| 单词 | thresh |
| 例句 | It was my understanding that communists preferred beefy, corn-fed girls with thick ankles and strong backs, all the better for threshing wheat and lugging heavy sacks of rice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Up and down they swayed, thresh and ply. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel should have been rich from his well rig and his threshing machine and his shop, but he had no gift for business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The threshing winds of his temper buffeted the car and deep, resonant warning signals were sent out among the children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the road I saw women winnowing baskets of threshed grain in the wind, the clouds of chaff flying off in the breeze. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They ought to be put to threshing, reaping, and apple picking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Karl says that with this heat, I wrote to my uncle, my grain will be ready to thresh in about two weeks. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was Pa who had got the other men to stack their wheat together and send for the threshing machine, and it was a wonderful machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “The small boy who arrived after harvest to help with the threshing, is he still here?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The thin dog came to him and threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag, and Kino looked down at it and didn’t see it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had caught the patent fever, and year after year the money made by threshing and by smithing was drained off in patents. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I had laid in a huge store of gunnysacks, hoping to fill them all with the threshed grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The millet was reaped with stone knives, piled into haystacks, and threshed to obtain the seeds, which were then stored in skin bags or wooden dishes and finally ground with millstones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Please, ma’am, the boy Edward who came after harvest to help with the threshing, is he still here? Have you seen aught of him?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to duck his threshing fists or at least to make them ineffective, but at last fear overcame her and she tried to run. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “There is the reaping,” I said, “and the threshing and winnowing. How shall we manage when the time comes?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not a bean lost in the threshing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I could now give demonstrations at the state agricultural college on cutting and threshing grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes he even sold it standing in the field to save himself the trouble of harvesting and threshing to get a little ready cash. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Barack was writing what would become The Audacity of Hope—thinking through his beliefs and his vision for the country, threshing them into words on his legal pads late at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On his second day back at school, Shin walked with his class to a camp farm to gather corn straw and haul it to a threshing floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He invented a part of a threshing machine, better, cheaper, and more efficient than any in existence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In a few weeks’ time, my neighbors will come to help thresh my grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The room was full of laborers crowding about and they answered in confusion and haste, “He would work himself at the threshing...” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And all the time while they were waiting they could hear the sharks threshing around in the water below them. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The shimmering wheat fields are desiccated, the once proud threshing machines abandoned. To Get This Artist’s Message, You Have to Look Really Closely 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Teverow: Fonio is harvested by hand with a sickle and is usually threshed manually to separate the grain from the stalk. Is fonio the ancient grain of the future? 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Everywhere we went, we stopped to help women pick chiles or men thresh rice. A Three-Day Trek in the Highlands of Myanmar 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The kind of art all three loved best belonged to that category you might call harvest-healthy; there was a lot of threshing. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z Cyrus McCormack’s threshing machine displaced a quarter of the world’s agricultural workers. Alan Greenspan’s Ode to Creative Destruction 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z She explained that bank barns, common in the area, divide livestock and draft animals on the lower level from the upper level, used for storage and threshing. Journeys: In Iowa, Working to Save Historic Barns 2012-06-01T19:11:06Z He had a demonic sense of humor on "Windowlicker," played tender Satie-indebted piano pieces and threshed elements of jungle, techno, ambient and just about everything else made on synthesizers. Aphex Twin's 'Syro' lines up the faithful at Complex in Glendale 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z I didn’t know that, on a nineteenth-century farm, one might see horses “walking on treadmills that ran machines to compress hay into bundles and to thresh wheat.” The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z After it's threshed, each grain is still coated with an inedible husk. Is fonio the ancient grain of the future? 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Massed together, the curves become a threshing machine, a net, a cave. Dance Review: Pilobolus-Michael Moschen Collaboration at the Joyce 2012-07-20T21:10:31Z He remembers erecting bamboo huts and thatching roofs before joining the nearly 80 families of the village in the fields to thresh rice and sell the grain to pay for the ceremony. Nearly 50 years on, turtles, caterpillars sacrificed in Bali ritual to ensure peace on Earth 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “I made hundreds of drawings — of furnaces, converters, cranes, drills, dredges and compressors, rigs and pumps, rakes, tractors, combines, and old-fashioned threshing machines,” he later recalled. Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z "Yet still the unresting castles thresh / In fullgrown thickness every May" - lines from which poet's paean to spring greenery, "The Trees"? The merry month of May 2012-05-21T09:31:23Z Thomas Jefferson came up with new ways of threshing the fibrous, fast-growing plant. For These New York Farmers, Harvest Time Means High Times 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z In the absence of narrative tension, then, we are left with this thresh of rival perspectives, all generously delivered in the same third-person omniscient. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z People socialize at the tea shops, on the rice threshing floor or at their local temple; they worry about the late onset of the rains and argue about local politics. A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to his old haunts decades later 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z There is to be some imaginative landscaping close to the farm, and the buildings, including threshing barn, stables and cowhouse, are to become a centre for modern art. Country diary: Bruton, Somerset: Historic dairy farm finds its place on the international art scene 2013-02-18T20:59:01Z Back then, you might even find a small rock in your quinoa, which would have been threshed and winnowed by hand. What your organic market doesn’t want you to know: The dark truth about quinoa 2014-04-24T11:50:00Z Lee threatened to sue, but I can’t help but wish the two divas had set aside their differences and come together in song: a thresh of coos and hair extensions. James Gavin’s ‘Is That All There Is?’ reveals a talented but tormented Peggy Lee You might even experiment with grains that are easy to thresh, such as wheat, millet, corn for polenta and hulless oats. You don’t need a large plot to grow a bounty of vegetables and herbs 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z She downloaded the book’s audio version and listened to it as she drove her 25-ton John Deere combine through her fields, reaping, threshing and winnowing hundreds of bushels. Book battles are raging nationwide. A WA library could be nation’s first to close 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Adelaide connects socially with men who work the land as cowboys or on threshing crews. Review | Victor LaValle’s ‘Lone Women’ recasts the American frontier narrative 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The country’s military is rejiggering some of its munitions factories to produce tractors and threshing machines, while also converting some airfields into greenhouses. To Combat Food Shortages, North Korea Deploys the Military 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Kansas’s title defense, which ended with Bill Self unable to coach as he recovers from a heart procedure, included 28 victories before it ran headlong into Arkansas’ threshing machine of athleticism. Arkansas is the king slayer again, dumping Kansas for a Sweet 16 trip 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Time for hay and grain harvesting and threshing was limited because grain and hay were wet with dew and needed to dry. Opinion | Daylight saving time propaganda has harmful effects 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Winter brought the people indoors to weave yarn into fabric, sew clothing, thresh grain, and keep the fires going. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Svosves say their machine - which they share with other families in their community - has made a huge difference, reducing the threshing time to less than an hour. Zimbabwe food crisis: Replacing maize with sorghum and millet 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Even with a decline of that magnitude, that would still leave about 20 million tonnes needing to be threshed and transported from July. Ukraine's embattled farmers running on empty as world faces food crisis 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z One of McCormick’s rivals created the first combine, or machine that reaped and threshed in a single process, but his invention was not perfected until after the Civil War. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On they sweep, with threshing oar in “Vikings: Valhalla,” a sequel to the 2013-20 historical drama. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Law & Order,’ the NBA All-Star Game, the Winter Olympics and more 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Similar advancements in hay mowers, manure spreaders, and threshing machines greatly improved farm production for those who could afford them. