| 单词 | threshing |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 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 They ought to be put to threshing, reaping, and apple picking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 I could now give demonstrations at the state agricultural college on cutting and threshing grain. 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 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 “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 There was not a bean lost in the threshing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 Early one summer day, Father carried me on his shoulders over to the threshing floor. Mo Yan: “Bull.” 2012-11-19T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The primitive implement for threshing in northern Europe was the stick. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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’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 There was a great snorting and threshing below. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He invented and introduced a horse hoe, a grain drill, and a threshing machine. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 But I crave pardon, gentlemen, for threshing this old straw over again. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 She had the energy of a steam threshing machine, and affection to correspond. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 But, without food, she was no match for the man at threshing. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Seeding frequently starts early in April, and threshing usually lasts through October. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z Yes, over the new threshing machine he has bought. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z 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 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 They were threshing under the barn in the old style. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The threshing machine had been singing its autumn song for many a day. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z 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 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 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 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 Thus she dreamed to the accompaniment of the threshing machine. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z 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 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 I remembered a Tower, with a horse-gin threshing at an adjacent farm. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 We made another stop to watch at close range the operations of a threshing machine. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway 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 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 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 The corn had been gathered, and these men were engaged in threshing it out. 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 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 Girls also helped with the dishes, fed chickens, and cooked while boys tackled plowing, threshing and animal husbandry. Frying Pan Farm 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 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. 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 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 "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 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. 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 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 To-day, the day of his wife's funeral, they still keep on threshing? Landolin 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 For the girls alone they have swimming parties and visiting parties; and they help one another during haying and threshing. The American Country Girl 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 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 A level place for a threshing floor was much prized. The Bible Story 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" "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 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 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 the East the grain is threshed by the trampling of beasts, or sometimes, as in this picture, by a rude kind of threshing wheel. The Bible Story They stooped like hawks upon the islet offshore, burying the two Arzian fishers instantly under their snapping, threshing bodies. The Anglers of Arz On entering the shed he observed a threshing outfit that had been stored for the winter. Sube Cane As though by signal, the prisoners threw themselves upon the handful of guards, and the room became a seething inferno of flailing arms and threshing legs, the four walls echoing muffled shouts, screams, curses. Warrior of the Dawn The regular strokes of the flails on the threshing floors of the estate had a pleasant sound in the clear morning air. Gertrude's Marriage His underparts are like sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing wain upon the mire. The Bible Story They bounced up and down because of the uneven surface, and the banging noise of the engine made Dave think of a threshing machine. Dave Dawson at Dunkirk While the women reap, the men gather the bundles and bind them for the threshing floor. Oriental Women They had Diane safely out of reach of the threshing, striking thing before the scientist arrived. Brood of the Dark Moon On these the sheaves are opened and spread out for the threshing. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products What reason did David give for not receiving the threshing floor as a gift? The Bible Story Homer Crawford, his face agonized, was on his knees beside the other who was threshing on the floor. Black Man's Burden It beat the water into foam, threshing out its life. Sinister Paradise After a time, when the harvest comes, the farmer enters the field and cuts down the wheat, and it is then taken to the barn or threshing floor. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul The stems and leaves provide a welcome change of food for cattle when exhausted from threshing and during the dry season of the year. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products And there were left to Jehoahaz of the people only fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing. The Bible Story He therefore proposes to remove Libra from its control over the harvest month, and to substitute for it Virga, which, as every school-boy knows, is the Latin for a threshing machine in common use. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) But more and more of them gathered about, threshing at him with their swords, some on horse and some on foot, like boys killing wasps at the taking of a byke. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Years ago, when I was a boy, farmers used to spend a large portion of the winter in threshing grain. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul A common method of adulteration is to mix with the grain the joints of the straw which are cut during the process of threshing and separated when winnowing. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products DeVoe lost no time in seeking his own warm room, where Murray heard him stamping and threshing his arms to revive his circulation. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Thus there are two thousand agricultural banks, besides butter factories, distilleries, associations for threshing, for sale of fruit and vegetables, for wine-making, oil-pressing, and so on, amounting altogether to some hundreds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" I could see Cameron crying out and waving his sword before us as our horses gathered way, but I remember no more till the shock came and we found ourselves threshing headlong among them. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Machines for threshing grain were not then common, as they are to-day. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul Much might be done to increase the yield by better methods of husbandry, by the use of improved implements for cultivating and reaping, and by the use of threshing machines. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products His body was wet from the climb, but he exposed it openly to the storm until he was blue with cold, while the younger man stamped about, threshing his arms and lamenting his own discomfort. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure In the silence which followed the question, the champing of the horses on the grain in their nose-bags sounded to the women like a threshing machine. The Song of the Wolf He struck to kill, hammering with strong threshing blows; Wat, more like a duellist of the schools—rather, as it seemed, to show his mastery of the weapon. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway It was ahead and somewhat to the left, and as they stopped without speaking they could distinctly hear the threshing of a huge body through the underbrush. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 A great reaper was shown at work; likewise a traction gang-plow and a motor threshing machine. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure I just ask you, what would have become of us--should we ever have learnt a single one of our lessons, in the fifth form, but for a due amount of threshing? The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. How about throwing a pitchfork into a threshing machine? The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry I used as a little boy to drive the horses in Mr. Fryer's threshing machine. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind He stirred in his sleep, threshing restlessly, and whimpered. Homo Inferior Mrs. Bernardi peered into the murky depths where her husband was threshing about. Collector's Item And the fact is, without doubt, that a certain amount of threshing has a beneficial effect on both heart and mind, and awakens the activity of some of the most important functions of the body. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. "If there was a farmer deputy who had been at Beverly Park, I think they certainly would have a right to destroy his threshing machine." The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry And what a threshing of arms, of strength against strength, there is in the storm wind, every wrench tightening grip, to the rocks, some trees even sending down extra roots like guy ropes for anchorhold. Through Our Unknown Southwest He came up threshing and tumbling, gasped a mouthful of air that was half salt spray, was pulled under again. The Sensitive Man Under close-reefed rags of straining canvas, they came at us, lurching heavily in the broken seaway, and casting the spray mast-high from their threshing bows. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The old nag was working at his food like a threshing machine, the cow lay panting with well-being as it chewed the cud, and the hens were cackling sleepily from the hen-house. Ditte: Girl Alive! He was threshing the water furiously, now vanishing partly underneath, only to come up again in a whirl of bubbles. Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond Presently they came back, aimlessly threshing the woods and flashing their lights, but they had lost the trail now. The Deaves Affair Women were doing all sorts of work; reaping, and mowing, and threshing with the men. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 The first bolt must have gone through and severed its spinal column, but Grant risked destruction from the threshing body long enough to burn the head off entirely. The Wealth of Echindul They say,’ said he, ‘that Dukes, Earles, and Lords are coming with the King’s General against us, bot they shall be nothing bot a threshing to us.’ The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers A dozen figures were left threshing on the surface; but one by one they disappeared, till there were only four left. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Chief Black Fish vigorously applied the switch, and Simon took another threshing. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters This we saw continually going forward on the steep slopes of the Odenwald, ten or a dozen men and women all threshing together. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 The harvest finished, the threshing of the grain began. A Farmer's Wife The Story of Ruth The sound of the feathers threshing the air filled him with delight and made him think of the big night-bird that had flown past the window during the night. Jimbo A Fantasy "Won't you consent to let us go, without threshing the whole thing out?" she asked. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts 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 For an hour he pondered, threshing out as best he could this mysterious game in which he played a leading part unequipped with a book of rules. Seven Keys to Baldpate In Northern countries he is generally threshing, or gathering grapes. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), They assembled in large bodies, and visited the farm buildings of the principal landed proprietors, demolishing the threshing machines then being brought into use. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations When all was ready for the threshing, again the Cat came to the Parrot, and said— "Come, friend, let us thresh the corn." The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India The steady threshing with the whip had almost paralyzed it. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters The whole island is swamp, dyked like the Netherlands, and trenched and divided by ditches and a canal, by means of which the rice-fields are periodically overflowed, and the harvest transported to the threshing mills. Records of Later Life Its legs and thick, stubbed tail were threshing feebly in the mud as though it were in distress; and its eyes, so small as to be invisible in its repulsive head, were glazed and dull. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 A case in point was a couple of brakemen on local who, after unloading a half-dozen reapers and a threshing machine at Mendota, had gone into a saloon with the shipper and killed their thirst. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike Strictly speaking, one characteristic only of the threshing oxen is here considered, viz., the crushing power of their hoofs. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 When the Ark of Israel was being brought back from the Philistines, the cattle slipped by the threshing floor of Nachon, and the holy object was in danger of falling. Five Stages of Greek Religion Furniture crashed and splintered to kindling wood beneath his threshing feet. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Synagogues are built within the shadow of the sacred rock, the one-time threshing floor of Ornan, which David bought and whereon the holy temple stood. Christ, Christianity and the Bible They were not, as we at first thought, prairie fires, but the homesteader getting rid of the great mounds of stalk left by the threshing, the usual method. Westward with the Prince of Wales When the threshing is complete and the straw removed, there remains a huge pile of grain and husks freely mixed with dust. Burma Peeps at Many Lands 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 There was a startled snort, a sudden threshing of the brush, and it parted to disclose a girl astride a horse that was terrified and endeavoring his best to dismount his rider. The Plunderer They were awakened out of deep slumber by the threshing of an evil looking creature which had become entangled among the sharpened spikes. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 In a general way there has always been a certain amount of coöperation between neighboring farmers in the exchange of work in barn-raisings, threshing, silo-filling, slaughtering, etc. The Farmer and His Community The hiss and threshing of many wings came unceasingly. The Finding of Haldgren When the last baby was three days old, just in threshing time, she died. In Times Like These Now she was preparing the midday meal for the threshing gang which was at work in the fields. The Hound From The North As Perry started fearfully toward this, there issued from it a curious scraping sound, followed by a fall that shook the floor, and a threshing as of hoofs. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Threshing Machine.—The development of the perfected threshing machine was very similar. Rural Life and the Rural School The girl had spoken, and the air was black with their threshing wings, while still Chet waited with outstretched hand. The Finding of Haldgren Up went that mighty flail, and down it came again on the heads of the human tares of rebeldom who so needed threshing out in the very garner of wrath. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 The threshing gang was returning from the fields, and the purple haze of sundown was rising above the eastern horizon; Prudence did not move. The Hound From The North Does this thing––” He was interrupted by a mighty movement of the beast––a threshing that nearly blinded the men in the cloud of bloodstained seeds it raised. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 The First Machine.—The earliest of these threshing machines containing a cylinder was run by a treadmill on which a horse was used. Rural Life and the Rural School No mowing-, threshing- or other machines are used. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Before the fish had time to flee it was caught in Lutra's vice-like jaws and borne, struggling desperately and threshing the water into foam, to the bank. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Next it was for me to throw a lasso over that threshing tail. Tales of Fishes Threshers and threshing machines were put to work. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War The Steam Engine.—Then came the portable steam engine for threshing purposes. Rural Life and the Rural School From within sounded a threshing noise, as of a whale caught in shallows. The Trimming of Goosie The wind that had been threshing the tree tops blew with increasing fury. The Innocent Adventuress I reeled in the slack line and began to jerk at him to torment him, and I got him to jumping and threshing right near the boat. Tales of Fishes There it twined and knotted: a mighty serpent of the deepest ocean, snapping its awful length and threshing its powerful tail in an effort to dislodge the giant leeches that were flattened against it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 These operations were interspersed with plowing and threshing. Rural Life and the Rural School Far in the distance a thin jet of steam spreading broadly in the frosty air marked the location of a threshing crew. A Breath of Prairie and other stories The drudgery of the threshing flail is now unknown; the hook and the scythe have given way to the reaping-machine: in every way hand labour has been lightened. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland No wonder that the wives and mothers of these farmers dreaded the wash-days after a week of threshing. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 At the threshing place there are ten little puppies, and we have fine times playing with them. Harper's Young People, September 7, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Such has been the development in reaping machines from the sickle to the self-binder, and in threshing machines from the flail to the modern marvel just described. Rural Life and the Rural School The low vibrant hum that marked the 24 location of the distant threshing crew, sounded now almost as near as the voice of a friend. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Man fell against man with oaths and wild threshing of the arms, but they all knew one another for friends. The Web of the Golden Spider Charley could go all the time; but Jack would have to help about mowing and reaping and threshing, and couldn't attend regularly. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Over the hills so far away as to make it a picture, a threshing machine was eating wheat shocks and blowing forth a golden dust-like breath of straw. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight Threshing.—In those days most of the work around a threshing machine was also done by hand. Rural Life and the Rural School It was the season of threshing, and all day long to the drowse of the air was added, near and afar, all-pervading through the stillness, the sleepy hum of the separator. A Breath of Prairie and other stories The usual threshing floor of hard clay adjoined each house, and all day we could hear the steady beat, beat, beat, of the flails pounding out the wheat. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' He dashed after whatever it was, plunging through the shrubbery and threshing about for several minutes. Sunlight Patch The swift, unseen threshing of the night upon him silenced him and he was overcome. The Rainbow Here and there a priest or a belated dissenting minister may amuse himself by threshing out once more the old chaff of dead and buried dogmas. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies They had gone but a short distance in the woods when something was heard threshing through the bushes. The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest Or, the Wig Wag Rescue I thought of him as he appeared to me when riding his threshing machine up the coulee road. A Son of the Middle Border The water is alive with them, churning and threshing over one another like a pot full of eels. Round the Wonderful World Yet his will kept him there before the class, threshing the trivial subject. The Rainbow Robert, at the age of thirteen, assisted in threshing the crop of corn, and at fifteen he was the principal laborer on the farm, for they could not afford a hired hand. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 If he has hired a young animal, for threshing, its hire is one ḲA of corn. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters As a matter of fact the autumn term opened while we were still hard at work around a threshing machine with no definite hope of release till the plowing and corn-husking were over. A Son of the Middle Border So far as the criminal is concerned, one may well ask whether he has not set himself to the useless task of threshing straw. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science For a few minutes there was audible a convulsive threshing; and then there was silence. Devil Crystals of Arret When about half way there, down the road in front of them there appeared a big threshing machine, with its engine drawing it along. Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm If a man has hired an ox, for threshing, its hire is twenty ḲA of corn. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters That year the threshing was done in the fields with a traction engine. A Son of the Middle Border Then comes the threshing, which is done with old-fashioned mills, by pounding with a wooden mallet, or by rubbing between two large pieces of wood. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China A community some twenty miles to the eastward boasted a threshing mill, and arrangements were made for its use after it had discharged the duties of its own locality. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West So he went along steady and easy past the threshing machine. Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm “He gave him a threshing, ma’am,” I heard Hilton’s voice saying, far away, as though it came to me over a long-distance telephone on a wet night. The Prairie Child Much of the charm, the poetry of the old-time threshing vanished with the passing of horse power and the coming of the nomadic hired hand. A Son of the Middle Border In the ninth chapter of First Corinthians he speaks at length on how teachers are entitled to support, saying the mouth of the threshing ox should not be muzzled; that would be gross ingratitude. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost When Harris's threshing was done he found he had six hundred bushels of wheat and seven hundred bushels of oats in cone-shaped piles on his fields. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West The threshing of corn has fallen entirely into their hands, and they follow a plough yoked with oxen. Home Life in Germany Jeremy had been threshing his brain for a solution to the scene he had just witnessed. The Black Buccaneer With them reaping was a game, husking corn a test of endurance and skill, threshing a "bee." A Son of the Middle Border He had a threshing floor on the top of Mount Moriah. Birdseye Views of Far Lands “Sure, we’re threshing out whether it’s the Irish or the suffragettes will rule England when the war is over.” Seven Miles to Arden But women are glad to get the threshing in winter time when other work fails, and it is often on this account that the proprietors do not introduce threshing machines. Home Life in Germany At so short a distance a Sioux could shoot an arrow with tremendous force, and there followed at once a roar of pain, a rush of heavy feet, and a wild threshing among the bushes. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain It was all poetry for us and we wished every day were threshing day. A Son of the Middle Border But society learns from the threshings about of its individuals. Women As Sex Vendors or, Why Women Are Conservative (Being a View of the Economic Status of Woman) Those who will neglect this day of salvation, will find God as an avenger, for he will not do useless labor in threshing empty chaff. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood “They are crazily afraid of everything in the shape of a conveyance run by its own motive power, from a threshing machine to an automobile.