1 I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the harrowing sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.
2 And yet I couldn't believe that they would choose this occasion for a scene--especially for the rather harrowing scene that Gatsby had outlined in the garden.
3 The ploughland was in splendid condition; in a couple of days it would be fit for harrowing and sowing.
4 How he must have loved harrowing them with descriptions of her activities with the store, the mills, the saloon.
5 Never would Edna Pontellier forget the shock with which she heard Madame Ratignolle relating to old Monsieur Farival the harrowing story of one of her accouchements, withholding no intimate detail.
6 "A harrowing old man, Mis'ess Yeobright," said Christian despondingly.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 7 We both jumped up and, a little harrowed myself, I went out into the yard.
8 So saying, he started to conduct his guests across a field which consisted mostly of moleheaps, and in which the party had to pick their way between strips of ploughed land and of harrowed.
9 There was a merry chatter of peasant women over their linen at the pond, and the ring of axes in the yard, where the peasants were repairing ploughs and harrows.
10 But it appeared that the carpenter was repairing the harrows, which ought to have been repaired before Lent.
11 Oh, I meant to tell you yesterday, the harrows want repairing.
12 The horses harnessed to the ploughs and harrows were sleek and fat.
13 Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.
14 In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES