave us the legacy of their grippe.

The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men David Starr Jordan 1891

France watered in ceaseless streams the arid, harvestless fields of northern Africa.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873