Lexicographical Neighbors of Cropless
Literary usage of Cropless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"... heard the sound with glad rejoicing, though she saw around her a wasting
cropless farm where two years before a score of sturdy men had been at work, ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"The first year they came on the 12th of June and deposited their eggs, and went
away in four days, leaving the country almost totally cropless. ..."
3. The South American Republics by Thomas Cleland Dawson (1904)
"Whichever power should obtain a naval preponderance would surely get the nitrate
territory—a rainless, cropless region where an army must be sustained by ..."
4. The Southern Planter (1843)
"... and cropless farm, and comfortless house, if indeed such a great wind rack of
loose lumber, is worthy the name of ..."
5. Philippine Life in Town and Country by James Alfred LeRoy, James Alfred Le Roy (1907)
"... the small cultivators have been dependent on the large proprietors for advances
of money, or food and seed, if not of both, during the cropless season. ..."
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