seedtime

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Przedwiośnie (Seedtime in English translation), by Stefan Żeromski.

The 150 inhabitants are at home only at seedtime and harvest; the rest of the year they are away, tending their sheep.

Then he showed that he was ready for a new subject by asking his uncle what the farmer did between seedtime and harvest.

When both work together, wealth is produced, but the seedtime of abstract investigation always precedes the harvest.

By no means: he would go from London to Edinburgh between seedtime and harvest.

The sinner hates the thought; he would that his entire life be a seedtime; but it cannot be.