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The engine was still threshing and pounding when we took to our heels. The Dominant Dollar Even the life around the threshing machine seemed a little tame in comparison with the life of the booms. A Son of the Middle Border “It is simply threshing straw over, again and again.” Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 Off with you at once and see to your threshing.' The Red True Story Book He simply prefers threshing on a Wyoming ranch to a house-party or a wedding or a tennis tournament or the Adirondacks. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley The substitution of mechanical for horse or hand power, for mixed machinery, e.g., threshing machines, chaff cutters, pumps, etc., has taken place largely, although it has made comparatively little progress for tractive purposes. The Settlement of Wage Disputes Most of the events of our last autumn in Green's Coulee have slipped into the fathomless gulf, but the experiences of Thanksgiving day, which followed closely on our threshing day, are in my treasure house. A Son of the Middle Border Later still he was threshing some of this corn with a flail. Change in the Village It may even be stacked without tying into sheaves, though this course involves greater expenditure of labour in carrying and afterwards in threshing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Donald and Jack had ridden back with them to the ford to act as protectors, and, Vivian secretly believed, to interview the hobo, were he still there, upon the subject of threshing. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley The landlord found land, labour, oxen for ploughing and working the watering-machines, carting, threshing or other implements, seed corn, rations for the workmen and fodder for the cattle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Another was the threshing from the shock on the rented farm. A Son of the Middle Border He seemed to be toiling alone at a hopeless, interminable task isolated in the midst of a vast, uninhabited desolation, in a black chasm filled with the sound of whirling leaves and threshing branches. Mountain Blood A Novel 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’s looking for work, and now that threshing is coming on I’m looking for an extra man, so he’s going to stay 135 here a spell. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Cattle were hired for ploughing, working the watering-machines, carting, threshing, etc. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" In many instances a single crop of wheat will more than pay the expenses of purchasing the land, fencing, breaking the prairie, seed, putting in the crop, harvesting, threshing, and taking it to market. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West The screens catch any straw left after threshing. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 For the larger operations, motors will vary from three horsepower for cutting ensilage, to fifteen horsepower for threshing. Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine I think Malcolm may go along some—at least before threshing starts. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley The ears could hang for weeks after ripening, and could be picked off without meddling with the stalk; there was no need of threshing and winnowing. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Blind these guards might be; but no living thing, even though it bristled with eyes, could creep out unscathed through the animated threshing machine those jaws made of that doorway. The Raid on the Termites A threshing machine marked "J. and P. Flickinger, Hanover, Pa., No. 41." Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 The lands are ploughed, harrowed, and weeded by the men, but the transplanting, reaping, and threshing is done by women. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore But now, between shearing and threshing, 110 she had chosen a day upon which to accept Virginia’s and her father’s oft-repeated invitation, and it was a festive occasion for her. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Should field labour be suspended by the inclemency of the weather, or by any other cause, the farmer finds his servants full occupation in husking maize, threshing wheat, stripping, shifting, and curing tobacco. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. The next year a threshing machine was added to the family assets, and again the cry of “help” went up, again Elizabeth’s plans were sacrificed. The Wind Before the Dawn Threshers used the muzzle to prevent the ox from stopping to graze while pulling equipment or from eating the grain while treading on it in a threshing operation. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 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 His wife and children are fed with the harvest corn; but they in return devote the summer to weeding the crops; and afterwards, some in reaping them, and some in threshing. The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror Again and again he fired it till the great snake's threshing form lay still in death. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code “Now you can go to the threshing machine too, grandma!” The Wind Before the Dawn Portable steam engines provided belting power on farms to run threshing machines, circular saws, etc. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 Everywhere were sections of flat wheat-plains, stirring with threshing, with clattering machinery and the flash of blown straw. Free Air If you were to embank Lincolnshire more stoutly against the sea? or strip the peat of Solway, or plant Plinlimmon moors with larch—then, in due season, some amateur reaping and threshing? The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing He shakes his threshing, intolerable mane of flames, his face bans darkness and makes a burning void in his domains. The Masque of the Elements Others had no harvest, but your threshing ground was covered with sheaves! The First Distiller A typical flail used in Wisconsin in 1840 for threshing grain. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 Judith had neglected such matters to tend on Creed, but Nancy was already putting in hand the cutting and drying of pumpkins, the threshing out of beans. Judith of the Cumberlands A threshing machine, or a gigantic frog chorus, is a fair comparison, and when a branch loaded with these insects is shaken, the sound rises to a shrill screech or scream. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Pigs, dogs, fowls and goats roam at will through the dwelling and about the premises, while the two or three buffaloes and oxen used for ploughing and threshing are tethered to neighbouring trees. Life and sport in China Second Edition The most important items of expense will be labor, feed, seeds, fertilizers, harvesting and threshing expenses, spraying material, shipping packages, blacksmithing and repairs. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know Working model of a grain separator for a threshing machine made by Daniel Garver. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 I watched tranquilly, while the big, whiskered first mate, meeting the man as he dropped from the fore-rigging to the deck, received a threshing of fists and kicks that laid him out. The Grain Ship Others flung their nondescript wind-worn hats upon the floor, brushed their hair with their fingers and went into the dining-room as if going into a farm-kitchen in threshing time. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West After so much threshing that they can hold no longer, the little nuts become loosened and begin to drop off a few at a time. Seed Dispersal When the threshing machine was first introduced in Ohio, it was stubbornly opposed by all farm laborers. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know For, from one fiery seed, watched over by those that sent me, the harvest can come again to heap the golden threshing floor. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays You keep on threshing it out in your mind. Love at Paddington I says, 'anything from plowing to threshing and nicking a nag's tail,' I says. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Some are carried from farm to farm by wagons, sleighs, or threshing machines; or they are spread by plows, cultivators, and harrows. Seed Dispersal For example, the labor and cost of harvesting an acre of hay is much less than that of producing, harvesting and threshing an acre of wheat. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know Mr. Grey had forsaken his farm and his threshing, and was waiting to receive them. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls And then he said good evening and ran off to the place where Farmer Green had been threshing oats, feeling very well pleased with himself. The Tale of Chirpy Cricket He is threshing wheat by the wine-press, to hide it from the hosts of Midian, which devoured the produce of the entire country. John the Baptist Puffy squalls, bearing dashes of snow, sleet or rain, came threshing out of the west. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub That distant threshing of the bushes which the boy had heard after his first calling had not been a stray steer. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life At that moment Mr. Grey came in from the barn, where he had been threshing corn all the afternoon. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls When she incessantly denounced the “shiftlessness” of letting a new threshing machine stand unprotected in the open, he eventually built a shed for it. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays She was labouring hard in the heavy sea, rearing, plunging, creaking, groaning, and driving fast through clamouring winds and threshing breakers on to the cruel, black, steep horns of rock. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 The same agent can propel the harvesters and work the threshing machines. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization And now the threshing in the bushes stilled. The Defiant Agents It is a grand structure, of carved marble, but it wouldn't hold up a threshing machine engine half as well as an iron bridge. Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 He’s threshing, and most of our boys are over there.” A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Their mode of threshing in particular interested us. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" When Boaz winnowed his barley Naomi told Ruth to go down to his threshing floor and see him for he had a feast for his friends. Child's Story of the Bible But he neither had protection against his own awkward seat in the saddle nor the arrow which had seriously wounded the now threshing pony. The Defiant Agents His rider was half-hearted in his efforts, and was watching the forward rider, who had been severely thrown with the bird's fall, and badly bruised by the kicking and threshing. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner He’s going to have a supper and a dance as soon as everybody’s done threshing. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays The threshing floor on which the operation is conducted is twenty yards across, circular and laid with flat stones. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" Nature, the enemy he had been threshing into submission all his life, was not going to block the beautiful grade he had built. The Return of Blue Pete So he set to work, threshing the water very slowly and carefully, and turning his head towards the mouth of the Licking. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand All she could hear was the threshing about of the brush and the sound of heavy dragging. Stubble I told him I had it all figured out that I could afford to take one good threshing for every five dead beats, provided I could collect from the other four. Twenty Years of Hus'ling On the way we studied the method of threshing the wheat, which seems to be occupying the full time of every member of the families at this time. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" Ploughing, harrowing, sowing, reaping, and threshing constituted the chief events of the agricultural year. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The cause of it was that the French owner had brought a threshing machine and was threshing out his wheat. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 Right in line with the liner's threshing bow was a fisherman's Hampton boat, disclosed as the fog drifted. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 They were merely following the plan of threshing out all the hay in the haystack in order to find the needle, and he knew that they would complete it even to the last wisp. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The two men were threshing on the floor by now, Harold in a desperate effort to keep his enemy down, and there was plenty of time. The Snowshoe Trail |
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