Meanings of scanty harvest in English

The autograph-fanciers, therefore, will find a scanty harvest when they come to forage after the name of Percival.

The president of Castille travelled through the province with the executioner to wring the scanty harvest from the peasants.

Where the scanty harvest grew.

So little has heretofore been done in this field that it has yielded a very scanty harvest for purposes of general study.

My husband's services were no longer required at B-- ,andhe once more returned to help to gather in our scanty harvest.

My husband's services were no longer required at P-- ,andhe once more returned to help to gather in our scanty harvest.

It seems, however that I was in error; but do not let these villains rejoice too soon; they will reap but a scanty harvest.

But such a singular combination of conditions prevails there, as elsewhere in Russia, that an abundant harvest is often more disastrous than a scanty harvest.

If, however, the tillage is poor, scanty harvests will always result.

Then the poor are trodden down and have to give large parts of their scanty harvests to the rich.

It may be, as has been often experienced in the revolutions of time, but the first of several scanty harvests in succession.

Why need I tell you of our blighted crops and scanty harvests, and all the toil and trouble which we then endured.

The men scarcely ever occupy themselves in husbandry, which they abandon to the women, who plough the flinty fields and gather in the scanty harvests.

Down to 1700, Increase Mather says, most salaries were less than £100, which he thinks "might account for the scanty harvests enjoyed by our farmers."