First of all, he loitered to watch a reaping-machine at work; then he turned into a lane which led up the hill on which was John ❋ Unknown (2003)
He can dispense with an apple-parer and a reaping-machine. ❋ Various (N/A)
The mauser is not the only reaping-machine the great harvester employs in war time. ❋ Edward P. Lowry (N/A)
The reaping-machine was in sight now; it had stopped on the hillside. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
The dead lanterns swung in the morning air, and from back on the hill came the staccato sounds of a reaping-machine. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
It cannot be denied, however, that when an electric tram swept past her like a terrace under weigh, closely followed by a cart laden with a clanking and horrific reaping-machine, she showed that she possessed powers of observation. ❋ Martin Ross (1903)
Jimmy says it made the men stop work and look at each other, and the man who was driving the reaping-machine got down to see where it wanted oiling. ❋ Various (1898)
Not long after, a reaping-machine was brought and driven back and forth in the field, and down went all the wheat ears before the great knives. ❋ Unknown (1893)
"The reaping-machine will come and cut you down, and other strange things will happen." ❋ Unknown (1893)
There was one wearing a pale pink coat, another in a cream-coloured tight-sleeved gown, another in a petticoat as red as the arms of the reaping-machine; and others, older, in the brown-rough 'wropper' or over-all -- the old-established and most appropriate dress of the field-woman, which the young ones were abandoning. ❋ Unknown (1891)
They, with two others below, formed the revolving Maltese cross of the reaping-machine, which had been brought to the field on the previous evening to be ready for operations this day. ❋ Unknown (1891)
The reason is that, with the thoroughness characteristic of this great reaping-machine, it never fails to take the barn with the mule. ❋ Thomas William Lawson (1891)
You know how prolific the American mind has been in invention; how much civilization has been advanced by the steamboat, the cotton-gin, the sewing-machine, the reaping-machine, the typewriter, the electric light, the telephone, the phonograph. ❋ Woodrow Wilson (1890)
Bronson, Mich., who had just patented a dropper for a reaping-machine, and wanted me to sell County rights for him, and establish agencies. ❋ Unknown (1885)
There was one wearing a pale pink jacket, another in a cream-coloured tight-sleeved gown, another in a petticoat as red as the arms of the reaping-machine; and others, older, in the brown-rough "wropper" or over-all -- the old-established and most appropriate dress of the field-woman, which the young ones were abandoning. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Rockbridge county gave birth to McCormick, the noted inventor of the reaping-machine. ❋ Unknown (1875)
Mr.L. J. McCormick, of reaping-machine fame, had conceived the idea of getting the largest telescope that could be made. ❋ Simon Newcomb (1872)
In place of the horrid yell of the infuriated savage, as he wrenched off the reeking scalp of his victim, the whistle of the locomotive and the pleasant whirr of the reaping-machine is heard; where the death-cry of the painted warrior rang mournfully over the silent prairie, the waving grain is singing in beautiful rhythm as it bows to the summer breeze. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)
Yonder the reaping-machine, with its strange-looking arms revolving like the vast claws of an unearthly monster beating down the grain, goes rapidly round and round in an ever-narrowing circle till the last ears fall. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
