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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The rust has attacked the fields which promised the fairest, and they are left unreaped, to feed the quails and the prairie-hens.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

Again we find it recorded that the corn remained unreaped until after the festival of St. Brigid.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances