| 单词 | reaper |
| 例句 | “May it be mine,” the reaper prays, “beside Demeter’s altar to dig the great winnowing fan through her heaps of corn, while she stands smiling by with sheaves and poppies in her hand.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously he could pull it off alone, but maybe he wanted to see Guitar warm and joking again, his face open and smiling instead of with that grim reaper look. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Often he was able to enter her presence in disguise, now as a rude reaper bringing her a basket of barley-ears, now as a clumsy herdsman, or a vine-pruner. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 And probably happier that I wasn’t the grim reaper. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Amish, though they did not drive cars, used plenty of tractors, reapers, balers, and other machines, and bought their gas from Mr. Klein. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He stood in the doorway, filling up the space like a broken-down grim reaper. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The hooded people turn and stare, in a wave, like a thousand grim reapers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She asked instead for barley-water flavored with mint, the cooling draught of the reaper at harvest time and also the sacred cup given the worshipers at Eleusis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the wake of the reapers’ scythes the black land showed again through the stubble, no longer moist and rich but bone-hard, desiccated, and beginning to crack in all directions under the burning sun. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Today, thanks to the white reaper, Wayne Robbins alone could keep up with the task. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I have a suspicion the reaper has already paid number B-19 a visit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I knew it. Soon’s I get two dimes back to back, here you come. More regular than the reaper. Do Hoover know about you?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “White reaper, my dad called it,” he said as we took in the destruction. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The last person I need to see right now is a know-it-all grim reaper. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In fact, he welcomed death so readily into his lines that the reaper became a vaguely cheerful figure in the Strandian landscapes. Mark Strand, a revelatory poet of love and death 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Least likely to: Evoke the clang of the Yankee reaper. New band of the day: Naytronix (No 1,363) 2012-10-02T16:23:25Z George on “Dead Like Me” decides to join the undead as a grim reaper. TV Keeps the Faith With Supernatural Procedurals. Again. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The Book Thief is a very unusual book as it is narrated by Death, the grim reaper. My top 5 movie adaptations of 2013 2013-04-01T08:00:00Z And when the grim reaper turns up mid-production, it's even worse. Cory Monteith: how will Glee producers deal with his death? 2013-07-16T10:50:20Z Ms. Council is making jam with pineapples or cantaloupe instead of peaches, and customers will have to wait until next year for her peach reaper sauce, made with Georgia peaches and Carolina reaper peppers. What’s a Georgia Summer Without Peaches? Not So Sweet. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z In almost every way he seems to have changed: The boyish Republican moderate has become the taciturn grim reaper of the Senate. Mitch McConnell doesn’t care what you think. He just wants to win. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z "It's all summed up gorgeously in the final episode in which this reaper of souls talks about why we love hearing stories. It's to distract us from our mortality. That's what ties everything together." Tim Blake Nelson, Coen Brothers muse, “never expected to have a career as a film actor” 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z There are names like White Fang, Time Bomb and Monster Power, which is decorated with an image of the grim reaper with a scythe. ?Heroin Stamp Project? to Open at White Box Gallery 2010-06-22T22:37:00Z For example, King Edmund II, who was stabbed by a Viking hiding in his pit latrine, receives little sympathy from the reaper. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z Made from reaper peppers, one of the hottest around. A gift guide holiday mix from van adventures to James Bond 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z It later morphed into a script about a police officer who, facing down a cartel after his brother’s apparent suicide, adopts the persona of El Chicano, a.k.a. “the ghetto grim reaper.” An All-Latino Cast? Hollywood Passed, but ‘El Chicano’ Is Coming 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z But with the treasury resolutely blinkered by a grim reaper mask, the pooling of resources and ideas becomes an even greater imperative. Team dreams: how can theatremakers collaborate? 2011-04-06T14:19:18Z Adult concerns do crop up occasionally: Where Did the Party Go tackles rock-star disillusion, Just One Yesterday does wistful nostalgia, and Death Valley suggests we all embrace hedonism because the grim reaper lurks. Fall Out Boy: Save Rock and Roll – review 2013-04-18T20:25:01Z Dan makes many references to the gruagach, a mythical figure who comes across as some blurry combination of grim reaper, devoted protector and mischievous devil on the shoulder: This Novel Recounts a Haunted Sibling Relationship in Epic Verse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z For others, maintaining optimum fitness offers a displacement activity and a last stand against the grim reaper. My parents drink far too much. What can I do? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The first defining feature of the last six months would seem to be that the grim reaper has been both exceptionally busy and horribly selective. Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb tries to keep cheerful in the grim reaper's looming shadow 2010-05-19T14:56:00Z Perhaps, you could say, the grim reaper on the newsstand delivered nemesis in the end. The norms of Norman Rockwell 2011-01-30T22:00:03Z It’s a mystery of sorts, though we know from the start that it was the grim reaper with the pot belly and the leather thong who killed the mayor of Shuckton, Ontario. Week Ahead: Aug. 15 ? 21 2010-08-12T14:23:00Z Colbert did one last round of his segment The Word, cheated death against “Grimmy” the grim reaper and finally flew off in Santa’s sleigh. Watch Highlights From the "Colbert Report" Finale 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z You might think singer-songwriters were too well-behaved to encounter death all that often, but you'd be wrong – the grim reaper needs to take some time off there, too. Mike Starr and the deadliest musical genre 2011-03-10T08:15:27Z I wanted to cloak it not in the specter of death — the grim reaper, this thing that is feared and that is doomed — but in more of the contemplative version. | Colin Stetson feat. Justin Vernon 2013-06-21T13:02:03Z In Devon, another area popular with tourists, a man was reportedly spotted wearing a grim reaper costume and holding a sign that read, “Welcome holidaymakers.” Men hang sign in tourist destination telling tourists to 'turn around and f--- off' 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Like Pearl Jam's music at the time, Klausen's early posters are powerful but overserious, overdramatic, fraught with shredded American flags, spilled blood and grim reapers. Pearl Jam poster artist Brad Klausen has a new book: 'From a Basement in Seattle' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z Another much-loved repeat sketch is Stupid Deaths, which sees a comical grim reaper processing recently departed historical characters at the "Death Check-In" counter and then laughing mercilessly at the farcical manner in which they died. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z On his excellent supporting national tour, he occasionally let friends don grim reaper costumes and prowl the audience perimeters. Pop, Rock & Cabaret for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Ellen Muth stars as George, a surly young woman who dies in a freak accident at 18 and is recruited to be a grim reaper. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Eventually a grim reaper joined the small protest, but the vigil was slowly growing, spilling into the busy pike, conquesting the median, venturing toward the other side. The president is sick but his followers feel great 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z As is also regularly the case in plays set there, the reaper will pay a house call before the curtain has fallen. Theater Review: ‘Outside Mullingar,’ by John Patrick Shanley, Opens 2014-01-24T03:00:03Z A man at a gathering opens the door to the grim reaper and says, “I do hope you’re here for the circumcision.” Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z And three: He was dying of the consumption that had long shadowed him, a reaper’s scythe hovering over its quarry. Perspective | The perfect poem for Valentine’s Day 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It’s as if some evil grim reaper came regularly to mow down any female who dared to peek her head above the mandated allotment. Lean in? Here’s why the glass ceiling still exists 2013-09-15T10:59:00Z And the ghost of Sir Arthur George Jennings, who dies after being pushed off a balcony, reappears after each significant killing, offering meditations on death like some benign reaper. Gang stories 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z That was before my own brush with the grim reaper. Arts & Leisure Preview: Is There a Future for Arts Criticism? 2010-03-31T18:33:00Z But he cannot help but think that the horse’s repeated purposeful behavior is a sign that the grim reaper may be on Jacques’s tail. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z The new record from Metallica takes its inspiration from the failures of the human spirit — the suicidal reaper resting within every heart. Art is not an escape — it’s our most powerful weapon against apathy 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z He fought depression, what he and his father sometimes referred to, in letters, as “the glum reaper.” Review: In ‘Stories I Tell Myself,’ Life as Hunter S. Thompson’s Son 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It's not the first time Iggy Pop has stared down the grim reaper in song, but he's rarely sounded as vulnerable as he does here. Iggy and the Stooges: Ready to Die – review 2013-04-25T14:29:01Z Can capitalism — fearsome, proven reaper of the planet’s natural systems — actually work as a force for conservation? T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z The images revealed a tapestry of tattoos, including several stylized skulls, howling wolves, a grim reaper, a snake curling around one arm, flames and spiderwebs. Auburn officer's violent past won't be evidence at his murder trial, judge rules 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z As fans awaited a dramatic “Love is Blind” reunion special on Netflix, they were met with TV’s equivalent of the grim reaper: buffering. Netflix livestream issues force fans to choose between ‘Love is Blind’ and ‘Succession’ 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z But after finishing his project, the 28-year-old design manager at a California fintech company found himself caught in the crossfire of an escalating public debate: Are artificial intelligence tools a grim reaper for the arts? He made a children’s book using AI. Then came the rage. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The Great War was raging, revolutionary fervor building, the grim reaper never busier. Review | Up close with the sexiest nudes in modern art 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Gerino’s business card lists the different types of peppers he grows, their names redolent of the punch they pack: Carolina reaper, yellow brain attack, death spiral, dragon’s breath. Perspective | Friendship Place is on a mission to help homeless veterans 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z “Many parents are OK with children dressing as assassins, evil villains or grim reapers, yet they seldom take the costume choice to mean anything more than playful and fun.” EXPLAINER: Drag queens and how they got pulled into politics 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z In 1988, her father, a retired schoolteacher, got a big order for sheets — which usually depict festive skeletons, skulls, grim reapers or Catrinas — to decorate city government offices. Mexican artisans preserve Day of the Dead decorations 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z For Democrats, independents and disillusioned Republicans, every bad road leads to and from Mitch McConnell, an architect of division, a champion of inequality and the self-proclaimed "grim reaper" of progressive legislation. Mitch McConnell's biggest challenge: Is the "Grim Reaper" nearing the final curtain? 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Instead, the man known best for his ability to block and kill legislation — he once proclaimed himself the “grim reaper” — has felt the political ground shift under his feet. With Midterms Looming, McConnell’s Woes Pile Up 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z More farmers began using it in the 1840s, and greater demand for the McCormick reaper led McCormick and his brother to establish the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago, where labor was more readily available. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “The reaper knocks on my door/’Cause I’m addicted to more,” she sings. New this week: ‘House of the Dragon,’ Lakers doc and Lovato 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Memes and jokes featuring tombstones and grim reapers abounded. Internet Explorer Is Shutting Down in a Burst of Nostalgia 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But the irrational exuberance has given way to darker humor: One recent post included an image of the grim reaper slaying low interest rates and stock market bulls. Amateur Investors Rode the Bull Up. Now the Bear Looms. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z CinemaCon comes amid signs that investors are starting to sour a bit on the streaming business, which has been positioned as both the grim reaper and the savior of movies, depending on who’s talking. After streaming's worst week, Hollywood bows at the altar of cinema 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z By the 1850s, McCormick’s mechanical reaper had enabled farmers to vastly increase their output. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z As a writer for the Evening Star put it: “Despite a lot of wishful thinking in the non-Communist world, the reaper was a long time catching up with Joseph Stalin.” Perspective | When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, this D.C. restaurant celebrated 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z “Millions of unsuspecting people have the grim reaper looking over their shoulder and they have no idea how close they actually are to dying from taking a single pill,” Orange County Dist. Two men arrested in largest drug bust in O.C. in more than a decade, authorities say 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The growing use of farm machinery like the new McCormick reaper increased their productivity. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Surgeons used skin from a man's arm - including a tattoo of the grim reaper - to reconstruct his tongue and voice box in a life-saving operation. Grim reaper tattoo used in throat cancer reconstruction 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The reaper mechanized the labor-intensive use of scythes to harvest wheat. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Another important farm machine, the mechanical reaper, was invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The reaper helped farmers plant more seeds and grow more grain to sell. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The latest big company to confront the fact that the grim reaper spares no one and no thing is Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook. Column: Is this the beginning of Facebook's downfall? 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z It was this part of the procedure that saw the grim reaper moved from Mr Reilly's forearm to the back of his throat. Grim reaper tattoo used in throat cancer reconstruction 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In case the term is unfamiliar, the house kindly explained that it’s based on a legend from the Middle Ages that suggests you can never escape the grim reaper. Kim Jones back on runway as Fendi channels celestial Rome 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Large horses pulled the reaper across the fields. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “When it gets grim,” Reid recalled telling his quarterback, “be the grim reaper and go get it.” Chiefs win back-and-forth thriller in OT as Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen usher in a new era 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z On the sideline before that sequence, Reid told Mahomes: “When it’s grim, go be the grim reaper.” Kansas City wins in overtime with a Kelce touchdown catch. 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Dr John Collin, the maxillofacial consultant who led on the reconstruction element of the surgery, said: "I'm sorry we spoilt Colin's tattoo, but it's always good to get one over on the grim reaper." Grim reaper tattoo used in throat cancer reconstruction 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z If you want to survive covid, there’s only one clear option: Get the shots and cheat the reaper. Opinion | My week with omicron 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Mahomes was the grim reaper for the Bills on Sunday night. Chiefs' Andy Reid reveals epic advice to Patrick Mahomes before team sent playoff game into OT 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z “When it’s grim, be the grim reaper, and go get it,” Reid said. Chiefs rally past Buffalo 42-36 in OT in wild playoff game 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Before his players took the field for the final 13 seconds, he told his quarterback that “when it’s grim, become the grim reaper and go get it.” Analysis | Inside the wildest two minutes of the NFL season 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Diaz has carefully cultivated an image of a rogue fighter who answers only to himself, while Chimaev is keen to build his persona as the welterweight division's grim reaper. Usman v Adesanya - MMA fights we want to see in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z When a reaper collects workaholic Wallace Price at his funeral, he’s far from ready to leave his life. Moira Macdonald and Seattle Times books writers pick their favorite books of 2021 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z A cartoon on FreedomWorks' website shows the grim reaper, with an IRS briefcase in one hand and a scythe in the other, stalking a businessman at a bus stop. The Great Inheritors: How three families shielded their fortunes from taxes for generations 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Once again, the grim reaper appeared to be poking his head out from the tunnel, typical for how seasons tended to end for the San Diego and Los Angeles Chargers for an entire generation. What We Learned From Week 13 in the N.F.L. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z A reaper drone, which took off from the Middle East, struck the militant who was in a car with an Islamic State associate. U.S. attacks Islamic State after Afghan airport blast 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z “Guess the grim reaper got the last laugh,” the card went on inside, adding a smiley face and welcoming “one more dead Republican.” A GOP official’s COVID-19 death went viral. Then came calls for vaccination — and bitter divides 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Dressed all in black — note the reaper resemblance — Newton raised both arms into the air, turned and belted a guttural growl. Fear the reaper: How UW running back Richard Newton rebuilt himself after controversial benching 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Assuming an avuncular tone, the elder crow apologizes for smacking you on your noggin before going on to explain that it, too, used to work as a reaper. Review | ‘Death’s Door’: A clever and fun Zelda homage 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z His efforts are raising a big question on Capitol Hill: Just what is the self-described “grim reaper” thinking? Will McConnell lift roadblock of Biden for infrastructure? 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z But instead of words and gestures that speak of can-do optimism, she looks and sounds as though she is standing sentinel at democracy’s door trying to keep the grim reaper at bay. Perspective | Liz Cheney and the sad face of the Republican Party 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z At the time, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, then the majority leader, relished his role as the “grim reaper” presiding over the Senate’s “graveyard” of House Democratic bills. Biden’s $1.9T rescue signed, agenda now a slog in Congress 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Indeed, through nine fall practices, the reaper is running well. Fear the reaper: How UW running back Richard Newton rebuilt himself after controversial benching 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z He also will have to outmaneuver Mr. McConnell, who likes to call himself the “grim reaper” because of a long history of using his mastery of Senate strategy to obstruct Democratic initiatives. For Chuck Schumer, a Dream Job Comes With Tall Orders 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z In another, federal investigators alleged a prison guard beat a handcuffed prisoner in a medical unit while shouting, “I am the reaper of death, now say my name!” Alabama asks judge to dismiss federal prison lawsuit 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z With the Democrats failing to take the Senate, the party is grappling with the challenge of governing alongside the self-styled “grim reaper”, the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, who could strangle Democratic legislation. Biden gets down to work, but Trump still not budging | First Thing 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z In piecing together Oraetta, whom she thinks of as “a female grim reaper,” she spent three days with a movement coach. Early on, critics dismissed her. Now Jessie Buckley is having the last laugh 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z “Weather forecasters across the county are sounding like the grim reaper these days.” La Niña may signal scant relief from California's seemingly endless loop of hot, dry weather 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z As a result, and despite the Great Recession’s grim reaper claiming a key employer, Washington Mutual, downtown was in amazing shape. Self-inflicted wounds make Seattle’s business losses worse 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z A protester in a grim reaper costume held a “176k” sign Sunday as President Trump’s motorcade entered the president’s golf property in Sterling, Virginia. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti sees progress on COVID-19, blames feds for Latino woe 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Literary fiction that explores contagion is thin on the ground, especially when compared with literature about that other grim reaper – war. The Covid novels are arriving. And they'll be a warning to future generations | Laura Spinney 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z To ram the point home, Holbein created a series of woodcuts called The Dance of Death, in which the skeletal reaper interrupts people while they are in the middle of ruling, loving or ploughing. Where are the bones of Hans Holbein? I spent lockdown solving art's grisliest mystery 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z On Saturday, a lawyer dressed as the grim reaper was outside the Doral hotel. As the Virus Surges in South Florida, a Trump Resort Joins the Rush to Reopen 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Pushing 80, Dylan weaves much candlelit gloom through “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” as if he’s staring at the reaper himself. The 17 best lyrics from Bob Dylan's new album, 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The developments bode well for Democrats, who view Arizona as a must-win in order to flip the Senate and remove the self-proclaimed "grim reaper" Mitch McConnell from his powerful perch as majority leader. GOP's Martha McSally continues to lose ground in Arizona as she bets her political future on Trump 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Democrats could now gang up on McConnell and portray him as “the grim reaper” again – willing to block virtually any legislation coming over from the House. Reporter's Notebook: Battle over House Dems' coronavirus aid bill sends these messages 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z The second, a melancholy ballad called “I Contain Multitudes,” features Dylan sighing into the microphone like an exhausted reaper. Is Bob Dylan dropping a new album tonight? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “The grim reaper represents death. This is a deadly virus. It’s a global pandemic,” he said in a televised news broadcast. The beach-going Grim Reaper on his Florida protest: 'Someone has to stand up' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Another aide paired his seersucker suit — a favorite warm-weather sartorial choice in the Senate — with black gloves and a mask, exuding a kind of Brooks Brothers meets the grim reaper look. Senators Descend on Quiet Capitol, Sacrificing Pomp for Safety’s Sake 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z On “Multitudes,” Dylan sighs into the microphone like an exhausted reaper. Listen: Bob Dylan shares another new song, 'I Contain Multitudes' 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Enough, perhaps, to forever etch the reaper’s name on its tombstone. Canada’s Newest Tyrannosaur Is Named for a ‘Reaper of Death’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z After calling him the "grim reaper," Pelosi hit McConnell for griping that the House’s article of impeachments against President Trump would interfere with the Senate passing the new trade deal. Pelosi does impression of 'grim reaper' Mitch McConnell just as impeachment trial kicks off 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But she notes that it’s McConnell who calls himself the “grim reaper” in his Senate graveyard of House-passed bills he refuses to bring forward for a vote. Pelosi: Power of gavel means Trump is ‘impeached forever’ 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z An impermeable block has crumbled, my muse being, I guess, the grim reaper. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Not sure what the costume is for that – perhaps a grim reaper’s cowl, although that would make Corbyn look like he was playing Ben Kenobi in a panto version of Star Wars. Fridge-hiding, the final frontier in election WTF-ery | Marina Hyde 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z One showed the grim reaper at a man’s apartment door, with a scythe in hand and “Trump” campaign button on his cloak. Dana Fradon, prolific New Yorker cartoonist with a satirical edge, dies at 97 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It was the beginning of what became known as "the American system" of manufacturing, and which produced Isaac Singer's sewing machines, Cyrus McCormick's reapers and harvesters, and - about a century later - Henry Ford's Model T. The spectacular power of interchangeable parts 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z There are songs to clear the dance floor, with death, dying and the grim reaper among the topics, and the tunes benefit from smart, often funny lyrics always crafted with care. Review: Kacy & Clayton’s music reflects their rural roots 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Imagine describing yourself as the ‘grim reaper,' that he’s going to bury all this legislation,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attacking her Senate counterpart with the nickname that he hates. Analysis | The Daily 202: Police officers keep getting shot by people with criminal records who are not allowed to own guns 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. McConnell, who has cast himself as “the grim reaper” for progressive policies, has refused to take them up. McConnell Promised to End Senate Gridlock. Instead, Republicans Are Stuck in Neutral. 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z We may be almost a full year away from the Democratic convention in Milwaukee, but the grim reaper that stalks the land of TV debates is ready to claim the souls of several campaigns. Biden came out to fight – and then the desperate brawlers turned on him | Richard Wolffe 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Colbert then joked: “It’s also the slogan for the new steak reaper ranch fries burrito”. Samantha Bee on Mueller's testimony: 'Like watching depressed paint dry' 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z He relishes his reputation as the “grim reaper” of the Senate who blocks Democratic legislation and liberal ambitions. Democrats cast McConnell as villain in bid to win Senate and energize liberals 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z “We sent our legislation to the Senate. ... 'Moscow Mitch' says that he is the ‘grim reaper.’ Analysis | The Daily 202: Police officers keep getting shot by people with criminal records who are not allowed to own guns 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In remarks during interviews and on social media, McConnell vowed to uphold his role as the "grim reaper" of the Democratic socialist agenda as long Republicans maintain their hold of the Senate. Statehood push for DC, Puerto Rico part of Dems' 'full-bore socialism,' McConnell says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z And you also might have watched a guy who wore a bucket hat, sometimes had a mustache and tortured his caddie with one of those Carolina reaper chips. In praise of Joel Dahmen, underground fantasy legend about to go mainstream - Golf Digest 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Cuckoo Rooster is now open in Agoura Hills for neighborhood fans of Nashville hot chicken, with spice levels from “naked” to “reaper.” Cocktails at Alameda Cocktail Club and Firehouse Hotel opens in DTLA 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The staff of the reaper’s scythe was an AK-47, the blade an American flag. Dave Eggers: why Donald Trump could win again 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z I was happy he defied the reaper and carried on. Stan Lee remembered as 'the happy huckster that comics needed' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z McConnell explained what he meant by calling himself the "grim reaper." Statehood push for DC, Puerto Rico part of Dems' 'full-bore socialism,' McConnell says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z As a grim reaper carrying out a metaphorical reckoning, Michael had questionable biases. Film Review: 40 years later, ‘Halloween’ slashes again 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The game puts you in the role of Neku, an amnesiac loner who finds himself in a strange, alternate reality version of Shibuya where supernatural beings called reapers task humans with completing various missions. The World Ends with You is a strange, stylish RPG you shouldn’t miss 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z A man walked by wearing a sleeveless denim jacket with a rendering of a grim reaper on the back. Dave Eggers: why Donald Trump could win again 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z This is often derided as hypocrisy, but it is right and fitting that when the reaper calls, we call truces. It’s right to lower the flag for John McCain. Rituals of grief help us all | Julian Baggini 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Throughout the clip, XXXTentacion is confronted by a hooded figure - presumably the grim reaper - who challenges him to fight his demons. XXXTentacion video predicts his funeral 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “I don’t see it destroying jobs grim reaper style,” he said. Killer robots will only exist if we are stupid enough to let them 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Half of the mural features negative imagery, like the grim reaper and a coffin, while the other half features positive images, including families and college graduates. Des Moines residents raise money to update mural 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Concomitantly humans are far less likely to see themselves as helpless against the grim reaper. Life is too precious to worry about death 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “Sometimes people joke we are the grim reaper because we show up at all the death scenes.” 