Two bad harvests having succeeded each other, the foolish inhabitants took it into their heads that the disaster was caused by the innocent seal.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
In the olden times a succession of bad harvests caused sufferings throughout the whole of England.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
For sixty years that old man laboured upon one farm; sixty years of ploughing and sowing, sixty harvests.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies