| 单词 | thresher |
| 例句 | Pa called to Ma that the threshers had come; then he hurried out to the field with his team. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At noon the threshers came in to the table loaded with food. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was none too much, for threshers work hard and get very hungry. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In that moment, the thresher rears up its tail and lands a tremendous blow on the whale’s snout. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Whilest we remained at this island we saw a whale chased by a thresher and a swordfish; they fought for the space of two hours. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z As the whale slows, the thresher deals more slamming blows and the swordfish cuts again and again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We might see the thresher with his flail lay on the monstrous blows, which was strange to behold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Normally, Karl had said, it would take three men to keep up with the threshers output, filling the gunnysacks and stitching them with exactly seven stitches before tossing them onto the grain wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The thresher lands another harsh blow, and another. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Coughing, I made my way inside, pushing through the throngs of men and boys, all clustered excitedly around the latest in threshers and plows. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Stop arguing with me. You look like you lost a battle with a thresher.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I would have liked to grow wheat for flour to bake with, but I had no way of processing it—no thresher, no mill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Looks like a swordfish and a thresher shark,” says Captain Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It feels significant, then, that the waters Vizl photographs often look depopulated, like an empty soundstage across which his subjects are wandering — a thresher shark, a school of striped Bengal snappers, a cannonball jellyfish. From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It was like trying to pass through a thresher. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home A thresher shark can kill prey with an 80-mile-per-hour blow from its tail. ‘Jaws’ Is Fiction. This Show Presents Sharks as Embattled Heroes. 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z She survived an American Idol thresher so notoriously brutal to its alumni that one of its winners recently sued the show. Review: Kelly Clarkson's 'Piece By Piece' Is a Victory Lap 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z And on Wednesday, the Finnish Confederation of Industries sponsored an all-day webinar with Ukrainian officials so companies could show off their wastewater treatment plants, transformers, threshers and prefabricated housing. ‘The World’s Largest Construction Site’: The Race Is On to Rebuild Ukraine 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z That can be bad news for swimmers and surfers, but is probably a good sign for the oceans — the great whites, hammerheads, thresher and tiger sharks are all vital to keeping the ecosystem in balance. Experts blame spate of shark attacks on combination of successful conservation efforts, bad luck 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z “This isn’t ‘Jaws,’ we’re not talking about a great white, man-eating machine — but if a thresher shark comes through and takes a nibble on your foot, that could be a problem,” said Mr. Epstein. N.Y. Beaches Step Up Shark Patrols, Adding Drones, Trackers and Tourniquets 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z What’s a parent supposed to do with that pro tip, especially when a child routinely runs your sense of self through a thresher? Fatherhood books didn't help Keith Gessen much. He wrote one anyway 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z His makeshift lab consists of a simple grain thresher beside a row of mud sheds. The drug trade now flourishing in Afghanistan: Meth Phoenix, meanwhile, has resembled basketball’s version of a thresher, ripping through the NBA and extracting what it wants. Robert Covington shows off 'quickest hands,' but Clippers' rally falls short at Suns 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z A thresher was harvesting samples of the newest genetic strains. Mexico’s wheat fields help feed the world. They’re also releasing a dangerous greenhouse gas. The stalks are then cut and sent through a thresher to separate the grain from what is now essentially hay. In Senegal, a Return to Homegrown Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Oregon's Department of Fish & Wildlife lists the salmon shark, spiny dogfish, soupfin shark, common thresher shark, basking shark, blue shark as native to its coastal waters, among others. What to know about sharks on U.S. coastlines 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Another nature enthusiast, Ruby Free, spotted what she believes was a thresher shark off the coast of Rathlin Island. North coast dolphins and a shark surprise beachgoers 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z In your last picture you threw a White man in the thresher. Yaphet Kotto, who played Bond villain and ‘Alien’ crew member, dies at 81 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Jambura led a study of the recent dead thresher shark, which turned up this April. Sharks Wash Up on Beaches, Stabbed by Swordfish 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z His first day on call, he was pulled into a helicopter to help with a “field amputation” on a farmer who had got caught in a thresher. A World Without Pain 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z As a result, thresher sharks are now considered to be vulnerable to extinction, while grey reef sharks are rated as being “near threatened”. Tigers, elephants and pangolins suffer as global wildlife trafficking soars 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Ms Free's sighting is unusual because threshers are mainly found in deep, open seas and rarely stray into coastal areas. North coast dolphins and a shark surprise beachgoers 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Murray was walking on top of a thresher that separated grain from stalk when he slipped and stepped into its rotating cylinder and blades. A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: Elsie Parrish: A chambermaid clears the way for minimum wages 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z They automated the manual labor formerly done by small armies of threshers and bundlers. The Age of Robot Farmers 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z This catch-and-release can also be fatal to sharks, especially species such as threshers, which show a high degree of mortality after being released. Shark fishing tournaments devalue ocean wildlife and harm marine conservation efforts 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Urban Evolutions co-owner Jeff Janson says he’s found the wooden equivalent of a hidden stash of gold in some dismantled JI Cast steam engine and thresher machine buildings, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Crews find prized lumber in gutted Wisconsin warehouses 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z “In terms of peace and quiet and harmony, the old system was much better,” said Chencho Dorji, 68, picking up a sheaf of rice and feeding it into a thresher. In tiny Bhutan, known for its pursuit of happiness, democracy brings discontent 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says thresher sharks are named for their long, scythe-like tails — which they use to stun fish. Fishermen spot 6-foot thresher shark splashing around in bay 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says thresher sharks are named for their long, scythe-like tails - which they use to stun fish. Fishermen spot 6-foot thresher shark splashing around in bay 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy responded to a third thresher shark this afternoon in Brewster near Cape Cod Sea... Deadly 'bomb cyclone' causes travel chaos 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z He mentions “the thresher rebellion”, which I think is a reference to the Swing Riots of the 1830s, when farm workers in the south of England violently protested against the mechanisation of agriculture. Meet your new cobot: is a machine coming for your job? 