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Along a battered railway in North Shansi, where the year's last tasseled kaoliang still stands unreaped, the biggest, bloodiest battle in a year of China's civil war has just ended.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he looked out over his unreaped acres he could see the wheat heads nodding to the cool morning.

From Time Magazine Archive

In reply to their inquiries, he stated calmly that there were sown fields in Baltimore which he had "worked over and prayed over" whose harvests were "as yet unreaped."

From Time Magazine Archive

The price rises; the unreaped surplus of the districts lying far from markets cannot fill the ensuing demand.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Harvests went unreaped for want of men, and there were no strong horses left for farm-labour.

From Heroes of Modern Europe by Birkhead, Alice