Fronting the Ionian gulf there lies an island in the Ceraunian sea, rich in soil, with a harbour on both sides, beneath which lies the sickle, as legend saith — grant me grace, O Muses, not willingly do I tell this tale of olden days — wherewith Cronos pitilessly mutilated his father; but others call it the reaping-hook of Demeter, goddess of the nether world. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There had not been a man on Exmoor fit to work that reaping-hook since the time its owner fell, in the prime of life and strength, before ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
To this bargain she absolutely refused to accede; upon which the fellow catched up the hatchet, and threw down the nail; threatening, at the same time, that if she made any resistance, he would cut her throat with a reaping-hook which he had in his hand. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then he unfolded the paper and reading from it said that Astyages appointed him commander of the Persians; “and now, O Persians,” he continued, “I give you command to come to me each one with a reaping-hook.” ❋ Herodotus (2003)
Like the ear of corn cut down by the reaping-hook, like the young lamb when it feels the deadly steel in its heart, he hung his head and rolled upon the grass without uttering a word. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Head; and there began the harvest in which Mr. Bass was ambitious to place the first reaping-hook. ❋ Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne (N/A)
Ceraunian sea, rich in soil, with a harbour on both sides, beneath which lies the sickle, as legend saith -- grant me grace, O Muses, not willingly do I tell this tale of olden days -- wherewith Cronos pitilessly mutilated his father; but others call it the reaping-hook of Demeter, goddess of the nether world. ❋ Apollonius Rhodius (N/A)
Fronting the Ionian gulf there lies an island in the Ceraunian sea, rich in soil, with a harbour on both sides, beneath which lies the sickle, as legend saith -- grant me grace, O Muses, not willingly do I tell this tale of olden days -- wherewith Cronos pitilessly mutilated his father; but others call it the reaping-hook of Demeter, goddess of the nether world. ❋ Apollonius Rhodius (N/A)
Another writer compares it to 'a reaping-hook, with the point opposite Bukova, the middle of the curve opposite Grivica, the junction of the handle close on to Plevna, and the end of the handle at Krishine. ' ❋ James Samuelson (N/A)
It is almost as pleasant as Luton, where there is a fellow in a blue smock with side-whiskers and a reaping-hook, and Leicester, which consists solely of a windmill and a house where RICHARD III. slept on the night before the Battle of Bosworth Field. ❋ Various (N/A)
Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
It was cosy, indeed, to see at evening the peat-smoke from well-governed and comfortable hearths lingering on the quiet air, to go where you would and find bairns toddling on the braes or singing women bent to the peat-creel and the reaping-hook. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
The harvest -- what there was -- had to be gathered in by women for the most part; and when Maud looked at these going out to their unwonted toil, a baby in one hand and a reaping-hook in the other, and thought of the burden of sorrow they had to carry as well, she reproached herself for weakly yielding to her grief; and yet it was hard to combat sometimes. ❋ Emma Leslie (N/A)
"Ay, look well," said De Vaux in English, "it will be long ere your long jackanape's fingers do such a feat with your fine gilded reaping-hook there." ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)
Nails in the front of a bed ward off elves from women in the straw and from their babes; but to make quite sure it is better to put the smoothing-iron under the bed, and the reaping-hook in the window. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Nails in the front of a bed ward off elves from women "in the straw" and from their babes; but to make quite sure it is better to put the smoothing-iron under the bed, and the reaping-hook in the window. ❋ Unknown (1922)
He it was who foresaw the mighty destiny of this temperate climate, this fructifying sun, these fertile lands lying fallow for the conquest of the plough and reaping-hook. ❋ Mrs. T. P. O (1914)
Sicilian province situated on a tongue of land at the most western part of the island, shaped like a reaping-hook, hence the ancient name Drepanon (reaping-hook). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
