单词 | thresh about |
例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 Mrs. Bernardi peered into the murky depths where her husband was threshing about. Collector's Item When the ambulance started, it went anywhere but in a good road, and as it bumped over logs and boulders, my broken leg would thresh about like the mauler of a flail. Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry He fought them with a leafy branch, and threshing about him, he toiled ahead, cleverly using his crooked stick to conceal his trail. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters McFann threshed about in another futile attempt to escape, and cursed his captors with gifts of expletive which came from two races. Mystery Ranch But fortunately he came up on the surface to thresh about some more. Tales of Fishes And suddenly the woods at their right began to thresh about, with a surprised rustling, and a low mutter, as of smothered warning, ran over the shoulder of the mountain. The Innocent Adventuress He dashed after whatever it was, plunging through the shrubbery and threshing about for several minutes. Sunlight Patch He fell with a great roar, and began to thresh about in the bushes. The Young Alaskans on the Trail The roars or fierce yells showed that he had hit, and they heard the sound of heavy bodies being threshed about in the dusk. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain Behind the shielding falsework he heard and felt the rustle and the heave of a great sinewy body threshing about in a confined space. Sundry Accounts He wallowed and threshed about like a suffering animal, beating the earth with his clenched fists, during the paroxysms of cutting, wrenching pain. 'Me--Smith' Later, he fought to loosen the grip of the iron fingers at his throat, twisting, squirming, threshing about the room in his agony. 'Firebrand' Trevison Its loathsome body threshed about in the lake, throwing water far up on the beach. Omega, the Man But the grass had not been threshed about. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" All she could hear was the threshing about of the brush and the sound of heavy dragging. Stubble He threshed about like a dying animal, trying to rise and stagger around the room. The Man from the Bitter Roots This convulsive movement spread to her shoulder, until her whole arm began to thresh about like a flail in a most alarming way. The Shadow World He was not a bit sleepy; he had, in fact, dozed most of the way from Washington, and the idea of threshing about in the hot berth was not agreeable. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport Next I ran back into the hall, where the two men were still struggling and threshing about. The Paternoster Ruby The trees did not sway or thresh about. A Son Of The Sun Dawling remembered things; I think he caught in my very face the irony of old judgments: they made him thresh about in his chair. Embarrassments Each horse of my team had taken a turn at doing dangerous, even menacing, threshing about; but both were now quietly pulling in the harness, Partizanship as docile as Plutocracy. The Plum Tree The torpedo boat destroyers threshed about hither and thither in smothers of spray while away to the north the mine sweepers stretched across from shore to shore intent upon their never-ending search. On the Fringe of the Great Fight Agnew flounced and threshed about, crying out that he was shot. Frank Merriwell's Reward They threshed about, the bulkiness of the fur clothing hampering them. The Time Traders Then the birches over the way threshed about in a gust of wind. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He threshed about so vigorously that he tripped himself and fell upon the bank of the brook, rolling over and over toward the water. The Tale of Solomon Owl Something was threshing about the trail and coughing horribly. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Locke was threshing about and was slowly but surely freeing himself. The Master Mystery Davis was threshing about in the water in an effort to release this desperate clutch without altogether loosening his hold upon the lad. The Boy Allies Under the Sea While some of the kids are "going through" the victim, others are holding his legs so that he cannot kick and thresh about. The Road At that moment Claiborne's eyes caught sight of a burly figure rising and threshing about by the broken pen door. The Port of Missing Men And there he hung, threshing about with his hoofs and suspended from the ladder. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Within sixty seconds from that time half of the crowd were threshing about in the cold waters of the pool, while Tad, who had crawled out, sat on the bank dripping, watching their struggles. The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers Or, On the Trail of the Border Bandits He was growling and threshing about far below. Tales of lonely trails See where the vines and briars were threshed about by the bear as he fell. The Lords of the Wild A Story of the Old New York Border This mill was operated by two men and was capable of threshing about two bushels of wheat per hour--pretty slow work as compared with that of a modern thresher. George Washington: Farmer This was a good deliverance, the manner in which the spars had threshed about, having menaced our lives, before. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Then it threshes about wildly, until it receives hook after hook in its soft flesh; and the hooks, straining from many different angles, hold the luckless fish fast until it is drowned. Tales of the Fish Patrol The two animals threshed about, the lynx ripping and tearing with her claws and using her teeth as well, while the she-wolf used her teeth alone. White Fang As always, a few crows cawed above the deep woods, and the chewinks threshed about among the dry leaves. At the Foot of the Rainbow The strips of canvass that remained attached to the yard, with the blocks and gear attached, threshed about in a way to threaten the lives of all that approached. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale In such straits as were mine, some men of my all-or-none temperament debauch themselves; others thresh about blindly, reckless whether they strike innocent or guilty. The Deluge It would do no good to thresh about. We Can't Have Everything He fought furiously, his great arms and legs threshing about like flails. Man Size His hand touched something that was threshing about. The Boy Allies at Jutland Huggermugger made a great noise in entering, and ran up immediately to the door at which Little Jacket had been cutting, and threshed about him with a great stick, right and left. The Last of the Huggermuggers I was glad she wasn't threshing about the boat: but what I did think was wrong, was the way the two men passengers behaved. Soldiers Three They could hear the clatter of the tinware as he threshed about, and the crash and bang of other articles belonging to their equipment. The Pony Rider Boys in Montana Or, the Mystery of the Old Custer Trail Never mind being threshed about, so long as you keep your feet and keep the tines out of your vitals. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The snow cut his face, the wind threshed about his coatless figure, but he heeded them not. Quill's Window Somehow he managed to get out of bed and to place his back against the wall, and there he cowered until he heard his brother's body threshing about the floor. The Winds of Chance The piston rod, threshing about with nothing to hold it, had broken several parts of the engine, and some pieces of the driving rods had been hurled up into the cab, narrowly missing the engineer. The Motor Boys on the Pacific Or, the Young Derelict Hunters It was necessary to kill the serpent at one shot, as to merely wound it might mean that in its agony it would thresh about, and seriously injure, if not kill, Mr. Damon. Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship Great bodies seemed to be threshing about, beating the water to foam, and, with the foam could be seen bright blood mingled. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land I had lain awake all night threshing about, itching with curiosity. Sir Dominick Ferrand But his strength was far spent and the buffalo, larger than his fellows, threshed about and jerked in terror. The Last of the Plainsmen All of a sudden I became aware of the old hunter threshing about under the tree. The Young Forester Dawling remembered things; I think he caught in my very face the irony of old judgments: they made him thresh about in his chair. Glasses At times neither of the big creatures could be seen, because of the smother of foam in which they rolled and threshed about. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land And he began to thresh about with his arms and legs. Typhoon While moving and threshing about to warm his frozen blood, Jones munched another biscuit. The Last of the Plainsmen But whether it was the threshing about of wolves dying in agony, or the fighting of the fortunate ones over those shot, could not be ascertained in the confusion. The Last of the Plainsmen |
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