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z This tapeworm in the genus Paraorygmatobothrium infests pelagic thresher sharks in Taiwan. Meet the tapeworm hunters scouring shark guts for these 'beautiful little' parasites 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Two threshers were destroyed and cattle invasions continued for almost eight years. How Cosa Nostra's 'cattle mafia' is destroying Sicily's farmers 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z "Our plan is to build 50 threshers to distribute for feedback prior to mass production." Thousands Submitted Ideas to Our ‘Chasing Genius’ Challenge. These 4 Won 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Warming temperatures and loss of oxygen in the sea will shrink hundreds of fish species—from tunas and groupers to salmon, thresher sharks, haddock and cod—even more than previously thought, a new study concludes. Climate Change May Shrink the World’s Fish 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The United States is one of the largest fisheries for now-protected thresher sharks, which are exported to Hong Kong, the main shark fin hub. He lost a leg to a shark. Now he's trying to save the species 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The job this morning was to feed dried corn stalks into a thresher and then bag the mulch, which would be used as fertilizer for tomatoes. Trump policies strain the ties that bind a Mexican village to small-town Illinois 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z I referred darkly to an accident with a thresher, despite the fact the closest I’d ever got to harvesting cereals was bulk-buying Coco Pops. Liar, liar: in a post-truth world, writers reveal their biggest fib 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z “They were nonexistent a decade ago, and now they’re fairly regular,” said Dr. Oliver, who encountered the sardines a few years ago while studying thresher sharks just outside Moalboal on Cebu Island. Swimming With the Mysterious Sardine Disco Balls of the Philippines 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Pugh added that it’s “dangerously irresponsible” and “shows a clear lack of judgment” for a public leader to boast about killing a thresher shark on social media. New York’s Governor Posed With a ‘Vulnerable’ Shark He Caught and People Are Mad 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z A combine is a harvester and a thresher. Brothers harvest fields of gold in wheat country of Palouse 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z At their 56th annual reunion, the threshers numbered between 50 and 60. Group’s reunion shows threshing wheat still a hot hobby 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z The Belle Rose hit a famous reef that is home to rare thresher sharks. Photos Reveal Ship Damage to Coral Reef in Shark Sanctuary 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z For sheer grandeur, we'd be remiss not to mention the thresher shark, whose surreally angular tail is as long as its body and a heck of a weapon. Nice Caboose: Animals With the Longest Tails Bycatch of unwanted species, like this thresher shark, remains a problem for fishermen around the world, but a new study points the way toward reforms. How Our Favorite Fish Could Recover in a Decade 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Chandler was very proficient at newspaper delivery, a talent he had honed delivering fruit to northern wheat threshers. This is the battle that made Los Angeles — and a great newspaper war 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z The threshers sell the grain, but monetary income is only an afterthought. Group’s reunion shows threshing wheat still a hot hobby 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z The area, called Monad Shoal, is near important habitat for endangered thresher sharks. Photos Reveal Ship Damage to Coral Reef in Shark Sanctuary 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z If the thresher shark has a flaw, it’s that it’s almost too attractive. The Verge Review of Animals: sharks in Las Vegas 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Photograph by Brian Skerry, National Geographic Creative This thresher shark is the unlucky victim of abandoned fishing gear called ghost nets. After a Dramatic Start, Shark Attack Season Closes Quietly 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z And so every time a bumper crop materialized, Chandler loaded up a wagon and shipped the fruit to the threshers. This is the battle that made Los Angeles — and a great newspaper war 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Students gasped in amazement and awe when wheat grains shot out of the thresher after it was loaded by Stanley Greenfield. Students get close look at farm machinery 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z "This is a key, key reef and it's about the only place where you can see thresher sharks," Doubilet says. Photos Reveal Ship Damage to Coral Reef in Shark Sanctuary 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Unlike so much at CES, the thresher shark is an example of uncomplicated, effective design that gets straight to the point. The Verge Review of Animals: sharks in Las Vegas 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The ground shook with the rumble of shiny new plows, threshers, and harvesters; the air was thick with the smell of diesel. Robots are coming for your job: We must fix income inequality, volatile job markets now — or face sustained turmoil 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Phatcat owner and skipper Craig Deans said the "once in a lifetime catch" is the largest thresher shark caught off Wales. Man hooks 'biggest thresher shark ever' caught off Wales - BBC News 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z A recently published image of a thresher shark giving birth may be the only photograph ever taken of an oceanic shark in labour. 10 things we didn't know last week 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z These important areas were very close to the boat strike but were not directly hit, says Doubilet, who notes that thresher sharks are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN. Photos Reveal Ship Damage to Coral Reef in Shark Sanctuary 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The first is that it makes the thresher shark look super cool — most sharks are already sleek killing machines, and the thresher’s dramatic lines lend an elegant, graceful air. The Verge Review of Animals: sharks in Las Vegas 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z At first, photographer Attila Kaszo didn’t think much of a picture he took of one particular thresher shark in the Philippines. Ultra-Rare Shark Birth Captured on Camera for First Time Scientists there, during a routine reef survey, noticed a “visibly” agitated thresher shark swimming nearby, trailed by several cleaner fish pecking at its pelvic region. Marine Biologists Capture Rare Photo of a Shark Birth 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z This time, they pressed their luck not against a patsy from the ACC but against the electric-green thresher from Oregon. 