8: The verse, however (the slaying of Rhadamanthys), is in Hesiod in the "Great Works" and is as follows: `If a man sow evil, he shall
reap evil increase; if men do to him as he has done, it will be true justice.'
I will
reap your fields before you at the hands of a host; Ye shall glean behind my reapers, for the bread that is lost, And the deer shall be your oxen By a headland untilled, For the Karela, the bitter Karela, Shall leaf where ye build!
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and
reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
When it was growing, and grown, I have observed already how many things I wanted to fence it, secure it, mow or
reap it, cure and carry it home, thrash, part it from the chaff, and save it.
It is Capital and Labour over again, for in literature also we
reap in gladness what others have sown in tears.
to be a poet, and to
reap the success of an apothecary!
These people were not so well clad as the first, whose servants or labourers they seemed to be; for, upon some words he spoke, they went to
reap the corn in the field where I lay.
They sow and
reap here in every season, the ground is always producing, and the fruits ripen throughout the year; so great, so charming is the variety, that the whole region seems a garden laid out and cultivated only to please.
But his good fortune brought about a third event, so that he did not
reap the fruit of his rash choice; because, having his auxiliaries routed at Ravenna, and the Switzers having risen and driven out the conquerors (against all expectation, both his and others), it so came to pass that he did not become prisoner to his enemies, they having fled, nor to his auxiliaries, he having conquered by other arms than theirs.
When its head was knocked off, out came a stream of gold, which the Carpenter quickly picked up and said, "Well, I think thou art altogether contradictory and unreasonable; for when I paid you honor, I
reaped no benefits: but now that I maltreat you I am loaded with an abundance of riches."
"Le temps," as a distinguished Frenchman has said, "est un galant homme." He fosters the spirit of concord and justice, in whose work there is as much glory to be
reaped as in the deeds of arms.
Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davydov family and to the crown serfs- those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodino, Gorki, Shevardino, and Semenovsk had
reaped their harvests and pastured their cattle.