| 单词 | threshing floor |
| 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 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 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 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 "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 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 “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 Early one summer day, Father carried me on his shoulders over to the threshing floor. Mo Yan: “Bull.” 2012-11-19T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A threshing floor is turned into an official arena, a set of mat-sheds are put up, and the whole village soon swarms with yamên-runners. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The parallel sticks served as a threshing floor, on which was spread a thick layer of corn. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. 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 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" A level place for a threshing floor was much prized. The Bible Story 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 While the women reap, the men gather the bundles and bind them for the threshing floor. Oriental Women 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 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 What reason did David give for not receiving the threshing floor as a gift? The Bible Story 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 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 had a threshing floor on the top of Mount Moriah. Birdseye Views of Far Lands 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 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" 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 The great wind was blowing across the threshing floor of the nation, and the people were separated into two distinct heaps, and must be counted forever as chaff or as wheat. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion The big, soft country lass, Like a loose sheaf of wheat Slipped through my arms on the threshing floor At my feet. Look! We Have Come Through! Life itself was but a preparation and a trial—a threshing floor where, under the "tribulation" of want, the wheat was beaten from the straw. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice We pitched on the threshing floor between the village and the castle. Byeways in Palestine The grain itself is worshipped at the threshing floor by sprinkling water and liquor on to it. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Therefore went she down unto the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 You will see grain threshed by herds of goats and ponies driven around and around the threshing floors, as men threshed grain before the Bible was written. The Blood of the Conquerors The spot finally selected for the threshing floor was brushed as clean as twig brooms would make it, and the wheat spread out upon it. The Master-Knot of Human Fate Religion, law and medicine are pitchforked about by the Divine William on the threshing floor of his literary granary, where he separates wheat from chaff, instanter, leaving the beholder mystified by the splendid result. Shakspere, Personal Recollections How pleasant o'er the still autumnal vale From his great timbered barn's wide open door The muffled sound of his unresting flail In rhythmic swing upon the threshing floor! Confessions of Boyhood The sand-cone will vanish in a night, as it came in a night, and what was its site will be swept as flatly clean as any threshing floor. The President A novel After the grain was cut it was tied in bundles and carried to the threshing floor, which was usually a wide, level space of hard ground or rock. Hebrew Life and Times May the Arabs rob her threshing floor, And not one kernel remain in her store. The Women of the Arabs The old barn had been rigged up as a rustic playhouse, the stage covering one end, elevated about three feet from the threshing floor. Shakspere, Personal Recollections With drought and tempest it was devastated, with fire and hail, until not a leaf was left of its luxuriant vegetation and the ground was bare as a threshing floor. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Minds in debate should resemble flails on the threshing floor, that labour not to overcome each other, but to separate the solid grains from the chaff and straw. The Young Priest's Keepsake Here is a fleece of wool on this threshing floor. The Wonder Book of Bible Stories At the ingathering of the buckwheat, when the crop is stacked on the threshing floor, and the work of threshing is about to begin, the simple formula, 'Thank you, Ilsomo,' is used. Across China on Foot And flocks of ducks forsake their sedges, Wending home to the wide barn-door, And loaded wains between the hedges Slowly creep to his threshing floor— Slowly creep. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Leaving their horses at the corral, the brothers fell at the task as if it had been a threshing floor, and their flails rang out from contact with the icy sleet. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings After putting some big slippers on over our shoes, we entered the building and saw this great rock, which tradition says is the threshing floor of Araunah, and the spot where Melchizedek sacrificed. A Trip Abroad Raised a frame, and thatched the roof of an open barn at the Ninety Acres, and laid a threshing floor. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 After mutually affectionate greetings Mamma told us to go to our father and to ask him to come to her before he went to the threshing floor. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters The threshing floor should be on high ground so that the wind can blow upon it from all directions. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro Then with a joy unshared save by the vagrant, I see the threshing floor well filled and fragrant, The sloping straw-thatched cottage roofs again, The window panels carved, of varied stain. Russian Lyrics Continuing my walk on Wednesday, I passed one of the numerous threshing floors of the country. A Trip Abroad The servant spent the night on the threshing floor without any clothes in spite of the frost and won his bride. Folklore of the Santal Parganas The threshing floors shall be full of grain, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism In a hot country where the threshing floor is uncovered it is desirable to build a shelter near by where the hands can resort in the heat of the day. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro On the village highway also Works and wins he over all, From the threshing floor to stable— From the sheepfold to the stall. Russian Lyrics I climbed the stairs to the threshing floor, then the ladder to the mow, walked a beam to the wall, there followed one to the east end, and another to the little, high-up ventilator window. Laddie; a true blue story Once there was an old woman who lived on the grain she could collect from other people’s threshing floors. Folklore of the Santal Parganas I often think of the old threshing floor. The Bark Covered House The heaviest and best of the sheaves should be selected on the threshing floor and the spikes laid aside for seed. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro At present we are living on the threshing floor mostly, and the whole house is packed up; when it is unpacked, there'll be a bathroom on the second floor, and a lavatory on the first. Michael O'Halloran Laddie had his in the hopper of the cider press right on the threshing floor, and as he was sure to get more than I had anyway, I usually put mine with his. Laddie; a true blue story That's heap of speechless misery by the kitchen fire, and carried him off to the barn, and spread some corn on the threshing floor and thrust a flail into his hands. A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2 David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people. The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor. The World English Bible (WEB): Ruth As the dust of the threshing floor to the summer grain, so was his likeness to one she remembered. The Desert and the Sown It was built against an embankment so that on one side you could drive right on the threshing floor with big loads of grain. Laddie; a true blue story Down at the barn, the wide threshing floor had been covered with gay rag-rugs, and strewn with tables, couches, and chairs in picturesque profusion. The Best American Humorous Short Stories So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel The threshing floor for cañihua is a large blanket laid on the ground. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru And they came up to Atad's threshing floor Beyond the river Jordan, where full sore They mourned for him till seven days were past, So long their mourning in that place did last. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 So we went around the outside, entered at the door on the embankment, and he sat in the wheelbarrow on the threshing floor while I told him. Laddie; a true blue story The railroad gang, bonanza barons, and banking clique, sweep the threshing floor. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Not the mounds of wheat That load Sardinian threshing floors; Not Indian gold or ivory—no, Nor flocks that o'er Calabria stray, Nor fields that Liris, still and slow, Is eating, unperceived, away. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace Near here, too, large three-mule loads of dry earth compost were going to the fields and men were busy pulverizing and mixing it on the threshing floors preparatory for use. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan Close by the field is the threshing floor. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life He said our back barn door opening from the threshing floor would afford a fine view of the meet, but Candace, May, and Miss Amelia wanted to be closer. Laddie; a true blue story We children, lying, in summer, on the straw of the threshing floor, have told one another stories of the treasures which a dragon guards underground. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The Biblical threshing floor, on which oxen or horses trampled out the grain, was still common in Washington's time, though it had been largely succeeded by the flail. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest In this case the dried bushes with their leaves were being beaten with flails on a threshing floor. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan The instances which it was the fashion to cite of the great achievements of soldiers taken from the threshing floor and the shopboard were fit only for a schoolboy's theme. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 The bulk of the force destined for Ireland consisted of men just taken from the plough and the threshing floor. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction. War and Peace The honest Connecticut farmer was quietly gathering from his threshing floor the shoe-pegs, which, when intermixed with a fair proportion of oats, offered a pleasing substitute for fodder to the effete civilizations of Europe. Drift from Two Shores The methods vividly illustrate the first Psalm and other Bible references— gleaning, muzzling ``the ox when he treadeth out the corn,'' the threshing floor and ``the chaff which the wind driveth away.'' New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening Stepping carefully with her sunburnt, bare feet, the old woman conducted Levin, and moved back the fence for him by the threshing floor. Anna Karenina "Straight out at the back; by our threshing floor, my dear, and hemp patches; there's a little footpath." Anna Karenina |
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