2015 Rose Bowl: Marcus Mariota and Oregon crush Jameis Winston, Florida State 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The thresher sharks are a major draw for thousands of tourists to the area and nearby Daanbantayan town. Photos Reveal Ship Damage to Coral Reef in Shark Sanctuary 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The second is more practical; the thresher shark can use its tail as a whip to stun prey before eating it. The Verge Review of Animals: sharks in Las Vegas 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z In August, a thresher shark was caught in the Gulf of Alaska, Orsi noted. Those sharks are more typical off the coasts of British Columbia and Baja California. The Gulf of Alaska is unusually warm, and weird fish are showing up The show features three tournaments that award money to contestants who bring in dead mako, thresher or porbeagle sharks. Indiana man launches campaign to halt shark show 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s a labor-intensive process, the kind that in other instances is completed by a machine, like a thresher or a cotton gin. The Bud Light-ification of Bud 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Today the piers are decorated with tails and dorsal fins of the sharks that swim these parts: threshers, makos, blues and the occasional great whites. Rethinking Tournaments Where Sharks Always Lose 2013-07-23T03:12:34Z The thresher shark has refined taste to match its good looks: stunning its prey first makes this shark one of the few fish to actually prepare its food ahead of meals. The Verge Review of Animals: sharks in Las Vegas 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Two other threshers were spotted in the past four years in the more southern waters of the Alaskan gulf. The Gulf of Alaska is unusually warm, and weird fish are showing up He also noticed signs of possible social behaviour occurring between the tail-slapping thresher sharks. Thresher sharks tail-slap sardines into oblivion 2013-07-11T16:15:09.243Z Dr Simon Oliver, founder of the and a researcher based at University of Liverpool, filmed pelagic thresher sharks as they hunted off Pescador Island in the Philippines. Sharks stun prey with overhead kick 2013-07-10T16:18:34Z Automatic threshers replaced 30 percent of labor force in agriculture in the 19th century. Yes, Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs Now What? 2013-03-08T13:15:03.637Z And although the thresher is a solitary animal that prefers to chill alone, it’s also one of the only sharks that ever breaches, showing off to humans by jumping out of the water. The Verge Review of Animals: sharks in Las Vegas 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z More than 20 shark species, including hammerhead and thresher sharks, swim off its shores, according to the Pew Environment Group’s global shark conservation program director, Jill Hepp. French Polynesia and Cook Islands create sanctuaries to protect sharks 2012-12-17T19:46:27Z The whale shark shared this characteristic with not with its own cousins, but with thresher sharks and basking sharks, again, both members of the lamniformes. What Does A Whale Shark's Brain Look Like? (And Why Should We Care?) 2012-08-17T16:15:03.013Z Back in 2010, another team managed to film the common thresher shark swiping at and making contact with tethered bait using their tails. Sharks stun prey with overhead kick 2013-07-10T16:18:34Z It was believed it was about 30 years since a thresher shark was last caught in local waters, members of the angling club said. Thresher shark is caught off Looe 2012-08-05T11:38:37Z But apart from the predictable interference by humans, threshers are well-designed, stylish creatures that rank among the most sophisticated predators of the deep. The Verge Review of Animals: sharks in Las Vegas 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The shark has been turning heads at Ashton's Fishmongers in Cardiff market A fishmonger's stall has been turning customers' heads with its catch of the day - a thresher shark. Shark is stall's catch of the day 2012-07-26T07:26:45Z Indeed, other shark species with similarly complex cerebellums are those that require high agility for prey capture, such as hammerhead and thresher sharks, but also basking sharks which, like the whale shark, are filter-feeders. What Does A Whale Shark's Brain Look Like? (And Why Should We Care?) 2012-08-17T16:15:03.013Z But Dr Oliver said that these new observations provided the first clear evidence that "thresher sharks really do hunt with their tails". Sharks stun prey with overhead kick 2013-07-10T16:18:34Z Bailey credits a recent decision to close a swordfish and thresher shark fishery in California from mid-August to mid-November each year with dramatically reducing leatherback bycatches. Tracking Turtles from Space 2012-07-07T14:45:00.420Z He was a thresher in the service of a farmer near Kew, in Surrey. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z The sheds and the reaper and binder and thresher went just after, and the orchards and fences as well. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z The way of the lovers, as they plodded ever southward and westward, led them now past vast fields of yellowing wheat already beginning to ripen for the thresher. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z He devised and built a thresher, a hemp-breaker, some mill improvements, and in 1816 he made and tried a mechanical reaper. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z The red men swept that deep, dark shore As threshers sweep a threshing-floor. Songs of the Mexican Seas 2012-02-06T03:00:16.913Z One would suppose the poor thresher to have been beneath Swift’s notice, but the provocation was great, and the chastisement, such as it was, merited. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z Sea′-fowl, a sea-bird; Sea′-fox, or Fox-shark, the thresher, the commonest of the larger sharks occasionally seen off British coasts, over 12 feet long, following shoals of herrings, pilchards, &c.; Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z 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 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 Your system created a residuum—a criminal class—as surely as the thresher by sifting out the wheat leaves behind the residuum we call chaff. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z A thresher shark in Taiwan with its dorsal fin cut off. Green Blog: A Snapshot of Shark Finning 2011-10-19T16:06:16Z You know she's been standing her part of the expenses to get the Empire Company to send their steam thresher here, and her contribution amounted to more than half. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z It also monitors other native shark species like tope, smooth hound, porbeagle and thresher. Minister on shark tagging mission 2011-08-04T06:20:36Z A visit to the settlement means two days lost, and Gallwey and I decided to get enough to pay the threshers, too, so as to save another journey. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Yes, the brown threshers were as young as ever. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Ye who of wheat are threshers, beware how ye slumber at mid-day, Then is the chaff from the stalk of the wheat, most easily parted. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Dean Swift assailed the poor poet as follows:— “The thresher Duck could o’er the Queen prevail; The proverb says ‘No fence against a flail.’ Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z 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 He said something, too, about the boys going out to the railroad to haul the new thresher in. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z "Oh, I don't know; you will find out soon enough, from the Rostock 'Times;'" and with that he went out to the barn and took refuge among the threshers. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Farmers on light soil had finished cutting, and already the whistle of the steam thresher was heard in the land. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z Then there's all the thresher's corn, and the labourer's wives can make six pence a day besides if they like. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:01:02.690Z And beside all this horse power there were the steam plows, reapers and binders, threshers. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z The thresher now expected was an unusually large one, and Gallwey had set out with most of the teams to assist the men in charge of it. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z For when the breakfast came, Axel ate nothing, but he ate like a thresher. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z The thresher first in the field was usually able to choose his territory, and the choice might mean the difference between loss and gain at the close of the season. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z And turning toward Gareth she added, "Do not imagine that I admire you the more for having routed these miserable cowardly foresters; any thresher with his flail could have done that." Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z The brook murmured dreamily, and from the distance came the rhythmic beat of the threshers' flails. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z They went on towards the thresher, walking delicately among the flinty stubble, until they reached the edge of the whirling dust. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The researchers also found that thresher sharks in particular weren't necessarily born knowing how to find the hotspots. Tiger sharks can re-locate familiar hunting spots from several kilometers away 2011-03-02T03:15:00.447Z All the threshers and harvesters within range were hurrying to give their assistance, but indeed it was little they could do. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z A third species, thresher sharks, also showed "directed walking" like the tigers, but on much smaller scales. Sharks journey using 'inner maps' 2011-03-02T01:58:30Z My wife and I were incessantly occupied with hay-forks, by means of which we shook up and moved the sheaves over which the threshers rode, so as to throw them in the track. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z The commissariat required supervision when there were threshers about. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Adult threshers seemed to use "directed walk" much more often than the younger ones. Tiger sharks can re-locate familiar hunting spots from several kilometers away 2011-03-02T03:15:00.447Z They were called threshers, and soon enough, so was the team. It's How You Sell the Game 2010-06-24T21:00:00Z "Our research shows that, at times, tiger sharks and thresher sharks don't swim randomly but swim to specific locations," said research leader Yannis Papastamatiou from the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Sharks journey using 'inner maps' 2011-03-02T01:58:30Z The discovery explains why thresher sharks are often caught by their tails by baited long-line fishing gear. Thresher shark tail mystery resolved 2010-05-13T08:29:00Z Wilson McNair described these cumbersome and sometimes dangerous machines this way: The thresher was run and pulled by a traction engine. Frying Pan Farm The regular stroke of the threshers awoke him from his reverie. Landolin Here was one wagon with threshers, another with reapers, and others with weavers, vine-dressers, shinglers, and woodcutters; every sort of heavy work had been turned for once into play. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine By the late seventies the steam thresher was fast supplanting horse-power and a great impetus was given wheat growing when the roller process for manufacturing flour was invented. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity In front of the camera, they towed two baited lines, hoping to lure in common thresher sharks, which commonly feed on dense schools of anchovy and sardine. Thresher shark tail mystery resolved 2010-05-13T08:29:00Z We had a small engine and thresher that was pulled by a team. Frying Pan Farm In came the frame house, the spring buggy, the reaper, and the thresher. The Romance of the Reaper Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes In short, almost everybody will strike except the threshers, the smiths, and the pugilists. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) During this time, they filmed 33 common thresher sharks swimming near or approaching the bait. Thresher shark tail mystery resolved 2010-05-13T08:29:00Z Like the thresher, this machine was generally owned by an outside agent; it travelled from farm to farm to process each farmer's fodder. Frying Pan Farm “This was my cue to get busy with the big farmer, and before he left the bank he had bought a thresher, four traction engines and half a dozen ploughs.” The Romance of the Reaper When it was running away it went by a barn full of threshers, and they asked it where it was running. The Irish Fairy Book Three threshers went after a big cow sperm whale and her enormous infant, in shallow water. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North These observations confirm that common thresher sharks use their long caudal fins to pursue and stun their prey, which are then easy to catch, the scientists report in the Journal of Fish Biology. Thresher shark tail mystery resolved 2010-05-13T08:29:00Z In later years we had self-packing and weighing threshers with blowers that moved the straw further from the thresher. Frying Pan Farm It was understood when he left the thresher's camp that he would probably "make a night of it," and Mose gave him a word of friendly warning and advice. Stories of the Foot-hills He will clerk it with a pen behind his ear; or mount a pulpit, as Stephen Duck, the thresher, did, if you will only give him the chance. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 The railway, the steamboat, the telegraph, the reaper, the thresher, and many other important improvements and discoveries which tend to augment the productive power of nations, have all come since that day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 They are now researching how many thresher sharks caught by recreational fisheries survive. Thresher shark tail mystery resolved 2010-05-13T08:29:00Z 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 application of accumulated electric power to agricultural machinery—plows, harrows, rollers, sowers, mowers, threshers, seed-assorters, chaff-cutters, etc.—is only a question of time. Woman under socialism The buying of necessary costly machines, such as stumping machines, tractors, threshers, headers, is beyond the financial power of an individual settler. A Stake in the Land He did nothing but eat, and ate as much as three peasants or threshers. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) The researchers now hope to encourage fishermen to use more traditional methods that capture thresher sharks by the mouth, which would at least allow the sharks to continue breathing until they are released. Thresher shark tail mystery resolved 2010-05-13T08:29:00Z "Whoop! give it to 'em, Fred!" cried Colon, his long arms immediately taking on the appearance of a couple of old-fashioned flails, such as farmers used before the time of machine threshers. Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School It rains in threshing time, and the threshers' visit is prolonged until long after their welcome has been worn to a frazzle! In Times Like These They were already within earshot of the thresher. The Hound From The North There was money invested in farming machinery, and a bolt taken at will from a thresher to mend a plow or a buggy as temporarily required. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine There frowned Chief Justice Jukes, fumed learned Brother Small, And fretted their fellow Judge: like threshers, one and all, Of a reek with laying down the law in a furnace. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Suddenly, thin and brassy, out of the distance came the sound of a steam whistle; and when it was again silent the hum of the thresher had ceased. A Breath of Prairie and other stories At exactly twelve o'clock the engineer blew a long loud whistle, the band was thrown off, the wheels of the thresher ceased to revolve, and the work came to a stand-still. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 The wagons loaded with bountiful sheaves were drawing up to the thresher from half-a-dozen directions, whilst those already emptied were departing for fresh supplies. The Hound From The North So it was not until late fall, when all the crops were harvested and the threshers had come and gone, that the family began once more to consider it. The Biography of a Prairie Girl On this particular land no fire had been set for the reason that four large stacks of wheat still stood waiting the thresher. A Son of the Middle Border Without them no mortal to heaven can attain; For what can the sheaves on the barn floor avail Till the thresher shall beat out the chaff with his flail? Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul The threshers were coming at eight o'clock, and they hoped to get the engine and threshing-machine in order and be well under way at nine. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Ben Jonson speaks of it as an article of food— "The thresher . . . feeds on Mallows and such bitter herbs." The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare No ordinary farmer ever became able to have modern farm implements himself and they never dreamed that several of them could go together and purchase a binder, a thresher or tractor. Birdseye Views of Far Lands For days we had looked forward to the coming of "the threshers," listening with the greatest eagerness to father's report of the crew. A Son of the Middle Border One eager thresher in his zeal breaks his flail at the bend, and a shout from the bystanders greets the exploit. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Other laborers stood at the back part of the thresher, where the straw came out, and, with pitch-forks in hand, tossed it about until the foundation for a stack was formed. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Then come de cradlers of de wheat, de threshers, and de millers of de corn and de wheat, and de feeders of de cotton gin. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 He could think only of a thresher with his flail as Ulick, bludgeoning right and left, won clear from the press of Stockader foes surrounding him and rejoined his own ranks. The Doomsman Among the manufactures are harvesters, ploughs, threshers and other agricultural implements, firearms, rubber tires, shoes, shell goods, paper-boxes, and inside woodwork. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The threshers lead the way, singing and plying their flails as they advance, thus effectually clearing the road for the rest. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Two men—cutters and feeders, as they were called—received the sheaves tossed to them from the wagons, cut the withes of straw which bound them, and pushed them evenly into the thresher. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 First, it's all in the rough, ain't it, chaff and all, mixed together; and has to go through the thresher? Rosin the Beau “May I see your stuff, or is it not for the profane eyes of a thresher of alfalfa to look upon?” Winning the Wilderness It was used to produce power for belt-driven equipment such as threshers or fanning mills. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 A merry group of other threshers, each with his lass upon his arm, and his flail swung across his shoulder, come tripping after, singing the harvest song and dancing to their own music. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Mrs. Farnshaw was to have threshers to cook for to-day, and Elizabeth had grown thoughtful of the mother, who was aging visibly. The Wind Before the Dawn This is always the way with your paradoxers: they behave towards orthodoxy as the thresher fish behaves towards the whale. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Even threshers and mowers were included, which were taken apart and loaded on the return carts. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier This early thresher did not separate the grain from the chaff. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 We have threshers out there that thresh them out. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 And soon the gingerbread boy came to a barn full of threshers. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk "No, sir," he said, "I'm expecting threshers to-morrow, and have got to have some money to buy meat and groceries with." Twenty Years of Hus'ling The threshers in the barn stuffed corn into the pitchers out of which they drank. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life The gears connected to a pulley for operating grain threshers, flour mills, saws, and the like. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 But as a thresher pertinaciously pursues a whale till it has destroyed it, so did the little gig follow the large brig, which looked large enough to destroy a hundred such pigmy cockle-shells. The Three Midshipmen He called out to them: “I’ve run away from a little old woman, A little old man, A barn full of threshers, And I can run away from you, I can!” Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk Then we were put in the thresher factory. The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself It was pretty severe under a hot sun, amidst clouds of dust and bits of chaff flying about from the thresher. A Boy's Voyage Round the World The Hart-Parr tractor could pull gangs of plows or drive large threshers. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 From the barn yards come the pounding of the steam thresher or the creak of a windlass, suggesting that72 the hay crop is being baled. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Then the barn full of threshers set out to run after him. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk Your bodies shall lie like sheaves upon our fields; the ruins of your castles fly like chaff beneath the flail of the thresher! The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy When I come in at night, dog-tired and discouraged, I get out this picture and look at it and tell myself that some day I'll be driving twelve horses on a thresher. The Dude Wrangler Farmers also felt the advantages of the return flow of goods and services: the mail order catalog, the industrially made reapers and threshers, and countless other items. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 The transcontinental railroad, the bonanza farm, the steam plow, harvester, and thresher, the "league-long furrow," and the vast cattle ranches, all suggested spacious combination and systematization of industry. The Frontier in American History The half-blind thresher could see the outline of the open door against the sunlight, and his steps and voice guided his sightless fellow-worker. Home Life in Colonial Days A single path wound up the rock to the gate, so narrow and steep that one sturdy lay-brother might have held the way with a thresher's flail against a score of men-at-arms. A Child's Book of Saints Wallie stepped inside the cabin and brought out a pamphlet with an illustration of twelve horses hitched to a combined harvester and thresher, standing in a wheat-field of boundless acreage. The Dude Wrangler Many miles away, yet amazingly distinct in the rarefied air, the smoke of threshers hung in funnelled smudges above the horizon—like the black smoke of steamers, hull down, at sea. Deep Furrows Differentiation of Occupation.—If community life is to continue there must be the producers who farm or mine or manufacture; in rural districts they are farmers, hired laborers, woodcutters, threshers, and herdsmen. Society Its Origin and Development I never saw them, however, attacking one in company with a thresher before: they must have formed an alliance for the express purpose, as they have really nothing in common.” The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land Long before you see her come You can hear her throbbing, Far, far away like a distant drum, Near, like a thresher sobbing. The Village Wife's Lament The grain should be threshed as soon as it is dry enough to go through the thresher. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Nor were they disconcerted by the fact that the country was new and grain frequently came from the thresher in a remarkably clean condition. Deep Furrows But when he carried the winnings into the bar, ordering the hotel man to slake the thirsts of the threshers, they were sort of reconciled. Watch Yourself Go By “Only a fight, sir, between a black-fish and a thresher,” answered Ben Boltrope, the carpenter, an old man-o’-war’s man, and one of the most efficient hands of the Nancy Bell’s crew. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land Men began spewing out of the brawl like straw from a thresher as the old man grabbed arms, legs, or whatever was handy. Police Your Planet Daniel, away out and show Andy and Mr. Mackenzie the thresher, and get used to the company, and then you can come in and explain the thing to them. The Drone A Play in Three Acts Mr. Pertell built a little play about the work, the principal scene in one being where the threshers were at work, and afterward they were shown at dinner in the open air. The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays The fall that little Ike was in his eighth year, the threshers, as we called the men who journeyed from farm to farm to thresh the grain, came to the old Squire's as usual. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's This fellow was much smaller than the black-fish which had come to such an untimely end when assailed by the thresher, being scarcely longer than thirty-two feet. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land In young masters and misses we can pardon any childishness; but we cannot pardon the antipathy to the owl entertained by the manly minds of grown-up English clodhoppers, ploughmen, and threshers. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The loose sheaves dry quickly, and when lifted, the aim is to carry them directly to the thresher. Clovers and How to Grow Them A number of Mrs. Apgar's neighbors came over to help her cook, as is usually the case when the threshers come, so altogether some good films were obtained of this phase of rural life. The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays "I've done all sorts of jobs on a farm, from splitting rails to feeding a steam thresher, and they are picnics beside what you are now at." Dixie Hart The steam thresher would amaze some of our overworked, land-poor farmers. A Truthful Woman in Southern California The tractors and threshers were busily engaged in many directions. The Forfeit But owing to the difficulty in securing a thresher to thresh the seed, it is sometimes found necessary to stack the crop, but in areas where irrigation is practiced such stacking is seldom necessary. Clovers and How to Grow Them The thresher Duck could o'er the Queen prevail, The proverb says, "no fence against a flail." Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell When he's through I don't think he'll know the Elysian Fields from a steam thresher. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Through the spout of the thresher the grain falls into the box wagon, which carries it to the grain-elevator, or building for storing grain. Stories of Later American History He could lay a roof, or mend a thresher, it was all the same to him. Autumn But the opinion is held by competent judges that a machine that would more completely combine the qualities of the thresher and the huller would be still more satisfactory. Clovers and How to Grow Them Sheepherders were not welcome among threshers, nor in any other Western community. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue When the threshers smelt the Gingerbread Boy, they tried to pick him up, and said, "Don't run so fast, little Gingerbread Boy; you look very good to eat." Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling It was dark, ugly, smelly, the traction-engine, but it was what endowed the murmurous thresher with life. Secret Bread Clyde has taken the thresher on up the valley to thresh for the neighbors, and all the men have gone along, so the children and I are alone. Letters of a Woman Homesteader The threshers came and threshed the wheat and oats. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm The threshers who owned the machine worked a percentage of the grain which they carted away to the railroad. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue My fat'er say: 'I got no plow, no binder, no thresher.' The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest But Jimmy was in no hurry, because every minute gained was a minute out of bed and in this wonderful world where threshers hummed and golden clouds wove themselves ceaselessly in the air. Secret Bread The threshers happened to have stopped to rest for a moment, or she would never have woke at all. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men The experiment was completely successful, and it was manifest at once that the difficulties had not been in the imperfect construction, of the thresher, but in the insufficiency of the moving power. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The threshers, abetted by Henry Dorgan, had tried to increase it. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue Catch for your next prayer meeting talk a chewink or a brown thresher. Around The Tea-Table They stood a while longer side by side, and then Jimmy, who with the last whirring note of the thresher suddenly felt very tired, came and leant up against his grandfather. Secret Bread A rice thresher was equal to dealing with the crop of one tan, estimated at 2 koku 4 to, in three hours. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Thus he prospered through ten more years, saving money, developing a variety of schemes, letting out on hire a steam thresher, and in various other ways adding to his store. Children of the Mist Mr. Sherwood had aimed at a sufficient force to overawe the threshers, if possible. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue Horace Walpole has said that Queen Caroline's patronage of Stephen Duck, the thresher poet, ruined twenty men, who all turned poets. Thrift The thresher stood humming and palpitant, its great bulk painted a dull pinkish colour like a locust, but faded and stained with rust. Secret Bread On market day you find yourself in a crowd of men, talking cattle and crops, the last thing in binders and threshers, as farmers do all over the world. Lady Merton, Colonist Our reapers and threshers are supplanting, in Eastern Europe, the ridiculous flails, sickles and straight-handled scythes that figured at New York in 1853. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 One end of the rope was in the hands of several threshers, the other was in a noose around Gil Steele's neck. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue Then they held a consultation and declared that the deal was off—that for one-twelfth the amount of rice streaming out of the thresher, the American's profits would be highway robbery of the poor Filipino. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Poised on the stacks the men were busy feeding the sheaves to the men on the thresher, who in their turn tilted them into the great concave drum in its hidden heart. Secret Bread We lived out of doors, following the threshers from farm to farm, eating under an oak tree and sleeping on the fragrant straw-piles. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment The tools to do the writing are these ploughs and mowers and threshers, the stout arms of men and of faith-possessed women. The New North Be it said for the threshers they didn't know they were shooting at a boy. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue On the appointed day the American appeared with his thresher, and the Filipinos were on hand with their stone table and a confident expert who was reputed the best rice-thresher in the district. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines "Fitches are not threshed with a thresher, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod." Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers It was a wonder to me that in a valley connected with civilization by only a trail there should be found McCormick's reapers and Pitt's threshers. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment A barn of 90 feet in length was built at Toongabbie, in which nine pair of threshers could work. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 So at last they returned to their own tent, to the yarn-spinning threshers and the silent old cowpuncher. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue In a few seconds the Filipino had quite a little handful of grain collected in his stone bowl, but not a grain of rice had appeared from the thresher. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines But "he hath put on his coat of mail, Thick set with razors all," And a blade as big as a thresher's nail, On that Dragon's crest to fall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 Every year we use more of your American machinery; your plows, and threshers, and mowing-machines, and all agricultural implements are coming into use here. Abroad with the Jimmies 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 "You going to cut it all—and haul it down to the thresher?" O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 The economy of the thresher over their own wasteful system made no impression against the fact that his commission would be a bulk sum which they were unwilling to see him gain. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines From time to time, fresh material was supplied to meet the needs of the threshers. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate The baron raged like a tiger, and the cottager laid about him like a thresher. Maid Marian Nellie came to help her cook for the threshers and, for the rest, she managed very well, even milking her usual eight cows and carrying her share of the foaming buckets. Dust Wes had taken the coffeepot and gone down to the valley to see when the threshers would be able to come. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 To see large clear grains of wheat running through the thresher, foretells that prosperity has opened her portals to the fullest for you. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition For joy, like a cordial, had so raised my spirits, and reinvigorated my system, that I fed like a thresher. The Life of General Francis Marion Upon the gleaming harvest-field remote The thresher lies deserted, like some old Dismantled galleon that hangs afloat Upon a sea of gold. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 When the threshers smelled the Gingerbread Boy, they tried to pick him up, and said, "Don't run so fast, little Gingerbread Boy; you look very good to eat." Stories to Tell to Children This wheat was going to be cut, and hauled to the thresher, and sold in the market, if she did every bit of the work herself. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Behind them were the sheds for produce, and the machinery sections where steam threshers and earth scoops hummed and buzzed and thundered unnoticed. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories All through the wheat season, she told us, Ambrosch hired his sister out like a man, and she went from farm to farm, binding sheaves or working with the threshers. My Antonia He and his cousins bought a steam thresher on shares. O Pioneers! The long strap which ran from the driving-wheel of his engine to the red thresher under the rick was the sole tie-line between agriculture and him. Tess of the d'Urbervilles "Ay," returned the Earl; "and could not I send you the heads of the threshers?" Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II Two hired men, with another team and wagon, were already gathering a load of sheaves to haul to the threshers. The Calling of Dan Matthews But, dear me, what a life she's led, out in the fields with those rough threshers! My Antonia Opening the pasture gate from the saddle, Emil rode across the field to the clearing where the thresher stood, driven by a stationary engine and fed from the header boxes. O Pioneers! The hum of the thresher, which prevented speech, increased to a raving whenever the supply of corn fell short of the regular quantity. Tess of the d'Urbervilles We arrived in the midst of a busy time, a steam corn thresher plying in the vast farm-yard. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne I'd like to," Barton replied, "but there's not force enough on our place, and the threshers are wanted everywhere at once. The Story of Kennett To his friend Artis, Clare made a confession to some extent, informing him that he was in want of work, and would be glad to get some employment even as a thresher or ploughman. The Life of John Clare A few weeks afterwards, this very same dame was detected in an intrigue with the house thresher! Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 The agricultural laborers will gradually become skilled mechanics, able to direct threshers, binders, diggers, cultivators, and new implements we have no conception of now. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity On this Sunday, September 1st, 1901, in one place a steam thresher was at work, although for the most part folks seemed to be taking their ease in their holiday garb. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne It was while we lay off this island that we saw a whale attacked and killed by a thresher and a swordfish, which was a wondrous sight. Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony Out on the farm my first experiments were with tractors, and it will be remembered that I was employed for some time by a manufacturer of steam tractors—the big heavy road and thresher engines. My Life and Work When I passed in the misty morning of the next day she was still feeding the yellow sheaves into the thresher; and I thought how much better that was than the flail. The French in the Heart of America A dance of the reapers and gleaners followed, the threshers flourished their flails, and the whole went their way. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons But the Lord arose with His sword, and scattered His disobedient angels as a thresher scatters chaff. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories "The threshers are coming," they said, "and we must make plenty of things for them to eat." Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories As Beauchene continued talking too much, owning for instance that he did not know how far the thresher might be from completion, Mathieu noticed Constance listening anxiously. Fruitfulness The plough, the self-binder, the thresher were all invented on the farm. The French in the Heart of America The engine stood off fifty yards or more, connected by an endless driving-belt to the thresher. The Desert of Wheat The day was fine and dry, and the thresher was run at the top of its speed. The Black Creek Stopping-House His name was Stephen Duck, the thresher poet. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Glass in hand, never losing a bite, he had already persuaded his customer, by the time the roast arrived, to order not only the new thresher but also a mowing machine. Fruitfulness He was planning, planning, as he talked, the new things to do—the cheese-factory, the purchase of a steam-plough and a steam- thresher which he could hire out to his neighbours. The Money Master, Volume 2. Out in the wheat-fields were engines with steam already up, with combines and threshers and wagons waiting for the word to start. The Desert of Wheat The grain had all been cut and stacked, and was waiting for the thresher to come on its rounds. The Black Creek Stopping-House The excitement and fun of the grain harvesting was over and the big stacks were waiting the threshers. Their Yesterdays A nick name for a thresher, but applied to all the servants of a farmer. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue In such places the combined harvester and thresher is used. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall Then flame followed the smoke out of the thresher. The Desert of Wheat My wife and I were incessantly occupied with hayforks, by means of which we shook up and moved the sheaves over which the threshers rode, so as to throw them in the track. Swiss Family Robinson The heavy-headed, rustling wheat has turned to gold and been stacked in the stubble or sent through the whirling thresher. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields Some of the threshers rush at it and tear the best of it out; others lay on with their flails so recklessly that heads are sometimes broken. The Golden Bough Dry-farming is possible only because of the modern plow, the disk, the drill seeder, the harvester, the header, and the thresher. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall The big thresher was reduced to a blazing, smoking hulk in short order. The Desert of Wheat The robbers were very frightened when he told them about the threshers coming and they went away from that part of the country. The King of Ireland's Son Fact, I got my eyes cooked workin' at a thresher for them. Such Is Life If the threshers catch him they detain him over night and punish him by keeping him from the harvest-supper. The Golden Bough Of recent years the combined harvester and thresher has come into general use. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall But nothing, manifestly, could be done to save the thresher. The Desert of Wheat Her rings fell off her fingers, and her arms hung like the flails of the threshers, though they had till lately been so round and so elastic. A Group of Noble Dames Which reminds me—— We had been together about a week when the thresher came round. Such Is Life At Oberinntal, in the Tyrol, the last thresher is called Goat. The Golden Bough There are clover hullers, bean and pea threshers, ensilage cutters, manure spreaders, and dozens of others. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest This monkey-wrench was thrown upon the platform, carried to the elevator into the thresher.… The Desert of Wheat On all sides now the wagons of the plowmen or threshers were getting out into the fields, with a pounding, rumbling sound. Main-Travelled Roads Looking like big bluish shadows, thresher sharks went by, eight feet long and gifted with an extremely acute sense of smell. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The thresher of the last sheaf is said to “beat the Horse.” The Golden Bough Another development was the combination harvester and thresher used on the larger farms of the West. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest He toiled, and he watched the long spout of chaff and straw as it streamed from the thresher to lift, magically, a glistening, ever-growing stack. The Desert of Wheat Muffled in distance, the whining drone of that thresher still came travelling, deepening her discomfort. Beyond This is the really precious part of history, the corn which some threshers carefully sever from the chaff, for the purpose of gathering the chaff into the garner, and flinging the corn into the fire. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 The flesh of the ox is eaten by the threshers at supper. The Golden Bough I can drive a mowing-machine, and a thresher, but I'm not going to try an airship yet. Dick Hamilton's Airship, or, a Young Millionaire in the Clouds "That thresher's on fire," shouted Dorn, pointing toward a big machine that was attached by an endless driving belt to an engine. The Desert of Wheat On the air came the shrilly, hollow droning of a thresher, and the sound seemed exactly to express her feelings. Beyond They dry the grain so that it is easily reduced to meal, and they escape the theft of the thresher. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland The corn-spirit is supposed to lurk as long as he can in the corn, retreating before the reapers, the binders, and the threshers at their work. The Golden Bough But still the Spaniard endures, magnificent as ever; it is the battle of the thresher and the whale; the end is certain, but the work is long. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth That waving stretch of gold had fallen to the thresher and the grain had been hauled away. The Desert of Wheat It was on a flat car, and the general opinion ran the gamut from a newfangled sewing machine to a thresher. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West After battle keen to feed was he: Smoking flesh the thresher washed down fast, Like an angry sea Ships from keel to mast. Poems — Volume 2 But the person in question is necessarily the reaper, binder, or thresher of the last corn. The Golden Bough Clearly it is the duty of the threshers who are in charge. The Economist Kurt, mounted on the seat of one of the combine threshers, surveyed with rapid and anxious gaze all the points around him, and it lingered over the magnificent sweep of golden wheat. The Desert of Wheat Later, when the cattle ranges turned into farms, he worked in the fields and in autumn joined the threshers on their route from farm to farm. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets The reason for fixing on the reaper, binder, or thresher of the last corn as the representative of the corn-spirit may be this. The Golden Bough At the supper given to the threshers he has to eat out of the cream-ladle and to drink a great deal. The Golden Bough When only a single pile of corn remains to be threshed, all the threshers suddenly step back a few paces, as if at the word of command. The Golden Bough He saw more and more farmers arrive, in cars, in wagons, with engines and threshers, until the lane was lined with them and men were hurrying everywhere. The Desert of Wheat |
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