27 Navajo criminal investigators to cover 27K miles 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Like the grim reaper, vultures circle overhead when death draws near. We Should Embrace Scavengers and Predators 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z For every plague, horseman and reaper, there are several sparkling books on how we are subduing them. Steven Pinker recommends books to make you an optimist 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z They were all dressed like the grim reaper. Barry Bennell: the predatory Pied Piper who made stars and shattered lives 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z His father was a tax lawyer and a distant relation of the storied McCormick family that owned the Chicago Tribune and developed the McCormick reaper. Robert McCormick Adams, who led Smithsonian into era of ‘confrontation, experimentation and debate,’ dies at 91 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Esterley’s father invented a farm implement that rivaled the McCormick reaper. Historic home on Capitol Hill retains its 1892 ‘DNA’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Blessedly, they momentarily keep the grim reaper at bay. Recovery schools need empirical data 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon used to be portrayed in the media as the great manipulator, a svengali – or, on Saturday Night Live, as the grim reaper. From scary svengali to sad crank: my unhappy hour with Steve Bannon | Tim Dowling 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The shirt features the Metropolitan Police Department logo, a grim reaper and a symbol Law for Black Lives said it considered racist. Photo shows D.C. police officers displaying flag that advocates violence, complaint says 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z “As the anonymous slayings of criminals grabs the media’s attention, the city wonders if this deadly vigilante is a guardian angel or a grim reaper,” a synopsis provided by MGM says on its YouTube page. Bruce Willis’ ‘Death Wish’ trailer triggers critics; called ‘nakedly fascist’ and ‘alt-right’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, planters clogged the parking lot at the office of the governor of Baja California state with tractors, reapers and other farming equipment. Mexican Farmers Fight to Oust Border Brewery 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Bannon, with hood and scythe, was portrayed as the grim reaper. With McCarthy playing Spicer, ‘SNL’ cranks up Trump satire 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z His current obsession is finding a reliable supplier of the Carolina reaper—a hybrid of the five-alarm ghost pepper—named the hottest chili pepper in the world in 2013. A Modern Spice Merchant Requires Calm at Customs 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z But has the grim reaper really claimed the souls of more notable people than usual in 2016? Have more famous people died in 2016? - BBC News 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z "It's been a frosty reception in some places, you're walking in like the grim reaper... but they've been welcoming here," one of them says. BHS closure: Last day at a British High Street stalwart - BBC News 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z So does his conflicting tattoos, which include ink of both Jesus and the grim reaper. Compulsion to rape and kill: Inside killer’s mind 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The idea for a lawn mower coupled a miniature gasoline engine with a miniature mechanical reaper. Why the West (and the Rest) Got Rich 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Rock’n’roll beyond the grave As the grim reaper goes about his work in rock and roll, a profitable new business has sprung up managing music estates. Thousands flee 'apocalyptic' wildfires as Canada mounts rescue convoy 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Tycoons are particularly keen on schemes to cheat the grim reaper. Crazy diamonds 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z In it he described an exchange between the late manga artist and the grim reaper. Shigeru Mizuki mourned: 'Death of a master' - BBC News 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It was easy to find the lost teeth of the reaper, glue them back with clause and brace and remembered fragments of code. Copyfactory : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z How did the new boss feel when he saw his new team temporarily wrestle the sickle out of the hands of the grim reaper? Angels already start working toward next season 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The injury reaper comes in all forms and sizes. Injuries more than final scores tell tale of weekend's losers in college football 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z But sometimes the Darwinian reaper misses a species or two within such a group and these, the last of their kind, cling on to existence to remind the world of the way it once was. Slippery customers 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Tall, darkly handsome and exuding patrician confidence and breeding, Mr. Blair was a scion of a prominent and moneyed Chicago family that owed its fortune to the invention of the mechanical reaper. William McC. Blair Jr., Democratic political confidant, dies at 98 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z In Dismaland, everything one expects from a funfair has taken a dark and sarcastic turn: A grim reaper performs donuts in a bumper car. Enter Dismaland: Banksy’s New Disneyland Parody Brings Life to British Coastal Town 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Gonzalez, whose pen name is "Matador," or "Killer," bade farewell to his father in a cartoon Friday showing the grim reaper, scythe in hand, asking his father why his bags are packed. 79-year-old becomes first Colombian to die by euthanasia with government backing 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The police officers rummage for drugs and guns but will settle for Nike Cortez sneakers — a gang favorite — or any symbol of affiliation, like a little grim reaper scribbled on a bedroom wall. El Salvador is on pace to become the hemisphere’s most deadly nation 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z There are an abundance of statistics to support the idea that digital banner ads don’t need to fear the reaper. How to Monetize Your App: Banner Ads Vs Native Ads vs In-App Purchases 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Several were dressed as grim reapers or carried coffins representing the death of healthcare. Russians protest against health cuts 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z However, when the battalion was reactivated in 2007, "Walking Dead" was once again embraced and the battalion's official Marine Corps website currently bears the grim reaper design. 'Walking Dead' Marine battalion to be deactivated 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z His grandson Cyrus McCormick was the inventor of the reaper that revolutionized American agriculture. Residents say warehouses pose threat to rural life 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z To applaud every dead person on the roster would've seemed patronising and over-compensatory, or downright ghoulish, like actively cheering on the grim reaper. Among a crowd of political automatons, Nigel Farage is like a wacky neighbour in a sitcom 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z To do that, they became the grim reaper. Why the Seahawks win: A look at the culture they’ve created 2014-01-08T03:36:33Z I've reached the age when the grim reaper is decimating my list, so I depend on those still capable of writing, to remind me who I used to be. 10 poignant pleas over Christmas cards 2013-12-19T12:10:54Z Its insignia depicts a cloaked grim reaper carrying a scythe. 'Walking Dead' Marine battalion to be deactivated 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z For still others, technology is the grim reaper of business lines and models. How an Involved CIO Can Help Your Organization Embrace Innovation and Avoid Disruption 2013-12-18T19:38:00Z The Dark Side Vampires, grim reapers, devils, witches and other powerful, predatory characters are top costume picks across all adult age groups this year, as they have been for the past five years. What Your Halloween Spending—Particularly, Your Choice of Costume—Says About You 2013-10-16T19:23:52Z I'm going round thinking: 'This is dangerous… no it's not, it's great… this is dangerous… no it's not, it's great…' "I do love it, but the reaper is on your back all the way round." Wet and wild at the North West 200 2013-05-20T10:51:13Z Members of this group of spiders, which are found worldwide, include the reaper or brown spider. Hope for jab against spider bites 2013-05-09T00:53:50Z And often, a little tastelessness in the name of the recently departed is really just healthy nose-thumbing at the grim reaper. Thatcher, Warren haters: Don’t cheer for death 2013-04-09T20:08:00Z Then, between levels, the souls of the dead harvested in the action can be spent to upgrade your grim reaper’s office, hire staff, upgrade troop types and so on, adding a level of strategy. Demo Mortis - Death Inc. Demo Is Kicking On Kickstarter 2013-02-19T12:56:52Z Some dressed as grim reapers, including one carrying a paper scythe with the words “tar sands.” Crowd marches to voice opposition to Keystone pipeline 2013-02-18T00:05:25Z Some argue that Peterson has been banging this drum for years--decades --and yet the grim reaper has not arrived. Fareed Zakaria: The Baby Boom and Financial Doom 2012-12-13T13:35:34Z His body was a canvas of dark, mythical tattoos: a grim reaper, dragons, Nordic