1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller:
The rust has attacked the fields which promised the fairest, and they are left unreaped, to feed the quails and the prairie-hens.
1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished:
So unhealthy is this valley, which is the home of large game, that whole kraals full of people who have tried to cultivate the rich land, have died in it of fever, or fled away leaving their crops unreaped.