| 单词 | threshing machine |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 There were half a dozen scrimmages when the goalmouth resembled a human threshing machine but all were at Wrexham's end. Mansfield Town escape Blue Square and head back to charmed circle 2013-04-21T22:00:01Z In 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He invented and introduced a horse hoe, a grain drill, and a threshing machine. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z 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 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 The draw, as it began to move, made a noise precisely like an old fashioned threshing machine—a rising howl, which went to her heart like a familiar voice. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z He invented a plough and a rotary seed drill, improved his harrows and mills, and made many inquiries relative to the efficacy of ploughs and threshing machines made in England and other parts of Europe. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The 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 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 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 She had the energy of a steam threshing machine, and affection to correspond. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z 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 Yes, over the new threshing machine he has bought. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z 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 The threshing machine had been singing its autumn song for many a day. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z 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 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 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 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 Thus she dreamed to the accompaniment of the threshing machine. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z 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 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 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 We made another stop to watch at close range the operations of a threshing machine. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway 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. 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 "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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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! 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 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 "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 Threshing Machine.—The development of the perfected threshing machine was very similar. Rural Life and the Rural School 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 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 I thought of him as he appeared to me when riding his threshing machine up the coulee road. A Son of the Middle Border 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 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 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 “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 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 he went along steady and easy past the threshing machine. Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm 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 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 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 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 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 Threshing.—In those days most of the work around a threshing machine was also done by hand. Rural Life and the Rural School 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 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 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 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 Some are carried from farm to farm by wagons, sleighs, or threshing machines; or they are spread by plows, cultivators, and harrows. Seed Dispersal “Now you can go to the threshing machine too, grandma!” The Wind Before the Dawn 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 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 The same agent can propel the harvesters and work the threshing machines. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization 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 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 Fire dies out in the patriot's eye, Changed my warrior's tone and mien, Choked by emotion he makes reply, "Kansas—harvest—threshing machine!" The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Then he began an extraordinary racket like an alarm clock, a threshing machine, and a buzz-saw all going together. Woodland Tales He had heard linotype machines in operation—which are not exactly what you would call quiet; he had listened to the outlandish voice of a suction-dredge and the tumultuous clamor of a threshing machine. Tom Slade on a Transport He said he was going down to the threshing machine to see his brother Al, and started off. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite There were corn mills on the plantation, and rice mills, and threshing machines. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Mr. Furniss can be seen at work with the regularity of a threshing machine and the variety of a kaleidoscope any day from 8 o'c. a.m. to 8 o'c. p.m. on presentation of visiting card. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 When Tim, Fritz, Whiskers and Bismarck emerged from the room, they looked as if they had been passed through a threshing machine, but they were on terms of good fellowship. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys As the master of the threshing machine forty years agone, he had filled my childish heart with worship. A Daughter of the Middle Border In fact, a threshing machine was hauled over. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 When a traction engine passed towing a threshing machine the sorrel mare showed her mettle in a series of gyrations that all but landed Archie in a fence corner. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! The threshing machine was threatening their work, and so upon the threshing machine wherever they found it the labourers set with a vengeance. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King A number of men were threshing grain a few hundred yards away, the steam threshing machine attracting farmers from all the country about. Watch Yourself Go By I've seen ribbons, and threshing machines and wheat and corn for a long time but I never had any idea how much brains people had before this. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs There's something gone wrong with the threshing machine. The Drone A Play in Three Acts You see he was near our threshing machine one day when there was an accident. The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays The poverty which compelled the farmer to use the threshing machine, bore down the labourer to unprecedented distress, and drove him to desperation. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King This pleased them all, and they hurried off; but on the way they came to the big shed where grandfather kept his plows and reaper and threshing machine and all his garden tools. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know A large dry goods house was on fire, and eighteen or twenty monster engines were puffing and roaring, each one like a threshing machine on Uncle's wheat field. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs The feedboard to the threshing machine got jammed just when halfway through the first stack, and he is in a lamentable temper. The Drone A Play in Three Acts During recent years, however, the seed is successfully threshed with an ordinary grain threshing machine, and the work of threshing is thus more expeditiously done. Clovers and How to Grow Them The water is pumped into an elevated reservoir and heated frequently by means of a threshing machine boiler, rented or purchased from some neighboring farmer. On the Fringe of the Great Fight They don't think that the very fellers running the threshing machine is the ones that drops the matches in! The Sagebrusher A Story of the West Each manufacturer sent his best piano, plough, threshing machine, or sewing machine. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy And the three threshing machines of the Golden Belt Wheat Company were pouring their ceaseless stream into the company's great bins. A Certain Rich Man The seed is frequently threshed with the ordinary threshing machine, but in many instances it is also threshed with a clover huller. Clovers and How to Grow Them Coming back to Down End, I find a travelling threshing machine at work in the rick-yard. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 They been busting up threshing machines acrosst the range—the paper's been full of it. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West Of late years, however, a constantly increasing number of improved ploughs, reaping, mowing, and steam threshing machines have come into use. Roumania Past and Present Not a sound was to be heard except the mournful hum of the distant threshing machine, but a peculiar clicking, like the halliard of a flagstaff in a breeze, suddenly caught my ear. Leaves from a Field Note-Book Congress has been working like a gigantic threshing machine all day long, and at this hour there is every prospect of an all-night session of both houses. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum But as I came nearer, I saw it was not Robert but his equally loutish friend, the young fellow I had seen working with him by the threshing machine. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 People in Gallatin offered a thousand dollars for one man catched putting matches in a threshing machine. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West In doing this I always followed the threshing machine to the bays and stacks. Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience The ripe ears with the dry stalks are thrown on the sand, and then half-a-dozen donkeys are driven over them—an animated threshing machine. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government In most parts of Europe the flail is now in use, but in England begins to be superseded by the powerful and expeditious but complicated threshing machine. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The first threshing machine is mentioned in the Select Transactions of the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, published in 1743 by Maxwell. A Short History of English Agriculture He used to say that chloroform was invented by infidels, and he would not let them give it to his son, Lawrence, when he broke his leg on the threshing machine. The Voice of the People There was more fun as he unrolled the numerous wrappings of the package to disclose a small metal disc used in a threshing machine. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Now if you had a threshing machine that wouldn't work, you'd find out what was wrong with it. Jerusalem A flail," said Mr. Blake, "is what the farmers used to use before threshing machines were invented. Daddy Takes Us to the Garden The Daddy Series for Little Folks He had a rooted belief that machinery was injuring him, the threshing machine especially; and he avenged himself by burning the ricks of obnoxious farmers. A Short History of English Agriculture I was in another part of the barn, and I guess Russ must have wandered upstairs, where we keep the old treadmill they used for the threshing machine and churn. Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's But there is the objection to the threshing machine that it breaks the straw and thus spoils it for farmers' secondary industries. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Once I had a month with the threshing machine, sleeping out with the mosquitoes, and getting meat nearly raw for food; but a lot of money can be made from the harvest. Argentina from a British Point of View When he arrived she had just come in from the fields where she had been at the threshing machine all day. Harvest Once he was threshing wheat with a 'ground-hog' threshing machine, run by horse power. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Finally the newspaper vanished into his face like a wisp of straw drawn into a threshing machine. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Necessity may show us ways, but small threshing machines are not so economical. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People We knew a boy on a farm who built a fairly workable miniature threshing machine with his own hands before he was old enough to speak the name of it in anything but baby-talk. Analyzing Character From every corner of the temple enclave the invocation was droning like a threshing machine. Kimono After coming of age he taught school for a few years, and then commenced making threshing machines and horse powers, doing the wood and iron work himself. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland So she fed him to a threshing machine of her acquaintance, which managed to masticate some of the more modern portions, but was hopelessly wrecked upon the neck. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull He wanted a small threshing machine which would be suitable not only for threshing small quantities of rice or corn but for easy conveyance along the narrow and easily damaged paths between the rice fields. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People He often compared himself to a horse yoked to a threshing machine. Liza "A nest of nobles" It was such a funny noise—midway between that of a steam roller and a threshing machine—that we both went out towards the lodge to see what was passing by. My Home in the Field of Honor Expect to see horse-hoes and threshing machines sticking out from under his furs? Strawberry Acres Here a steam threshing machine was at work, doing prodigious execution on different kinds of grain. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's The machinist has another and lighter traction engine which does not plough, but travels from farm to farm with a threshing machine. Hodge and His Masters The apartment is now occupied by a threshing machine; 'No bad emblem of its former tenant!' said a sacrilegious wag. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) At his death he owned not only threshing machines and a Dutch fan, but a wheat drill, a corn drill, a machine for gathering clover seed and another for raking up wheat. George Washington: Farmer It is but too true that Napoleon's parlour is now occupied by a threshing machine. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832 Even threshing machines worked by horses are being discarded, as too slow and old-fashioned. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's At a little distance, without silencers, they sound exactly like threshing machines. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I A mechanical carrier led thence to the threshing machines on the second floor, whence the grain descended through a winnowing fan. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime After 1825 these rude devices began to be supplanted by the threshing machine. A School History of the United States As I said, you folks has done damage enough with your threshing machine, or whatever you call it. Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam They are spreading all over the world and carrying home sewing machines and threshing machines and automobiles and cantilever bridges and submarines and aeroplanes—anything from eggbeaters to telescopes. Her Father's Daughter There is here perhaps one thing we should be aware of, and that is the necessity of certain tools — not tilling and threshing machines, but such things as sickles and hoes. Down with the Cities The threshing machine worked in a roofed barn, the forage was kept in a separate shed, and a paved drain was made from the stables. The Forged Coupon He cut bands all right for a few minutes, and then, Mrs. Harling, he waved his hand to me and jumped head-first right into the threshing machine after the wheat. My Antonia The hum of the threshing machine is heard as well as the muttering of thunder on the horizon. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Wel-l"—Sam knitted his fingers and pursed his lips reflectively—"I patented a new type threshing machine, once, but I couldn't get anybody to take hold of it. The Fortune Hunter I have fed sheaves to a threshing machine and logs to a sawmill, but their voracity was nothing to that of a big lumberman just in from felling trees. In the Midst of Alarms He shoved a mealie cob into his mouth, gave it a bite and a wrench, just like one of those patent American threshing machines, brought the cob out perfectly clear of grain, and took another. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal The work in which he most delighted was precisely that which most labourers hated, before threshing machines came in despite the action of the "mobs"—threshing out corn with the flail. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs He is dusty and comes straight from the threshing machine. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II It was intended primarily for driving threshing machines and sawmills and was simply a portable engine and boiler mounted on wheels with a water tank and coal cart trailing behind. My Life and Work A certain brother who was a farmer needed a threshing machine badly, and an agent visited him to see if he could make the deal. Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag Twenty-six magistrates at Canterbury sentenced to three days' imprisonment threshing machine breakers, who pleaded guilty! A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II "As you came down," I asked finally, "did you happen to see old man Masterson's threshing machine?" Adventures in Contentment From afar is heard the hum of the threshing machine. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II The owner of the threshing machine covered it up with canvas, and all those who had been helping, as soon as they had supper, started to make the journey to their homes. The Black Creek Stopping-House The brother mortgaged his farm and the threshing machine for forty five hundred dollars, but when harvest time came it had not come. Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag Such tunes as come up from the world below—a school-bell, a rooster crowing, children laughing on the road, a threshing machine on the lower meadows—such tunes are pitched to a marvellous softness. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come And so we talked of barns and threshing machines in the way we farmers love to do and I lured our friend slowly into talking about himself. Adventures in Contentment He was about to give it up in disgust, when he became conscious of a queer droning noise, as of a swarm of bees, or a distant threshing machine. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island There is a fine threshing machine at the agency, but the Indians will have nothing whatever to do with it. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 "Look is if I'd been through a threshing machine, do I?" grinned the plucky lad. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane You both resemble the output of a threshing machine. The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings It looked at first—in texture and rigid outline—as the stream of straw looks that flows from the blower of a threshing machine when you stand straight in its line and behind it. Over Prairie Trails At another place in the story he declares that his father bought a Russian threshing machine, which remained five years useless in the barn, until replaced by an American one. Essays on Russian Novelists He reminds me of the old horse I saw the other day running one of those infernal treadmill threshing machines—always going, but never getting there. Oh, Money! Money! Often a wheat drill, a mowing machine, a threshing machine, or an engine is left out of doors for a whole year, or for several months after the farmer has ceased to use it. Community Civics and Rural Life It is a large header combined with an ordinary threshing machine. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall Mr. Grile hastened to proffer a paper of tobacco, which disappeared like a wisp of oats drawn into a threshing machine. The Fiend's Delight In the hamlet of C. a threshing machine has been bought in common by several households; the fifteen to twenty persons required to serve the machine being supplied by all the families. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution You would think this stuff was shot out of the blower of a threshing machine—soldier's baggage, kits, quartermaster's stores—and this is a military organisation. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land It may be seen now at threshing time, when neighboring farmers combine to thresh the grain of each, the same group of men and the same threshing machine doing the work for all. Community Civics and Rural Life In Great Britain several threshing machines were devised in the eighteenth century, but none was particularly successful. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest All that last scene came back to him: the booming roar of the threshing machine, the cheery whistle of the driver, the loud, merry shouts of the men. Main-Travelled Roads Three other threshing machines have been bought and are rented out by their owners, but the work is performed by outside helpers, invited in the usual way. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution His right arm, from the elbow down, looked as though it had gone through a threshing machine, what of the ravage wrought by claws and fangs. Moon-Face Why is it an advantage for the farmers to use one threshing machine for all the threshing of the neighborhood instead of each farmer having his own machine? Community Civics and Rural Life The seventh patent issued by the United States, to Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, was for a threshing machine. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest The very wide spread of threshing machines in Samara, Saratov, and Kherson is due to the peasant associations, which can afford to buy a costly engine, while the individual peasant cannot. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution |
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