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z On a crisp, bright afternoon in early October, Ethan watched his father weld their broken 1980s combine harvester head, which cuts and threshes corn. ‘Once We’re Gone, We’re Not Coming Back’ 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Traditionally in Vietnam, people would grow their own rice and thresh it, some boiling it in a clay or metal pot over a fire of leftover rice straw. The Thrilling Dare of Scorched Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z He was aw-shucks Chuck, and he threshed most of his challengers with ease, often with ads that showed him tugging two mowers across his farm yard in stereo. Opinion | Chuck Grassley favors term limits. Just not for himself. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z On they sweep with threshing oar as “Vikings” returns for a sixth and final season. What’s on TV This Week: Memorial Day, 'Mare of Easttown' and more 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z To Americans with supercomputers, a.k.a. smartphones, in their pockets, the progress from scythes to threshing machines, from hand stitching to sewing machines, and from less to more efficient steelmaking might seem banal. Opinion | Subsidizing America’s most important product: Innovation 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In 1920 the brothers — both active in the Irish rebellion for independence — were arrested by British forces while threshing corn. Opinion | I Brought My Mother Home to Ireland 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z On other hills and mesas metal monsters Proffer broken necks — threshing machines, a score Or more, tokens to combines bankers sponsor, Verses vs. Virus: What These Poets Laureate Are Thankful For 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z One might wonder why entrepreneurs and investors keep lining up for the privilege of being channelled into what has become a vast financial threshing machine. Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Harvesting and processing it is labor-intensive and mostly manual — workers, mostly men and boys, cut it down with sickles, and women thresh it with their feet on straw mats or tarps and then hand-wash it. Is fonio the new quinoa? One chef hopes the tiny West African grain will be. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z In granaries, families hand-cranked large mechanical fans to generate a breeze for threshing their harvest. Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z “Local rains slowed down threshing a bit but this is not a major problem,” Sabaranski said. EU wheat harvest well advanced as heatwave enabled rapid work 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Those who left the group reported brutal rituals, called “threshing floors” in which people were beaten as punishment for sinful actions or to drive out evil spirits. South Korean cult leader who held 400 people captive in Fiji jailed for six years 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Local authorities put an indefinite suspension on threshing in the whole of the Oise department on Thursday, citing the risk of fires and risk to the local population. French region orders harvest standstill after fields burn in heatwave 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z On we sweep with threshing oar: Archaeologists uncover evidence of a “Lost Viking Army” on a new “Nova.” What’s on TV, May 19-25: ‘The Name of the Rose’ and more 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The Talmud refers to it as “threshing inside and winnowing outside.” Can You Prevent Pregnancy with the Pullout Method? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z We saw a pair of finger blades that Eristavi had used to thresh grain. The Culinary Muse of the Caucasus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z "I was on my threshing floor dealing with the stronghold of fear. You all covered and encourage me." Dallas Cowboys legend Michael Irvin announces he is cancer-free after scare 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z On they sweep, with threshing oar in the episode “Wild Way of the Vikings” on a new “Nature.” TV This Week, Feb. 10-16: The Grammys, an Olivia Newton John bio-pic and more 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z But will women in 2019 really so eager to form circles, thresh seeds and communally suckle our relatively infant-nation into a more mature and efficient version of itself? Opinion | Will the new women in Congress embrace bipartisanship — or shun it? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z With threshing oar: The historical drama “Vikings” returns with new episodes. TV This Week, Nov. 25-Dec. 1: 'Dirty John,' 'A Very Nutty Christmas' and more 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z However, once the group arrived, former members claim their passports were confiscated and they were made to work without pay and perform ritual beatings on each other, called “threshing floors”. Shocking video shows pastor beating followers of South Korean cult 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In the cab more than half a dozen screens are pumping out data as the machine reaps, threshes and winnows. Montana farmers keep faith with Trump despite trade pain 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Proceeds from their annual threshing bee stayed in the community when they donated them to neighboring Westside Wesleyan Church. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z A father was forced to hit his son over 100 times and another congregant was beaten so badly during the “threshing ground” ritual he had lasting brain damage, according to local Christian media outlets. South Korean cult leader arrested after stranding 400 followers in Fiji 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z On they sweep, with threshing oar: The historical drama “Vikings” sails in for a fifth season. TV This Week, Nov. 26-Dec. 3: 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' and more 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll. Thousands Submitted Ideas to Our ‘Chasing Genius’ Challenge. These 4 Won 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The law, which also affects other groups like nannies, has contributed to deep exploitation, advocates say, among the mostly immigrant workers in New York who till fields, milk cows and thresh wheat. New York Farmworkers to Argue in State Supreme Court for Right to Organize 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The best cereal crops are those which do not release their seeds until they are deliberately threshed. How to get rid of weeds by crossing them with GM crops 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Steam tractors will be on display on July 21, and the threshing is scheduled for July 22. EXCHANGE: Fundraising under way for historic Amish house 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z I left word with the maid that we were on no account to be disturbed and we sat down to thresh the whole thing out. “I.O.U.” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Maurice showed off his restoration hobby recently as he and his wife, Lucille, held an old-fashioned threshing bee to remove wheat from a field west of their house. Lidgerwood farmer restores antique tractors, combines 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Melchert said people might also be interested to view a threshing separator that the town recently acquired. Manfred, Parshall boast quirky, engaging museums 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z His father is part owner of 65-horsepower steam engine, and Jacob received plenty of an experience making the engine run threshing machines and other farm equipment. Young Lockridge resident pursues steam engine passion 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The Five Point Steam Threshers is a largely informal organization, Mr. Lashaway said, and it considers any able body willing to help thresh the wheat as part of the group. Group’s reunion shows threshing wheat still a hot hobby 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z The B ran the Farmers Valley threshing machine, helped cut oak logs to build a corn crib and a new barn, and pulled 4H kids on hayrides. Man travels from Wisconsin to Mount Rushmore in 1941 tractor 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But at 30-40, he canes an inside-out forehand to leave Murray threshing at thin air. Andy Murray v João Sousa, Madison Keys v Ana Ivanovic: Australian Open 2016 – live! | Les Roopanarine 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z And despite passing through history’s threshing machine with a series of conquering rulers, including kings, emperors, freedom fighters, Gestapo thugs and communist dictators, the artisans are still at it. Glass Beads Made in Czech Village Adorn Bodies of the World’s Tribes 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Soon we’ll all be camped in the fields of primary politics, as that great threshing machine called the American voter methodically separates the contender wheat from the candidate chaff. Revolt of the Politically Incorrect 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z And much political hay will be threshed, bundled and sold to Republican primary voters in the meantime. Republicans’ do-nothingness on guns 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Women used handmade wooden rakes, and after threshing the barley they tossed the results into the wind, letting the chaff blow away and the grain fall back into baskets. Clinic in the Clouds 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But at 30-40, he canes an inside-out forehand to leave Murray threshing at thin air. Andy Murray v João Sousa, Madison Keys v Ana Ivanovic: Australian Open 2016 – live! | Les Roopanarine 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z But Davies says: "I could not have used a lot of the phrases because no-one would know what they mean. "There was one man in the threshing scene who speaks with an Aberdeen accent. Sunset song: Former supermodel takes on Scottish classic - BBC News 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The patient later compared the device to a "threshing machine" in his chest cavity. Inside the 50-year-quest to build a mechanical heart 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The event is billed as North Dakota’s largest threshing exhibition. State’s largest threshing show getting underway in Makoti 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. Go Set a Watchman launch – follow it live 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Q: Does he thresh things out with you? Robert Kennedy Speaks His Mind in 1963 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Because of the attention it has received, “American Sniper” has been fed into the partisan threshing machine. Bleeding red and blue 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The World War II vet has a warehouse filled with treasures that he shows off every year during the annual county threshing show and local parades. 