Samuel: “David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.” ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)
“The grain is beaten out, commonly in the harvest field, by men, horses, or mules, on a threshing-floor prepared extempore for the purpose, where the ground is firm and dry, and the chaff is separated by winnowing.” — ❋ Unknown (2007)
Isch. Yes, but tell me, Socrates; do you know that if you begin the process from the windward portion (of the threshing-floor), you will find your chaff is carried over the whole area. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Yes, considering the distance,369 the chaff will hardly be carried across the corn into the empty portion of the threshing-floor. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Al. “the outer edge or rim of the threshing-floor.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mahomet may build their tawdry temple on the threshing-floor which ❋ Unknown (2004)
Round a post stuck into the middle of the threshing-floor ran a dozen horses harnessed side by side, so that they formed one long radius. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She ran now down the steps, swishing the air about me, now into the kitchen, now to the threshing-floor, now through the gate, and I could hardly turn my head quickly enough to watch her. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Soon afterwards Masha appeared in the doorway, flushed with the heat of the kitchen and carrying a big black loaf on her shoulder; swaying gracefully under the weight of the bread, she ran across the yard to the threshing-floor, darted over the hurdle, and, wrapt in a cloud of golden chaff, vanished behind the carts. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Battle followed battle, thick as blows upon a threshing-floor, and though we were always said to be victorious, the enemy seemed none the more to run away. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
These came zealously, with speed of leg and wing, from straw-rick, threshing-floor, double hedge, or mixen; and following their tails, the boy slipped through the rick-yard, and tossed a note to Mary with a truly ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
After eight days the corn is trodden out by oxen on a threshing-floor renewed every year. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
They had evidently been planted along the ditch round a threshing-floor. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The next day Lavretsky got up rather early, had a talk with the village bailiff, visited the threshing-floor, ordered the chain to be taken off the yard dog, who only barked a little but did not even come out of his kennel, and returning home, sank into a kind of peaceful torpor, which he did not shake off the whole day. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Hurree Babu had seen all he wanted to see when he sat on the threshing-floor of Ziglaur, twenty miles away as the eagle flies, and forty by road — that is to say, two small dots which one day were just below the snow-line, and the next had moved downward perhaps six inches on the hillside. ❋ Unknown (2003)
We took a look at the threshing-floor, the barn, the corn-stacks, the outhouses, the windmill, the cattle-shed, the vegetables, and the hempfields; everything was, as ❋ Unknown (2003)
A few peasants in empty carts happened to meet us; they were driving from the threshing-floor and singing songs, swaying backwards and forwards, and swinging their legs in the air; but at the sight of our carriage and the bailiff they were suddenly silent, took off their winter caps (it was summer-time) and got up as though waiting for orders. ❋ Unknown (2003)