89-year-old Crosby man just keeps going 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z More than 300 operating units will be on hand, from threshing machines to vintage tractors. State’s largest threshing show getting underway in Makoti 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. Go Set a Watchman launch – follow it live 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z On a clear October day, farmer Mike DeWit watched as a giant combine harvester cut and threshed a field of rice plants, discharging the grain into a tractor-pulled wagon. California drought takes bite out of rice harvest 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z It remains the best way to thresh the good and the true from what is not. Charlie Rose and Pope Francis, Not Presidents, Are Best Role Models for CEOs 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The event is billed as North Dakota’s largest threshing show, with more than 300 vintage tractors, combines, threshing machines and other farm machinery. State’s largest threshing show set in Makoti 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Embodying ambient sensations — clopping horse hooves, rhythmic hammer swings, pungent scents of freshly threshed grain — Mr. Skogsbergh’s vivid photographs, like flies on a wall, likewise bear witness to storied lives. A Review of 'Outhouse 2014' in Riverhead, and 'Deconstructing the Sayre Barn' in Southampton 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z If he does, it will spell the end for a collection that spans the 93 years since paper discs were introduced in 1921 and includes samples from fire engines, ambulances and threshing machines. Not everyone will rejoice at the passing of the tax disc 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z "Preliminary investigation information suggests they crossed the 'electric energy thresh hold' of an overhead power line, causing an 'electric arc' to strike both firemen," police said. Kentucky firefighter critical after ice bucket challenge mishap 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z A quick farming lesson: A shock is a bundle of wheat tied together after the harvest and before the threshing, when the edible part of the crop is separated from the chaff. The Pride of Wichita State, Whatever It May Actually Be 2014-03-15T16:51:12Z The show includes a parade on both Saturday and Sunday, as well as threshing displays, an antique tractor pull and an operational saw mill. State’s largest threshing show set in Makoti 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z "Otherwise we keep it and find another way to sell it another time," he says, as a team of oxen threshed golden piles of teff on his farm west of the capital. Chinese Deals Carry Hidden Costs for Poor Nations 2014-01-07T04:13:43Z “The papers say that my great-grandfather bought ‘the threshing floor and the land around it.’ ” Greece’s Tangled Land Ownership Is a Hurdle in Recovery 2013-05-27T01:20:45Z There were half a dozen scrimmages when the goalmouth resembled a human threshing machine but all were at Wrexham's end. Mansfield Town escape Blue Square and head back to charmed circle 2013-04-21T22:00:01Z In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks. Restating the case for modernising smallholder farming 2013-04-15T11:25:00Z Early one summer day, Father carried me on his shoulders over to the threshing floor. Mo Yan: “Bull.” 2012-11-19T05:00:00Z It was an uncommon moment for Mr. King, the firebrand who for the last decade has threshed his opponents like corn through a combine. Tough Tests for Steve King and Other Tea Party Favorites 2012-10-04T19:50:04Z But did that mean 50 feet around the threshing floor or 5,000? Greece’s Tangled Land Ownership Is a Hurdle in Recovery 2013-05-27T01:20:45Z In the early stages, however, the Russian attack seemed like agricultural threshing machines in comparison to the more nimble Brazilians who worked the ball around the court with speed and precision. Volleyball: Russian comeback spoils Brazilian party 2012-08-12T17:08:16Z Fallen trees propped on rocks threshed the current. The Fight Over Fracking in Colorado's North Fork Valley 2012-07-12T23:27:28Z Seven or eight cattle merchants were sitting on their haunches at the edge of the threshing floor when we got there, smoking cigarettes as they waited for the butchers to show up. Mo Yan: “Bull.” 2012-11-19T05:00:00Z Some of the most interesting entries in the accounts are the payments for extra labour at busy seasons, to weed corn, make hay, shear sheep, thresh and winnow. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z From threshing corn, he turns to thresh his brains, For which her Majesty allows him grains; Though ’tis confest, that those who ever saw His poems, think ’em all not worth a straw. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z He has bags with him to put his share in, and when the rice is cut and at once threshed on the field, the half is duly measured and handed over to him. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z All round us were signs of the industry of the villagers in the form of huge stacks of corn freshly reaped, now waiting for the threshing time to begin. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z The grain was first threshed, then thrown from the hands up in the air. Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood 2012-04-13T02:00:19.530Z Then she appears in the granary helping the maltster to thresh and winnow grain. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Along the bank of the River, outside the enclosure, lay quite a village of cottages for the married employees, together with hospital, boathouses, granaries, warehouses, threshing mills, and dairy buildings. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z The corn is threshed upon the straw, and the straw is afterwards burnt off or is ploughed in.' Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z There was no chance to get it threshed. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Only after about 1300 did human interests become sufficiently broadened to make men no longer altogether content with the mere process of threshing over the old straw. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z It is well to feed oats in the bundle, or threshed oats, about a gill to the head, in the feeding-troughs, carried to the field for that purpose. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z They had all sorts of subjects to thresh out together. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z Another party went to a farm on Little Cow Creek where they found three Yana men threshing hayseed in a barn. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z My wheat threshed about eight hundred bushels, and when marketed, the money received was not sufficient to pay current expenses. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Almost breaking myself in two, and you sit there threshing over that old stone pile again! The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z The same is true of patent bridges, reapers, and mowers, of threshing machines, of seeders and planters, of fences, and almost all farming implements. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z He misjudged, fell short and with a grunt and a thud and a threshing went down into the bald rocks that floods had piled in the gully. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z And hers so far affected me that I regretted I had not taken a bolder course, and, showing the photograph to the Colonel, had the whole thing threshed out on the spot. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z I have been so diffuse concerning the present place of Scripture because I ardently desire to see certain of the vexatae quaestiones in Textual Criticism fairly threshed out and settled. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z They shared in their neighborhood joys and griefs, and made common cause at weddings, funerals, threshings, huskings, cider makings, everything. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z "The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks." Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z The boss had gone to tramping again and when he stopped to face her I could see that he had threshed his way around to some sort of a conclusion. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z The antiquities of Persia are also passed over with hardly a remark, as well as many other subjects, which have been "threshed out" by previous writers with more or less of accuracy. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Improved plows, planting, threshing and harvesting machines—in fact, the whole category of labor-saving devices for farming were to be brought into use. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z This paying the rent in kind is going on just now in every village, and the Aghas secure themselves against dishonesty by requiring that the grain shall be threshed on their floors. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Paine was then upon the thresh- old of death, but he did not tremble. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Over the good things at our corner table we did a little threshing on our own account—and got a lot more chaff and no grain. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z Slavery never invented but one machine, and that was a threshing machine in the shape of a whip. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Evening Post:"— "In the month of July I stopped on a march by a threshing floor where they were measuring grain. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z By the banks of Lake Runn, for example, is seen the barn in which Vasa threshed corn in disguise, when still a fugitive from the Danes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z In the threshing of grain, invention has achieved almost as much. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z The thing was therefore to try and satisfy myself practically—by threshing out my subject to as near an approach to certainty as possible. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z After threshing, the wheat was put into sacks and taken to the nearest railroad station. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z As the afternoon wore on, we found ourselves in the melancholy reaches of brown Castilian plain, with the adobe towns, the 383 miserable mud villages, open-air threshing floors, and arid, silent, Oriental look. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z On the instant he will kick and thresh out his heels in the most warlike way. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z A man with a machine will thresh ten times as much as he formerly could with a flail. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z A man threshing acorns to feed his hogs. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Swing′le, the part of the flail which falls on the grain in threshing; Swing′le-tree, Sing′le-tree, the cross-piece of a carriage, plough, &c. to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z High wages paid for threshing in East Prussia, because, the workman during the winter can be employed in very few different kinds of labor, and therefore must earn his entire support by threshing. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z The man who fished him out of an eddy a week later said that Alison looked very much as though he had been put through a threshing mill. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z His instructions were secret, or as secret as anything could be which during a number of weeks had been carefully threshed out in all the leading patriotic clubs. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z I was told that the whole subject had been completely threshed out at a meeting which had been held at the Admiralty on February 23, 1917, about six weeks before America had entered the war. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Threshold, thresh′ōld, n. a piece of wood or stone under the door of a house: door: entrance: the place or point of entering. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z It's a bit rough on you, isn't it," continued the young man, "going round with the threshing machine and sleeping outdoors at that time of life? The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The boys began to hustle, threshing the burs from the nuts, and then scooping the latter into the bags they had brought. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z Granary, gran′ar-i, n. a storehouse for grain or threshed corn. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Now, he stood at attention just within the threshold, and his eyes were not pleasant eyes as he gazed on the threshing, disfigured thing, and recognized in him a kinsman. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Captain Joe was barking and growling and, judging from the commotion in the copse, was evidently threshing about. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z At threshing day, when I worked for the last time at the Mill, I noticed the new tendency in him. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z He flushed to recollect he had disregarded her words and had threshed ahead with his "It's not fair to me—not fair to me, keeping me here doing nothing!" The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z They went frantic, dancing erect, and threshing the air with their fore hoofs. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z For some time he was industriously seen threshing the water as though issuing a call to all the fish in the river to come and have a bite with him. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z Some animal or animals were evidently threshing about in the underbrush. Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp 2011-12-11T03:00:12.153Z In former years, the family had moved into the parlour on threshing day, and an extra woman had been hired to wait on the men who came with the machine. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z A dull, rapid thud, like the sound of men threshing, smote on the balmy air. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z To-morrow they will pull down this rick, thresh the corn, and replenish the empty bin. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z That great splash was surely enough to frighten away any bass that might even have had the hardihood to remain around, after the vigorous threshing of the water by the greenhorn fisherman. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z There won't be no need to wait for a threshing gang, 'cos the tractors will drive the machine we shall buy. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z It was threshed right there on the ground, and sometimes it was sold there; and if he had only been content with moderate success, he might have been living now, and well-to-do. Eunice 2011-12-05T03:00:40.560Z Then follows the threshing of the corn, an operation which is carried on with the primitive simplicity of the patriarchs of old—perhaps on precisely the same lines. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z On the way we met the threshers, and stronger teams hauling the machines towards Crane Valley, for our threshing is done mostly in the field. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Elmer asked himself, for as he looked he suddenly saw the German boy bound up into the air, and start to threshing about with his hands in the wildest kind of way. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z Autumn will see us threshing, and by the time the grain is hauled down to the railway there'll be frosts. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z In a field hard by, a threshing machine was winnowing the Argive grain,—a thing of wonder to the inhabitants, probably an object of suspicion,—the property of a rich land-owner. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z During the night the Devil set fire to the threshing barn. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z The last bushel of grain had been threshed and sold, and the balance of my debt to Lane, with every surcharge his ingenuity could invent, wiped out. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z He pulls down the wheat ear, cuts it off between his teeth, and then threshes it by drawing the heads through his mouth. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z When Murmur Goose-Egg had nearly finished threshing, the enemy broke into the land, and war began. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z According to the Detroit News, “The Cornhuskers of Nebraska chugged along like a well-oiled threshing machine.” Nebraska returns to Michigan Stadium, where its rise to prominence began under Devaney in 1962 2011-11-17T10:43:47Z Erkki carried his cot down to the threshing floor and then when it was dark he shifted it into the hay barn where he slept comfortably all night. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z No," he said, "I will do that with threshed straw, and I will not let full ears waste for nothing. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z The grain falls right into sacks as fast as it is threshed; just as it does in those huge, combined reapers and threshers that you see on our big wheat farms. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z When he had eaten, he was to go to the barn and thresh. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z The matter was threshed over in the first Congress after the Constitution went into effect, and it was decided that the President might remove alone, without the necessity of securing the consent of the senate. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z So the two friends cut the grain and carried the sheaves to the threshing barn where they spread them out to dry. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z A new threshing-machine has been bought at a great expense, and it is put up and started threshing. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Tell him to have the wheat threshed out. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z Then he threshed corn and hay and straw, all together, and it seemed as though a cloud hung over the royal castle. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z And at harvest time he was set to threshing. Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga 2011-11-12T03:00:38.073Z So that night the Devil told Erkki to sleep in the threshing barn. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z It is also used for ploughing land and threshing corn. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Tell him to thresh fifty bushels of rye and send it to Major Summer's distillery, to be made into whiskey. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z Ordinary threshing machines may be used for cleaning the husks from black walnuts, by removing about one-half the teeth, or enough to allow the nuts to pass through without breaking their shells. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z The horses there 31 would cluster together with drooping heads to shade one another, and during the long days of the threshing that mighty silent radiance rained down without mitigation for sixteen hours. Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga 2011-11-12T03:00:38.073Z When it was time to thresh the grain, they asked Osmo, the Bear, to come and help them. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z He seemed to have threshed the pros and cons of the matter well out, mentally, and to have finally decided. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Fields of deep green alfalfa alternate with the waving wheat, and in the fall of the year the harvesting and threshing add new life to the landscape. Rocky Mountain [Colorado] National Park 2011-11-05T02:00:11.333Z Her mind, what little there was of it, was spasmodically and intermittently employed in what she called "threshing out things." Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Then, too, these early beginners did not have the modern machinery either for putting in, harvesting or threshing grain, and this fact was also a large cause for small yields. Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane 2011-10-17T02:00:15.157Z At the time agreed the three animals met at the threshing barn. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z He prays a similar prayer to the pots in which the cooking has been done, to the rack on which the rice was dried, and to the mortar in which it was threshed. Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) 2011-10-15T02:00:25.507Z Chaff, chaf, n. a general name for the husks of corn or other grain as threshed or winnowed: refuse, or worthless matter: light banter, badinage.—v.t. to banter, or tease, by some raillery.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The whole matter was threshed over again and again, long after nothing but chaff was left, during the debates on Benton's expunging resolution. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z The primitive implement for threshing in northern Europe was the stick. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z That, gentlemen, can be threshed out at the trial. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z It behoveth us to have foresight, and to lay up in store for the spring, when the grain is all threshed, and the stackyards are bare, and the poultry have gone to market. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Girls, those apples Will all be basketed before their time, Ere threshing heaps the granary once more And sharp nights make her yield our loft again Because she finds us cuddled on its threshold. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z Jove's flaming car is o'er Olympus driven, And thunders roll along the threshing floors of heaven. Vacation Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:09.897Z Only a few years ago threshing machines were drawn by horses, but of late years they have been moved with self-propelling steam engines, commonly called traction engines. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z "Your sister says justly that they are threshing you as with flails." Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z How frail my body is—how frail And common of its kind; A reed among a field of reeds A-tremble to the wind— The wind that threshes like a flail Until my body bleeds! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z There were so many lives and works that we were going to thresh out together—Francis Thompson's, for one. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Tribulation is God's threshing—not to destroy us, but to get what is good, heavenly, and spiritual in us separated from what is wrong, earthly, and fleshly. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z The most primitive method of threshing grain from the straw was doubtless by beating it with a stick. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z It seems almost like magic to the watching children as acre after acre of waving grain is cut down, bound into sheaves and threshed, almost in the “twinkling of an eye.” Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z He’d leave his threshing in the barn, To thresh his foes he’d very soon larn; With sword in hand he would not parley, But thresh his foes instead of the barley. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z So far the young chief of construction had travelled on the road reflective while the fish-slaughtering matter was getting itself threshed out at the river's edge. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z The image fell upon our enemies who were besieging the Ghetto, and threshed them as it were with flails—they fell before him as thick as flies. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z The ancient Egyptians and Israelites spread out their loosened sheaves upon a circular plot of earth and threshed out the grain by driving oxen back and forth over it. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z There was a great snorting and threshing below. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z And when the older ones spoke thus, the younger, who on account of the winter threshing had not gone to Rossyeni, mounted their horses. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z At the same time he said they would thresh corn or work for a man, but if they were given food, they would be offended, and go away. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z Many nations shall be gathered to defile and look upon Zion, and then the Lord shall give an allowance and commission to his people to arise and thresh, &c. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z At one operation it cuts the grain, threshes it, winnows it, and puts it into bags ready for the market. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z If there was anything of importance to be threshed out for the general welfare of the school, Franklin Sharp, principal of Central High, took the topic up at the Morning Assembly. The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z These had remained at home for the winter threshing; the others, men in the prime of life, had gone to Rossyeni. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Like the Swiss "Servan," both they and the Grogachs have been known to thresh corn or do other work for the farmers. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z Notice that Gideon was afraid to thresh his wheat in the open place, so he was beating out a few sheaves in the hollow where they pressed the grapes. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z It is said that they pull out the straw for the stray grains left in the ear by the threshing machine. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Still, as we lay close to our camp-fires or threshed our arms about to keep warm, we could not keep out of our minds the hope of better days. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Their ploughs were peculiar, and their seasons of sowing, harvesting, threshing, all differed from his every experience. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z I was told at Ballycastle of one man who always laid out at night the bundles of corn he expected the Grogach to thresh, and each morning the appointed task was accomplished. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z They had come when the people were threshing the grain, and intended to steal it. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z This was the situation which called for its regular threshing out in every conference between Colonel Baldwin and his chief of construction. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z We will let these fools thresh away at the walls of the lyc�e. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z In the evening we have time to study logic and to reason, to analyze and to take inventory, to thresh out problems. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z The poor Grogach imagined that he was to thresh the whole, and set to work manfully; but the task was beyond his strength, and in the morning he was found dead. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z There would be a great feast at the time the barley was threshed, and then all the men would go to sleep in the open air on the smooth floor where the threshing was done. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z The Timanyoni Ditch Company was in a rather hazardous condition financially, and the president and Williams rarely met without coming sooner or later to a threshing out of the situation. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z But he liked a listener and he loved to thresh out every question immediately and to put down the contradictor. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Business men who work under high tension all day on business matters, and high tension all evening in threshing over again the business of the day, are almost sure to suffer from insomnia. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z He said these Danes were a persevering people, and that when they were in distress they would thresh corn for the farmers, if food were left out for them. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z She was so glad that the matter was to be taken up and threshed out she could have shouted. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z Sit down again and let's thresh this thing out. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Make way there," Wally now exclaimed, "I've had enough of this--this threshing of empty straw. The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] 2011-07-25T02:00:17.960Z Wheat was threshed and dressed in the most efficient manner. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z He invented and introduced a horse hoe, a grain drill, and a threshing machine. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Nevertheless, 260 no one could have persuaded her not to go on and thresh the matter out with those who had sought to injure her. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z Our hearts kept time with the glad threshing of our wheels on the water, and sang within us, knowing that each ponderous stroke was placing a greater distance between us and our dreaded foes. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z After the rice is dried and threshed, it will be processed, with a $2,200 rice huller Andrus ordered from China. New England farmer experiments with cold-hardy rice in effort to turn wet land into asset 2011-07-18T07:41:27Z He sows and reaps and mows; he threshes the grain on a threshing-floor of his own construction and grinds it in a mill which he has also made. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z He invented a plough and a rotary seed drill, improved his harrows and mills, and made many inquiries relative to the efficacy of ploughs and threshing machines made in England and other parts of Europe. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The causes of the war being thoroughly threshed out, he finally took his reluctant departure. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z The matter was thoroughly threshed out, Billie with difficulty keeping order. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z Suddenly it fell backwards, there was a resounding splash in the quiet sea, and something black was struggling and threshing in a pool of silver water. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z A long summer day disappears, while the student—with all his appliances about him—is resolutely threshing out some minute textual problem. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z If the cleaning of the grain and separating it from the chaff and dirt are not had in the threshing process, separate machines are employed for fanning and screening. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z It was also significant that soon after the meal was over the others seemed to feel they would be excused if they went out to watch the threshing. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z In vain he begged them to let him alone and sleep, but they threshed him and punished him till they wore off the effect of the opiate and saved his life. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z Zebedee said he had no excuse for lingering longer, as he had threshed out the political situation to his own satisfaction and the dissatisfaction of the South Carolina "ring." Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z But in the meantime there has arisen this good out of the calamity,—namely, that men will at last require that the Textual problem shall be fairly threshed out. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z Menzies of Scotland, about the middle of the eighteenth century, was the first to invent a threshing machine. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z "And now, as the result of it, that machine is threshing out I don't know how many thousand bushels of splendid wheat." By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The Mexican situation, too, must be thoroughly threshed out. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z Sometimes in the barn, while overseeing peasants working out their dues in threshing wheat, he would begin to narrate; the men would stop work, and, resting on their flails, listen with lips open in wonderment. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z One of the problems that he tackled was that of threshing grain. The Five Best Inventions of the Founding Fathers 2011-07-03T16:21:23Z Here the statesman threshes out Themes of Philosophic Doubt, While the Laureate scours each shelf For a rhyme to 'Guelph' and 'self.' The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z Leland wondered vaguely how the harvesting and threshing were progressing in his own far distant country, as he leant on the moss-grown wall of the terrace beneath the old house of Barrock-holme. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z If you were to embank Lincolnshire now,—more stoutly against the sea? or strip the peat of Solway, or plant Plinlimmon moors with larch—then, in due hour of year, some amateur reaping and threshing? Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z Then taking up the cart rope, away he went, and coming to the farmer's house, the master was in the barn, and two other men threshing. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z To solve the sanitation problems of threshing grain with horses, Washington built a 16-sided barn, where horses would thresh grain in a circle on the second level of the barn. The Five Best Inventions of the Founding Fathers 2011-07-03T16:21:23Z "If we had threshed that grain, instead of giving it to the sparrows, we might have had fresh wheaten rolls for the children for Christmas," sighed the peasant's wife. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z "O, sir, my wife is a wit," cried the Spartan; "she only meant the good appetite which I always bring with me from the barn, where I have been threshing." The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z "Nay, we reap and thresh by steam in these advanced days." Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z Harriet felt the blanket jerked violently from her and heard a floundering and threshing on all sides that filled her with alarm. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z He threshed the first grain threshed in the county in the fall of that year, for Fiske, on a farm three miles below Stillwater. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Outside stood the goodman by the barn door, threshing. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z I had thought we had so thoroughly threshed out the plan that it would work like a charm; but two months had barely passed before friction started. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z There was one every year when the threshing time was at hand on the text Micah iv. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Some had taken time, scared as they were, to drive in their beasts and bring the grain they had just finished threshing. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z It has two threshing machine and other extensive manufactories. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The four dogs wagged their tails, threshing the floor with them like flails and keeping time to our hilarity; Mrs. Macleod smiled, almost happily, and Marie came in to see what it was all about. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z The Turkish method of threshing is a very remarkable one, very early, I imagine. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z They are as thick together as a swarm of locusts, sir; and as for the prisoners, they are like the chaff of a threshing floor. 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God 2011-05-26T02:00:15.987Z The straw, too, could be used for making baskets and mats after the grain was threshed out of it. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Between the two great doors of the barn there was a great open place so that the wagons could go right through; and that was where they threshed the wheat. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z The moonlit water was dotted with black objects; some threshing with their arms, others silent and motionless. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z We had a Rugby football that winter, and in a field by the river, another of the wide threshing floors, we began to play when the snow melted. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The mare comes round to the score in 2´ 33´´, leading by four lengths, and her driver threshing her already. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The only meerkat bits visible in the melee were wildly threshing tails. So you think you know why animals play... 2011-05-17T16:15:00.220Z From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains, For which Her Majesty allows him grains. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Gans had not been knocked out so much as clawed to pieces by a threshing machine. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z This threshing naturally requires a good deal of space, and it protected the lower part of our football field. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The culture is by horse-power, and the vines are pulled by hand or by means of a bean-harvester, and threshed with a flail or grain thresher. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z “Why, we said some of the fellows were making so much noise that they might have taken a threshing machine out of the garage and not one of us would have heard it.” The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House 2011-04-27T02:00:27.420Z In consequence, the preaching had now to be carried on where formerly there had been threshing; and the seed of the divine word to be turned over on the same threshing-floor with natural corn-seed. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The Englishman took on to consider it, and my heart went threshing my ribs. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z They would either pay him in money for the boy’s services, or allow it when they exchanged labour in threshing time. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z VB's heart leaped as his faith in the rope faltered—but it held, and the stallion, pulled about, lost his footing, floundered, stumbled, went down, and rolled into the shale, feet threshing the air. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z “Are we sinking?” cried Will, who was flat on his back, his legs threshing the air in a helpless fashion. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z The draw, as it began to move, made a noise precisely like an old fashioned threshing machine—a rising howl, which went to her heart like a familiar voice. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z He paid it with a rick of discolored oats that had been cut in the wet and threshed before it was dry. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z This threshing outfit had evidently been consigned to some farmer of the district, and was likely to be unloaded that very day. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z These offers, increasing in price each time as we get nearer the harvest, will come along from now on till the grain is threshed. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z But I crave pardon, gentlemen, for threshing this old straw over again. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Close about the edge of the breakwater ships were rounding hurriedly, and two broken vessels lay against the shore, threshing up and down in the awful grasp of the breakers. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z And apparently he must have gauged his action nicely; for immediately there arose a yell, and a threshing of the water followed; while the agent held on desperately, calling to the others for assistance. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z When the new rice crop has been threshed, a day is fixed for the ceremony. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z When the crop was drawn into the barn and threshed, it yielded eleven and a-half bushels. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z The whir of threshing machines was heard in the valleys of the Alamar rancho, and wagons loaded with baled hay went from the fields like moving hills. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z She had the energy of a steam threshing machine, and affection to correspond. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z At one end of the barn, an enclosure of planks set off the threshing floor from the rest of the building. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z When the hill Kondhs are threshing the crop, strangers may not look on the crop, or speak to them, lest their evil eye should be cast on them. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z When the product was reaped and threshed, it did not yield more than the quantity of seed planted. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z In the darkness the sharp nose of his little boat swung out to the stream, and ten minutes after the message came the boat was threshing a way against the swift river. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z The early threshing and marketing of grains on farms, so that stacks and mows shall not furnish harborage and food for rats. House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 2011-03-12T03:00:26.220Z We found Mr. Alec Thomson with his body half inside the boiler of his threshing engine. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z The crops, after they have been cut, are threshed by hand, and not with the aid of cattle. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z Thus they could last till the spring, when they would be able to earn by threshing and weaving at other people's houses. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Authority to lend to farmers on their threshed grain. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z The heated fair did not know what happened to them, and marvelled how a townsman, who had never threshed, could have such powerful arms. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z Thomson was a bachelor who did a little farming while he was putting in his residence duties on a homestead, but his principal industry and interest in life was in his threshing machine. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z If cattle were used in threshing the crop, it is believed that the earth-god would feel insulted by the dung and urine of the animals. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z But, without food, she was no match for the man at threshing. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z The provision which enables a bank to lend to a farmer on the security of his threshed grain is extensively utilized. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z They threshed the grain with a hickory stick. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z When we had finished with Mr. Keefer he paid us off and told us where we would be sure to get a job threshing. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z One of the weak things of earth, through whom the Omnipotent would yet thresh the nations by the power of His Spirit. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z It is impossible for the physician intelligently to discuss his symptoms with an alcoholic; with a victim of drugs, on the other hand, he can thresh out every detail of the case. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z An ordinary threshing scene in Manitoba, where fields of wheat, oats and barley pay the farmer well. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z They threshed grain with a hickory stick, and made their corn meal by grating the ears across a strip of tin with holes punched in it. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z Perhaps that was why my love-making, indifferently done, taking second place to plowing and sowing, reaping and threshing, had ended so disasterously. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Andrews often pulled cotton and threshed oats and wheat before school. Texas Coach Demands Best, Has Record to Prove It 2011-02-15T02:09:03Z Here are the hewers of wood, the drawers of water, and the old mode of plowing the soil and of threshing the grain. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Seeding frequently starts early in April, and threshing usually lasts through October. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z The men used to thresh the corn with a flail, dress it and clean it, and send it to the mill to be ground into meal. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z We threshed out the ox question a while ago. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Cyril would have interrupted to ask a question about his missing father, as he could not understand why Durgo had not threshed out that important point. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Then they bought agricultural machinery, threshing machines, etc., which they would rent to small farmers in the country who could not purchase such machinery. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z McKibbon threshed 38 bushels wheat to the acre off 40 acres. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z These and a hundred other excited exclamations were borne dimly to Rob's ears as the buckskin threshed about, trying in vain to rid itself of the troublesome boy. The Boy Scouts On The Range 2011-01-27T03:00:45.810Z “I can do with a little groundsel too,” she said, as though the other subject had been threshed out. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Yes, over the new threshing machine he has bought. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z Sally moaned, her head beginning to thresh from side to side on the pillow. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z The first year he got only feed from the crops, but the second year threshed over 2,800 bushels of wheat from 100 acres. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z Time and again we were forced to halt in the lee of a wooded point, where with threshing of arms we drove the sluggish blood back into our numbing finger-tips. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z But ye have turned your faces from song and from dreaming, Ye stirred in the winter and wakened, Your grain was garnered and threshed, yet a hunger filled you. Eidola 2011-01-17T03:00:49.097Z He was singing the praise of the before-mentioned threshing machine, and you were listening attentively. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z Oh God, that man should spoil and rust on the stalk, and be wilted and threshed ere the harvest hath come! Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z I usually thresh from 60 to 65 bushels of oats, 30 of wheat, and 60 of barley. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z Here they trod the grapes; in the autumn and winter months they threshed corn. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z She first taught mankind the use of the plough; she helped the men in their threshing and the women in their baking. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z He distinctly remembers an old threshing machine that stood at that place for a long time and that was left there by some of the members of the party that were killed. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z His virtues were equally portentous because they worked on the grand scale, with materials that had been threshed and winnowed in the theory and experience of five generations of mankind. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Spring opened favourably for seeding operations and at no time from seeding to threshing did unfavourable conditions threaten a successful harvest. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z They were threshing under the barn in the old style. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z To look after the manure, and the planting, and the ploughing and threshing,—curse it! it's slow work, and I am too good for it! The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Aside from farming and threshing I put in some of the time at carpentry, walking sometimes six miles back and forth, night and morning. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The threshing machine had been singing its autumn song for many a day. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Copious rains in the growing period, and bright dry weather in the cutting and threshing period kept the farmer confident from the beginning. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z All laborious employments, such as directing the plough, threshing, cutting and hewing of wood, &c. render the blood thick, and the limbs stiff. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Joe took counsel with his foremen, and they threshed the matter out one night sitting around the fire. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z In those days the accepted policy was that if you threshed your adversary soundly, the controversy was settled—there was no further argument about it. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Thus she dreamed to the accompaniment of the threshing machine. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The mean temperature in October was only 34.40 Fahrenheit, but threshing can be done in cold weather as readily as in warm, with no injurious effects. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z After threshing, they sift the corn through a large cribble, which retains not only the grain and chaff, but not unfrequently a small quantity of straw. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The examination had been held, and I had received, as Berger called it, license to thresh empty straw. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z He would not bind and thresh his chance-grown wheat, Nor bring his wild fruit to the common vat, To store the acid rinsings, thin and flat, Squeezed from the press or trodden under feet. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z In the long journey home, Jill had threshed out in this fashion the pros and cons of Woman's Suffrage with McTaggart; and needless to say the man had approved the conclusion she reached at last. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z The grain crop of 1913 was harvested and threshed in perfect condition. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z At all festivals, at the pardons, wedding feasts and threshing dances, the two traditional musicians or sonneurs give out in shrill penetrating tones the ancient Breton rondes4 and melodies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Much work and no thanks; early rising, and, in return, late retiring; all day threshing corn, like the good-natured beast in the Bible, but no privileges granted, as there recorded--who can stand that? Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Hens which had laid no eggs before that day were threshed with a flail, as being good for nothing. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z I remembered a Tower, with a horse-gin threshing at an adjacent farm. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The weather made it possible to harvest and thresh in the minimum of time, and in some cases permitted a start on fall ploughing early in September, in many parts continuing until December 1st. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z With this one-third-acre plot, planted with two test varieties, reaped by hand and threshed in the days to follow by schoolchildren, the job would be finished. | From the Farm: Unlikely Harvest for 2 Young Farmers 2010-07-31T00:52:00Z That was the nickname out-of-work farm labourers gave to the hand threshing flail that had been replaced by the new machines, robbing them of a livelihood at a time when food prices were soaring. The thrill of the count 2010-04-23T15:01:00Z When I was 10, my father lent me to a neighbor to thresh wheat. The Boss: Educator to the World 2010-02-20T23:07:00Z The ship passed on overhead, and the threshing sound passed with her and faded until again the steady purr of motors remained the only reminder of the fact that the boat was diving. H.M.S. —— “It seems kinder queer, though, that a couple of little threshings like that should make her crazy,” said Crisp. Zula "Don't you know how we threshed out all the ways and means when...?" Capricious Caroline "You know that so long as I sit on the Liberal bench, thresh my own straw, and can prove that man was first created a baron, my happiness is assured." The Undying Past At harvest time they remain hidden among the husks, and are often threshed out in large numbers by the blows of the flail. Butterflies and Moths (British) From the starboard hand there came a faint murmur, which grew till the regular threshing beat of a propeller could be distinguished. H.M.S. —— “What would you give if I was to let you go without any more such threshings?” he asked. Zula I could hear the cat go threshing down through the limbs on the trees and the dogs doubled their howling and I could hear the men laugh. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. Wheat was raised without any great degree of care as to its culture, being frequently sowed upon ground that was poorly prepared, and being threshed in a most wasteful manner. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 I whistled the blue-jay note, which means "Come," and Jonathan came threshing through the brush, having left his rod. The Jonathan Papers At the conclusion of the recital he was wild, and moved about threshing the air with his fists. The Man from Jericho Only in the twilight she would sometimes stand idle, and look away across the court-yard, and listen to the measured sound of the threshing that came across from the barn. A Sister's Love A Novel We slept in the open air on the straw of a barn where the wheat is threshed out by oxen and horses. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Its backbone should be the study of biology and its substance should be the threshing out of the burning questions of our day. The Salvaging Of Civilisation Sometimes he weeded the garden or threshed the corn. The Land of Lost Toys Hewing wood, hay-making, threshing, and other work which belongs more to men than women, were not too much for her. The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. He had threshed it all out last night. Sinister Street, vol. 2 We've threshed that straw all over long 'go, 'n' don't say no more. Rockhaven But it was noised around that he had threshed out nearly two thousand bushels of oats, and this redeemed his standing. A Yankee from the West A Novel They were threshing over the campaigns of the war between the States and measuring the calibre of commanders as a backwoods man might estimate the girth and footage of timber. The Tempering He was shown into a large barn, where he threw himself down on the freshly threshed straw. The Children of the World She then carried it to the favorite resort of the sparrows, and actually threshed the corn out, by beating it on the wall, then hiding herself. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom They increase the labor of threshing, and make cleaning of seed difficult. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 If it were the straw of wild oats three times threshed, it would still hold more value than the chaff that blows about in your empty skull. A Yankee from the West A Novel I don't know," he replied, "but if it did, there won't be any threshing this year. The Land of Strong Men The atmosphere seemed to vibrate with it as it does on a still summer day when a threshing machine is buzzing away in a distant field. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship "I will follow the liar to the world's end!" said Ramon between his teeth, furiously, and he threshed through the tangle as an elephant charges through young jungle. The Firebrand Atriplex patula L. Seeds are likely to occur in either of three different guises, depending upon the degree of their ripeness or the amount of threshing to which they have been subjected. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 And then abruptly the threshing figures were still as the second man pressed the blade of a flint knife against the other's thinly clad back. The Return of Tharn He knew as he looked at the flattened ruin that there would be no threshing. The Land of Strong Men ‘Oh, my threshings, and the corn of my floor!’ Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus What happened after that is not very clear, even when the subject has been repeatedly and exhaustively threshed out by the persons most immediately concerned. The Firebrand Chenopodium album L. Seeds are likely to occur in either of three different guises dependent upon the degree of their ripeness or the amount of threshing to which they have been subjected. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 A threshing floor is turned into an official arena, a set of mat-sheds are put up, and the whole village soon swarms with yamên-runners. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The heads themselves were threshed by the icy flail of the storm. The Land of Strong Men But, for the most part, they held not with innovations; plowed, sowed and reaped as their fathers did, threshing with oxen or goats. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus God had given her to a rough old fellow like him, one who had endured the trampling of the threshing floor as the car oxen drave round. The Firebrand Seeds are likely to occur in either of three different guises depending upon the degree their ripeness or the amount of threshing to which they have been subjected. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 The region was hilly and he soon lost sight of Lannes, but he threshed up the wood, thoroughly. The Guns of Europe He, poor fool, fancied that all was over because his infernal wife had threshed around a bit and gone off clutching poor little Mary's hat—a funny thing in itself. In And Out Grain was threshed by being laid on smooth earthen threshing-floors, in the open air, and having horses, donkeys, cattle, and sheep driven over it for hours. Campmates A Story of the Plains For two hundred miles of our run the smoke of the threshing machines rose in the clear sky. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway See that threshing machines, hay racks, grain bags from other farms are well cleaned before used on the farm. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 When next the twain met, Captain Short was first well threshed, then bundled off to prison, and from there skipped home to England in a merchantman. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Improvements in agricultural implements, such as the plough and the threshing machine, economy in the use of horses employed in husbandry, and a better knowledge of the veterinary art, are of this nature. On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation Apart from losing the chance to thresh it out with you two, I have never been on more fascinatingly interesting geological ground. The King of Arcadia We made another stop to watch at close range the operations of a threshing machine. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway If well rubbed after threshing, the floret is nearly smooth, otherwise it contains on the lower half numerous webby hairs. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 Among the inventions of the McCormick family were threshing machines, hydraulic machines, a hemp-brake, blacksmith’s bellows, and self-stoppers for grist mills. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia On Monday the whole matter should be threshed out and the guilty brought to justice. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle If threshed by hand after about a month it had to be gathered and taken to the barn for further drying. Frying Pan Farm One of the men told us that they had threshed fourteen hundred bushels the day before, working fourteen hours in fine, clear weather. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway New truths, like sheaves of grain, must be well threshed by the flail of persecution, and winnowed by the wind of criticism, to separate the pure wheat from the straw and chaff. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation The soldier who threshes wildly about the field, however fiercely and courageously, is not the one to contribute to the victory. The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation And then there was such a floundering and threshing in the water as I had never before seen. Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 In the 1920s, however, only a few farmers still wielded the flail; most threshing was done by steam and later gas-powered threshing machines which travelled from farm to farm. Frying Pan Farm In an intricate wood like this, it seems as if you could no longer imagine that men ever sow grain, and reap, and thresh, and grind, and bake. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. The corn had been gathered, and these men were engaged in threshing it out. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. All the rye to chaff was pounded, Into very chaff he'd threshed it. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two Close about the edge of the breakwater, ships were rounding hurriedly, and two broken vessels lay against the shore, threshing up and down in the awful grasp of the breakers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 We had to haul up some wood to fire the engine before we threshed.... Frying Pan Farm She was now close-hauled, and she began to thresh out to windward with a fearful bellowing of the wind out of the straining main-topsail. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 The whole process would have surprised a Genesee farmer; but perhaps, where labour was so little costly, it answered as well as the best threshing machine that could be invented. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. V�in�m�inen, old and steadfast, Answered in the words that follow: "There is need to thresh the water, With a long pole to disturb it." Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two Instead of leaving the sheaves in the barn that the grain may ripen, this wheat that you see there, and that was cropped only to-day, will be threshed this very night. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century All hands ran up there and pulled the thresher out of the way and saved the wheat that was threshed, but the straw burned up. Frying Pan Farm The first successful effort to produce a machine to take the place of the flail and threshing floor for threshing wheat from the straw had its start in this same town. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia The parallel sticks served as a threshing floor, on which was spread a thick layer of corn. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. Old and prudent V�in�m�inen Answered in the words which follow: 170 "If you thresh as hard as needful, You will have to do much threshing." Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two "They will be welcome; they will assist us at the threshing to-night." The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century Girls also helped with the dishes, fed chickens, and cooked while boys tackled plowing, threshing and animal husbandry. Frying Pan Farm He felt his fingers slipping inexorably over the edge of the log he had gripped; his legs threshed up a welter of foam, but he kept going down. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 God puts aside the iron, and takes up the worm to thresh the mountain. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Kullervo, Kalervo's offspring, Set himself to do the threshing, And the rye to chaff he pounded, Into very chaff he threshed it. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two The night is clear, we shall thresh the wheat on the outside floor. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century They were about to take the grain that had been threshed out on rainy days to market. Landolin With a sobbing roar of pain and fury, he lashed round for the foot-high figure that dodged and wheeled and zig-zagged to keep from his threshing arms and his hands. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 There is a mountain to be threshed; there lies a bar of iron, and a little weak worm. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Into soup he churned the water, Into tow he threshed the drag-net, Into slime he crushed the fishes. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two Calcutta smells still, but We must listen to all that he has to say about the plurality of votes and the threshing of wind and the weaving of ropes of sand. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel To-day, the day of his wife's funeral, they still keep on threshing? Landolin For the girls alone they have swimming parties and visiting parties; and they help one another during haying and threshing. The American Country Girl He was even eager to thresh; but this was exceedingly difficult for him, because he could not keep time. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Answered thereupon the net-man, "Would you call it proper threshing, 50 If with all your strength you threshed not, Putting forth your manly efforts?" Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two Behind them the white dome of Mount Hood ran fourteen thousand feet into the blue, and at their feet the river threshed among a belt of cottonwood trees. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Because it is first cradled, then threshed, and afterward becomes the flower of the family. The Handbook of Conundrums The gathered corn is threshed, and then stored in holes in the ground, where it can be kept without deteriorating for upwards of ten years. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 They drew the plough, trampled the corn sheaves round the circular threshing floor, and were sometimes employed to drag heavy weights. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In the farmyard there was no steam engine, and all the work was done by manual labour, such as threshing the corn with the flail. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself He presently went to a threshing machine factory in northern New York; thence to Fitchburg, Mass., where he obtained a place in the engineering works of his uncle. Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College Tibetan men and women, as they thresh their corn with the flail, chant pretty ditties in unison, and Tibetan boatmen on the Sangpo will sometimes sing to their work. To Lhassa at Last One man with a modern harvester can now do the work of eight men using the old methods, while the modern threshing machine has displaced fourteen to twenty-nine farm laborers. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Although on the large farms iron ploughs, and threshing and grain-cleaning machines, have been introduced, the small cultivator prefers the simple native plough made of wood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Scarcely have they gathered in the harvest when the winter comes with its terrible cold; during this season they thresh the corn. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] A level place for a threshing floor was much prized. The Bible Story "In the first place I was in the barber shop being shaved, when a telephone message came that a man had been terribly injured by falling into a threshing machine out at the Shepperd farm." Sube Cane In the half-day test the six men threshed out by hand sixty liters of wheat; while a single American with his machine threshed 740 liters and easily beat all contestants. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Corn is threshed by a norag, a machine resembling a chair, which moves on small iron wheels or thin circular plates fixed to axle-trees, and is drawn in a circle by oxen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" I’ll have to go to trial in the dark—no chance to cipher on what’s what, like I would if I had a chance to thresh it out with my friends.” Stepsons of Light Ordinarily in the East, wheat is threshed by being trodden out with oxen on a bare, hard piece of ground. The Bible Story On entering the shed he observed a threshing outfit that had been stored for the winter. Sube Cane It was a dramatic moment in history when at the Paris Exhibition of ’55 a hopeless contest was waged between six sturdy workmen with the old hand flail, and threshing machines from four different countries. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity In fact, he was fairly famous in his county as the inventor of a hemp-brake, a clover-sheller, a bellows and threshing machine. The Romance of the Reaper They stooped like hawks upon the islet offshore, burying the two Arzian fishers instantly under their snapping, threshing bodies. The Anglers of Arz The wine press furnished a small, flat place where the little wheat they had could be threshed in secret. The Bible Story |
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