warriors, castles and “some kind of deadly insect,” said Paul J. Browne, the New York Police Department’s chief spokesman on Thursday. Central Park Rape Suspect Was Sought in a 2002 Murder 2012-09-14T18:56:23Z His body was a canvas of dark, mythical tattoos: a grim reaper, dragons, Nordic warriors, castles and “some kind of deadly insect,” said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. Drifter Is Charged With Raping 73-Year-Old Woman in Central Park 2012-09-14T00:55:13Z Mr Death was just telling us about his work as a reaper... Demo Mortis - Death Inc. Demo Is Kicking On Kickstarter 2013-02-19T12:56:52Z Some of these miniature reapers ultimately find their way into the brain. Brain parasites, California's hidden health problem 2012-09-06T13:45:02.997Z It’s the hunt for a rogue reaper that’s indoctrinated a mining colony. Mass Effect 3: Leviathian DLC Will Change The Ending..Again 2012-08-03T19:44:44Z We’ve already killed a bunch of reapers, after all, and I’m getting tired of it. It's Time to Make Mass Effect Without Commander Shepard 2012-06-28T16:20:37Z As for the rogue reaper becoming a war asset, I don’t think many are going to replay through the whole ending with.01% more preparedness. The Way Forward for Bioware with More Mass Effect 3 DLC 2012-06-27T16:02:37Z But Admiral Hackett’s role means that we’ll be seeing more of the fleet’s battle against the reapers, which I definitely felt was missing from the original ending. These Three Characters Are Coming Back For Mass Effect 3's Expanded Ending 2012-05-21T15:50:15Z The introduction of the mechanical reaper in the early 19th-century helped speed this process, but it was the knotting device that would truly reduce the resources needed to bring the harvest in. The Illegal Trade of Twine 2012-04-23T15:15:11.257Z The plough succeeded the hoe; the harvester or the reaper and binder took the place of sickle and scythe; and the slab humpy or bark hut gave way to the comfortable farmhouse. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Flux of men, women, children, reapers, sowers, which comes first? Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z But one hears not the click of the reaper. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z It seemed that her body was like the small triangle of uncut corn round which the reaper relentlessly hums. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z The Jehovah of Israel destroyed the honest-hearted reapers, to the number of fifty thousand threescore and ten, for their impudence. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Now the harvest’s o’er, And the grain we store, And the stacks we pull, And the barn is full, The merry, merry reapers sing again, And jocund shouts the happy harvest swain, Hallo Large! The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z The sheds and the reaper and binder and thresher went just after, and the orchards and fences as well. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z It was the time of the gathering of the harvest, and the fields were filled with reapers, men and women, young men and maidens. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z None, none, a poor unworthy reaper, The Harvest is his Graces. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject 2012-03-26T02:00:33.817Z Greatly troubled, he had Bernard prays for and obtains the ability to reap recourse to prayer and, with much weeping, implored the Lord to grant him the strength to become a reaper. 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 Now we join in song With our voices strong, And our hearts are high With our good supply, We merry, merry reapers joyful come To shout and sing our happy Harvest-Home, Hallo Large! The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z How joyous the reapers, their harvest songs singing As they see the maid bringing the flagon and horn; And the goddess of plenty benedictions is flinging Over meadows and pastures, and her barley and corn. Random Rhymes and Rambles 2012-03-21T02:00:31.003Z I am told that the attempt to introduce a mowing machine or a patent reaper would make a revolution in the island. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z If you purchase a McCormick's reaper in this country, it will cost you about $200.00. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z In the autumn he used to return to town as sun-burnt as though he had been sharing the daily toil of the reapers and gleaners. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z This is asked not only of friends and visitors, but of strangers likewise, should they pause to look at the reapers as they bind up the sheaves. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z Our country is wide, and enlarging almost every year; the field of benevolence is white to harvest, and where are the reapers, who, like Miss Dix, will make their "lives sublime?" Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z Who can wonder that the gentle reapers linger over the rice blades while they are proposing or answering questions on which their whole life may depend? From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z 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 An orchard path that tramping feet For half a century have beat; Here to the fields at sun-up went The reapers. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z Take hold of your reeds, youths and maidens! and see Who the kissers and kiss’d of the reapers shall be. Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z The reapers sang it as they reaped and while Boaz was walking through his grain field. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z Here, as in Western Java, it was the time of the harvest, and the fields were filled with joyous reapers. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z We might illustrate this by numerous facts, but will content ourselves with reference to sewing machines and reapers. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Go, reaper, Speed and reap, Go take the harvest Of the plough: The wheat is standing Broad and deep, The barley glumes Are golden now. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Now loosen your hands—now loosen, and see Who the kissers and kiss’d of the reapers shall be. Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z The action of the reapers and the words that were spoken gave evidence enough that grain was growing there. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z It was not the reaper Death who was sharpening his scythe, but the gardener. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z When a farmer purchases a reaper for himself, and a sewing machine for his wife, paying for the two $270.00, he pays as royalty to the inventor, $135.00. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z I will sing to the tanfaced reapers With the wren in the heat of the sun, And my father will sing the scythe-song That joys for the harvest done. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z In August the furmety pot welcomes home the harvest cart, and the garland of flowers crowns the captain of the reapers. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z In the second scene a big earthenware jar was needed from which the reapers could drink. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z He is only a gleaner following the reapers; but he manages to pick up a great many grains of wisdom which they overlook. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z There is a duty on some of the material used in the manufacture of the reaper. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Light is to the photographer what the sickle is to the shearer—a good reaper can cut well with an indifferent sickle, but an indifferent reaper never gets a good sickle in his hand. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z In some parts the reapers threw their sickles at the reserved handful, and he who succeeded in cutting it down shouted, “I have her!” England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z The reapers wore the same little brown slips which had been worn in every play that had been given. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z A fortnight ago a girl, ten years old, going out from ——, to carry bread to the reapers, was abducted. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z It had to be made with the ax, the plow, the reaper, the mower; in every form of industry; all to produce these splendid results. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Some crops are still cut by scythes; a reaper and binder is less common than the simple reaper which cuts the corn and leaves it to be gathered and tied by a harvest hand. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z It is thus evident that the tremendous service done to the civilized world by the invention of the McCormick reaper was appreciated years ago. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Boaz: Go, bid the reapers not to harm her, and bid them let fall purposely some of the handfuls of grain for her. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z Wheat and barley grow in nearly all the valleys, and clothe the hill-slopes, but where are the sowers and the reapers, and where are the barns? Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z They were mingled with the reaper's song and the shout of the pioneer. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z The child had grown; and at harvest-time he went to the field with his father and the reapers, when suddenly what we should call a sunstroke fell upon him. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z To-day the McCormick works at Chicago turn out yearly, and209 have turned out for several years, more than one hundred thousand reapers and mowers. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Let thine eyes be on the reapers, and do thou glean that which they leave behind. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z In any case, the amount came from her, and was received by Šeritum, who seems to have been the reaper referred to. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Now it had gone down, parts of it as before the knife of a reaper, while the rest lay crushed and flung this way and that, as though an army had marched through it. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z It was again the autumn of the year, and the reapers were at work in the fields. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z He devised and built a thresher, a hemp-breaker, some mill improvements, and in 1816 he made and tried a mechanical reaper. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Boaz: Come hither at meal times and eat of the bread and dip thy morsel in the vinegar with my reapers. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z This year at Melbourne Park, he showed that he's that same grim reaper even when he's not in the same tip-top form. Opinion: Djokovic is most dangerous when he's vulnerable 2012-01-29T18:16:53Z The reaper, for his part, never budged from his attitude. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z And now the season of the barley harvest had arrived, and the reapers went forth with their sickles to cut down the bearded and bending grain. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z A schoolmaster named Ogle is said to have built a reaper in 1822, but, according to his own admission, it would not work. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z The reapers made their sickles of cardboard and covered them with gold or silver paper or painted them. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z I'm afraid David wouldn't let me drive the reaper. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z The sneer stung the reaper to a fury. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The reapers were plying their glittering steel, and gathering the falling grain into sheaves. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Cyrus McCormick's plough was a success that encouraged him to take hold of the more difficult problem of the reaper. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Go not to glean in another field, but stay here by my reapers. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z Here and there tiny, snow-white farm-steadings nestled in hollows, and from these streams of reapers and gleaners spread across the fields in every direction, for it was harvest-time. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z The changed tones of those whom she had looked upon as her parents assured her that the reaper had authority and rights, could claim her, could take her away. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Kind were his words as he approached the reapers, and full of pious sentiment—for his salutation was, The Lord be with you. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z There were, however, certain defects in the reaper which caused Cyrus McCormick not to put the machine on the market. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z A sunbeam struggling through thick leaves, A reaper's song mid yellow sheaves, Less gladsome were;—my spirit grieves To think of thee, mild Isabel! Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z He had not a pice in his pocket for paying the wages of the reapers. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z The man was the reaper who had leapt from his machine and rushed toward her that morning. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Then said he to his servant who was set over the reapers: Whose damsel is this? Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z A year after its first trial, with certain improvements, the reaper cut fifty acres of wheat in so perfect and rapid a manner as to insure its practical value beyond all doubt. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Where early reapers whistled, shrill A whistle may be noted still,— The locomotive's ravings. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Then came the 'Statute of Labourers,' of 1351, to regulate wages; and this statute enacted what should be paid to haymakers, and reapers, and thrashers; to carpenters, and masons, and tilers, and plasterers. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z "Where was she born, then?" asked the reaper. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z At that time there was another prophet in the land of Judah, his name was Habakkuk, who bare for his reapers meat to the field. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z The great West, with its vast prairies, was the natural market for the reaper. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z "That's just what he did have; told me he had been caught once by a reaper, and just escaped with his life!" answered Mr. Brady promptly. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z Last night, spectres cutting down men as reapers mow the grass. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z But the statement was so easily capable of proof that the reaper would hardly have made it, had it not been true. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The Greek style—red and black and white—is a rich field waiting for the reaper. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z Realizing that while his reaper was a luxury in Virginia, it was a necessity in Ohio and Illinois, Cyrus McCormick went to Cincinnati in the autumn of 1844 and began manufacturing. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Yes; take a reaper or a mower or a trashing machine. Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906. 2011-12-08T03:00:30.010Z They'll each do ploughing at three to four acres a day, and will draw the reapers and binders when it comes to harvesting. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z "No, that's reasonable," said the reaper, and he began his story. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The solitaire in his cell is also affected by the radiant song, and he envies the reapers for their contentment and for their youth. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z The reaper had become known and the inventor rode on horseback through Illinois and Wisconsin, obtaining farmers' orders for reapers, which he offered to A.C. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Perfect stillness succeeded, save for sounds made by the restless cattle; then the banjo tinkled, and a clear voice rang out through the soft transparency of the summer night: "All day long the reapers!" The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z The grain falls right into sacks as fast as it is threshed; just as it does in those huge, combined reapers and threshers that you see on our big wheat farms. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Within the room the three people were standing, the reaper upon one side of the table, Joan and Robert Daventry close together upon the other. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z It is the song of reapers going to their daily work. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z In 1846 he had already fixed upon Chicago as the best centre of operations for the reaper business, and at the close of the year he moved there. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z In the wheatfield the golden corn falls before the sharp knives of the reaper, and the sheaves are set in stooks ready for the carrying. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Once is all it takes, choice is for monsters and lust is the grimmest reaper of all. ‘Twilight’ Vampires Greet Stork; Grim ‘Tyrannosaur’: Greg Evans 2011-11-18T03:43:59Z She understood now that when she had thought of Cynthia and compared her with the reaper, she had been thinking only of the flower and had omitted her own assiduous cultivation of the plant. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z It is sung and shouted by the maddened Canio, while the director's baton swings over the orchestra like a reaper's sickle, gathering in this full-grown theme. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Having associated his two brothers, William S. and Leander J., with him, Cyrus McCormick found time to devote himself to introducing the reaper in the Old World. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z The reaper thundered into the field, and the tired Wheat People fell gratefully before the sharp knives, for they were glad to rest. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noon-tide Flagons of home-brewed ale, ah! fair in sooth was the maiden. A Day With Longfellow 2011-11-13T03:00:15.157Z The beautiful, and glorious, and noble, have looked on me with the divine expression of love, till death, the reaper, carried to his overstocked barns my lamented harvest. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Jimmy's face falls at the reminder, for he is nearly ripe for the great harvest, and the reaper will soon come his way.... Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Ten million feet of lumber were used, chiefly in boxing and crating, as very little wood is now used in the reaper. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Under him shall a reaper be placed in the standing corn, who, while he is reaping, shall be oppressed by him. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z God had blessed the fields, and there were not reapers enough to gather in the corn. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z Our wealthy but frugal neighbour did, as we were told, and reaped the consequences—which would not have mattered much if the undeserving poor had not stood in the path of the reaper. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z As a matter of fact, Collectivism is as much easier than your old plan as mowing with a reaper is easier than mowing with a scythe. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z The whir of the American reaper is heard around the world. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z So great was the slaughter, that the wounded fell in heaps, like standing corn cut down by reapers. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z The crops are waiting; may the reapers come! Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z And well I know that they have seen the graves Of shipwreck'd sailors; for Disaster paves The fearful fields where reapers cannot reap. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z I was glad that the reapers began returning and that our conversation was brought to a close by their return, for I was fairly tired. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z Recent American travellers through Persia have described the singular effect produced upon them by seeing the McCormick reaper doing its steady work in the fields over which Haroun Al Raschid may have roamed. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Inclined platform and elevator in the reaper, to enable men binding the grain to ride with the machine—J. S. Marsh, United States, 1858. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Was it not their life of pinched pauperism that ripened them for the reaper's scythe? Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z There have the Gods assembled the might and power of the empire and it stands like corn ripe for the reaper. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z They are picking up the grain left by the reapers, seeking the little that is left on the ground. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z To the close of his life Mr. McCormick continued to supervise the business of his firm and to make the reaper more perfect. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z One summer afternoon two lazy maids fell fast asleep in the hay loft, when they ought to have been down with the reapers in the long field. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z Three or four summers ago I buried an Irish reaper, who had suddenly died in the harvest-fields. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z Then my friends will lie in their lonely graves, and I alone shall remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z And those needy ones who went for the leavings of the reapers could not be sued for trespass. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z So the reaper of 1831, as improved in 1845, achieved for its inventor a triumph which all then felt and acknowledged was not more a personal one than it was a national one. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Once he met a party of reapers seeking work. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z Then some more people came in, and talked to him, and told him the Invalid had gone to see the reapers, and tried to be kind to him. The World Turned Upside Down 2011-09-14T02:00:49.820Z And the hue of gold is deeper On the cornfields by the stream; And the sickle of the reaper Flashes brightly in his beam. Verses of Feeling and Fancy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.237Z But it is not with reaping in art, literature, or law that we are here concerned, but with the reaper as a machine, a concrete thing, a tool, an instrument of civilization. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z At a moderate estimate every McCormick reaper, and every reaper founded upon it and containing its essential features, saves the labor of six men during the ten harvest days of the year. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z At first they persisted in keeping on with 95 the work, but finally the farmer convinced them that they had been fooled, and the reapers went away sorely lamenting their misfortune. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z A voice as deep as wan waters that sweep Thro' the musical reeds of a river; A song of red reapers that bind and reap, With the ring of curved scythes that quiver. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z For now the dullest of the reapers saw that the government work was really the Mirapolitan breath of life. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z His father, Robert McCormick, a farmer of inventive mind, worked long to produce a reaper. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z It is some satisfaction to know that the inventor of the reaper lived to enjoy the fruits of his work. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z This made the poor reapers think he was a very honest, generous, and genteel master. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z I think we may safely assume that the Irish churn had a similar origin, and that in throwing the sickles the aim of the ancient reapers was to kill the spirit of the corn. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z He knew less than the humblest child who followed the reapers in the field, or began the perilous process of existence by earning casual pence in the mine or factory. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z He produced another reaper, and in the late harvest of 1831 he tested it in the wheat fields of his father's farm and in some fields of oats belonging to a neighbor. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The reaper, as a business pursuit, was yet in the distance, and the new iron industry offered large profits. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Soon the farmer to whom the grain belonged saw the reapers in his field and came to ask what they were about. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z The reapers stood at some distance, and threw their sickles at the luchter, and the man who cut it was exempt from paying his share of the feast. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z I wish to see reapers at work in Surrey fields, to stride over the windy top of Devon, to cross Wiltshire when wind and rain and mist have brought the Druids back to Stonehenge. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z It was not until 1840 that he began manufacturing reapers for the market. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z McCormick was enabled also to arrange with a firm in Brockport, N.Y., to make his reapers on a royalty, and this business provided the great wheat district of Central New York with machines. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z I’ve been working rather hard lately on an improvement in a corn reaper and binder. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z The invisible reaper moved stealthily through its crop, mowing random stalks with a keen-edged blade and littering the malignant, gray harvest aimlessly and chaotically above their once-healthy roots. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z “There’s the reapers,” said Mark; “what a lot they have cut.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z McCormick, foreseeing its future growth, located his reaper factory there. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The next year the sale of the reapers rose to seven hundred, and more than doubled in 1849. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Yes, he is working on an improvement to a corn reaper and binder. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z Rest was necessary, for the hands of these reapers in the harvest of blood had relaxed. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Gathering a few blackberries along this, they came to a gate, which alarmed them, thinking some one might see, but a careful reconnaissance showed that the reapers had finished and left that field. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z In that factory he constructed about nine hundred reapers for the harvest of 1848. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The reaper's advance in public favor was as steady on the other side of the water as here, and medals and honors were awarded McCormick at many important exhibitions. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z You know that your father is working on certain patents about a corn reaper and binder; don’t you?” Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z By the law of Moses, the owner of a field was obliged always to leave some corner uncut and not glean the ears that had escaped the reapers. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z They pluck him from his hiding place, assure him they can help, and after battling through dozens of reaper soldiers, put him aboard an escape craft. Mass Effect 3, Star Wars and the Bioware way 2011-08-05T14:33:15Z Later the same paper said of the reaper that it was "the most valuable contribution to the Exposition, and worth to the farmers of England more than the entire cost of the Exposition." Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z No great exhibition abroad or in this country passed without some of its honors falling to the share of the McCormick reaper. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to light on the portion of the field belonging unto Boaz. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z The great advances that have been made in agriculture through mowers, reapers, planters, and special seeds and fruits are entirely the results of their steadfast perseverance. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z But as the symphonic soundtrack reaches its emotional height, a gigantic reaper monster, striding between collapsed skyscrapers, aims a laser gun at the boy's ship and blows it to pieces. Mass Effect 3, Star Wars and the Bioware way 2011-08-05T14:33:15Z Other reapers had been made in the meantime, and others have been brought out subsequently. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z With a McCormick reaper a man and two horses will cut from fifteen to twenty acres of grain a day. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z And she sat beside the reapers; and they reached her parched grain, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left thereof. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z Their next essay is among the ploughed fields, where the corn is ripening and as yet no reapers are at work, so that the coast is almost clear. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The 35-year-old actor, who played the title character of the grim reaper in the darkly comic musical, has been mostly out since July 19, including missing the opening night performance and festivities on July 21. ArtsBeat: Star Departs Roundabout's 'Death Takes a Holiday' 2011-08-03T23:00:20Z An improved type of the ordinary reaper of McCormick is the self-binder, now in common use, a machine which not only reaps the stalks of grain but binds them together in sheaves. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z And in his Persians he says— But what need, I pray you now, Have we of all you ploughmen, Or carters, mowers, reapers too, Or coopers, or brass-founders? The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The two women had nothing to live on, but the Hebrew law permitted the poor to follow the reapers and to gather up the stalks that were dropped or left. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z But the weak manufacturing number drove the stock market down anyway, bringing a smile to the faces of Wall Street’s grim reapers. Wall Street's Winners and Losers in the Debt Deal 2011-08-02T00:32:07Z The Jewish fiddlers played their merry tunes in the courtyard of the castle at Hankowce, and far into the evening continued the dancing and jumping and huzzaing of the reapers. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z "And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimilech." Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The flower of the country lay struck down as the grass beneath the scythe of the reaper. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: and she said, 'Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z In the plains of Gaul, they use this quick way of reaping, and without reapers cut large fields with an ox in one day. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z He gently drew her nearer and nearer to him, until, like ripened wheat awaiting the reaper's scythe, she sank into his arms, and burst into tears. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Hundreds of shots were fired by those who carried firearms, and before these murderous weapons, the poor bison sank like ripened grain before the reaper's blade. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z When the harvest is ripe, reapers enough are to be found--" "Satan, speak out! The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z The whirr of a reaping machine—for the early harvest has already begun—and the sound of reapers’ voices is borne up from the valley, with now and then the barking of a farmhouse dog. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z "Harvester" has sometimes been used as a broad term to cover both mowers and reapers. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Then the minister saw the reaper sheathing his sickle and hurrying away. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z As it was now harvest time, the new scene, and the fine weather delighted the children, who ran continually out to view the reapers. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z Even warfare, the deadliest task of all, slackens its energy, and the ghostly reaper leans on his scythe while wearied soldiers sleep. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z The tears streamed down her cheeks, as she saw the blue cornflowers fall before the reaper's scythe, when the grain was cut in harvest-time. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z At this Centennial Exhibition, besides twenty or more great manufacturing firms of the United States who exhibited reapers and mowers, Canada, far-away Australia, and Russia brought each a fine machine of this wonderful class. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z So the reapers of Birch Hill were quite satisfied that it was the Toili of this funeral they saw, and no other. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z But when the harvest comes we will set you to bind up the sheaves, or to glean beside the reapers. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Shepard mans a cannon turret, and the remainder of the fight requires the player to churn away at the reaper with this massive weapon to destroy it. A Sneak Peek At Mass Effect 3 2011-06-08T20:24:55Z The harvest "man" or "tree" which used to be made by English reapers at the end of the harvest, and presented to master and mistress, obviously belonged to the same family. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Up to this time, about eleven thousand patents have been granted in the United States, all presumably on separate improvements in mowers and reapers alone. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z His reapers often earned 10s. a day; enough to pay their year's rent in a week. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Our reapers have already the sickles in their hands. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The farmers had gathered the golden grain into their barns; the meads looked bare, and the partridges hid themselves in the stubble left by the reapers. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Take hold of your reeds, youths and maidens! and see Who the kissers and kiss'd of the reapers shall be. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z And the work was done much cheaper When they added on the reaper, Another machine to it they join, Mower, reaper, binder, all combine. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z When the enemy used gas shells to prevent the work, the soldier reapers went on with their task in gas masks. The King's Pilgrimage 2011-05-11T02:00:18.833Z You say true," replied the brigand; "but you must remember, we are many reapers. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z Take also this from the speech of Time to his reapers. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Later experiences succeed, the tune of the “reapers,” the “wine-song,” the praise of the “dead man.” Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Shepherds piped on the hill-sides, reapers sang in the fields, and laughter came with the red firelight out of every house in the evening. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z And beside all this horse power there were the steam plows, reapers and binders, threshers. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z "To my Lord Marquis of Carabas," replied the reapers; and the king was very well pleased with it, as well as the marquis, whom he congratulated thereupon. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z There were sickles and rakes and all the other instruments of the harvest scattered about in great confusion as if the reapers, at the end of the sultry day, had left them in this disorder. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z The harvest is fast ripening; and it behoves the reapers to get their sickles in readiness.” The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z When he strode through the golden stubble fields, the reapers would gather about him and with many a merry, kindly word encircle his limbs, in accordance with an ancient Bohemian custom, with wreaths of straw. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Another destiny awaits them; and the hand of the reaper rudely checks their purple inflorescence. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The yellow fields and the reapers have sunken into the earth--folk-song and the swing of the scythes have long sounded only like a vague murmur of waters to his distracted ear. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z She is turning away back to her ricks and her reapers when he recalls her. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The golden grain by reapers' care, Had strewn the rich fields everywhere; And filled the barns with Nature's store, For winter's use when summer's o'er. The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook 2011-03-13T03:00:22.773Z I knew that a band of foreign reapers had that morning passed through the village, on their way to a neighbouring department. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z A song floated up through the silent night: the reapers were working by moonlight. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z The monotonous pace of his horse, the melancholy reaper's song lulled him not to sleep, but to that half slumber which produces dreams. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z He wants me to see the reapers reaping by moonlight as we come home. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The reapers made merry so late that night, that they were quite willing to observe the ensuing Sabbath by resting most vigorously. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Some reapers returning home, heard my cries and brought him back to release me, that is all. The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet 2011-02-23T03:00:30.700Z Then the pitiless French guns begin to speak, and he sees his infantry mowed down like wheat before the reaper's sickle. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z An idea prevails in some parts that the mowers and reapers of American make are slighter and more fragile than those of English construction. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z And now, when August comes on thee, And 'mid the golden sea of corn The merry reapers thou mayst see, Wilt thou still think the earth forlorn? A Selection from the Poems of William Morris 2011-02-11T03:00:29.580Z He saw now but one savage, and that one soon disappeared through the lower window, into the room where his fellows were completing the slaughter of the unprepared reapers. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z There’s a sickle too near his own—in the hands of the reaper, Death.” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z But the reapers sing not in thy wheatfields: Tall sheaves wait ungarnered, Though swallows are shrilling in the skies. Eidola 2011-01-17T03:00:49.097Z The earliest development of the mower and reaper, as well as the clover cleaner, belongs to Mrs. A. H. Manning, of Plainfield, New Jersey. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Known as "Santa Muerte" in Spanish, the saint is often depicted as a skeletal "grim reaper" draped in white satin robes, beaded necklaces and carrying a scythe. Mexico arrests leader of "Saint Death" cult 2011-01-04T23:50:34Z Soon as thought of, he unsheathed his hunting-knife, and set to cutting the grass, as reaper with “hook and crook.” The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z I followed his gaze, and saw the reaper emerge from his concealment and run across a field to our left, resheathing his sickle as he hurried along. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Viruses are thus important, if tiny, avatars of the grim reaper. A Gazillion Tiny Avatars 2009-12-16T16:25:00Z The beast represents either the voracious pack of cyclists chasing down the Italian, or the grim reaper whose pursuit of Serse is just as ineluctable. William Fotheringham's top 10 cycling novels 2010-10-14T13:30:00Z Standard & Poor's is the grim reaper of the financial world. Pass notes No 2,772: Standard & Poor's 2010-05-02T20:05:00Z Others worship the Mexican cult of "Saint Death", a skeletal grim reaper draped in white and carrying a scythe. Mexican police ask spirits to guard them in drug war 2010-03-19T19:34:00Z I tried hard to convince myself that this was the case; but why had the reaper resheathed his murderous-looking sickle and fled? British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z True loss is the exclusive domain of surviving families, unalloyed by the outsiders’ relief that, this time, the reaper has passed them by. 2010-01-22T14:22:00Z "If they call thee reaper, whet thy scythe"; endeavour so far as may be to rise to the position, and show the title deserved. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources "One of his worst feats was last Saturday, when his chicanery drove away the Lithuanian reapers." The Undying Past I saw a poor-looking man, whose garments fluttered in tatters with the evening breeze, and who, by his appearance, seemed to be an Irish reaper, rise from among the tombs. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 With his eyes shut by a nervous effort, he turned himself round, and ran to his reapers. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 He possessed a happy turn, too, for settling the disputes which frequently arose among the young and fiery spirits composing the little army of reapers with whom he was engaged. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 After the field is cut out, and the pitcher once more circulated, the reapers, binders, and the women, stand round in a circle. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Go out, reapers, with your sickles, Gather home the harvest store! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The sun hung over the western hills; and the lark, after its summer silence, carolled over the heads of the last reapers of the season, to cheer their toil. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 He had counted them, and was returning to join the reapers, accompanied by Colin, his faithful dog, who, in devious excursions, circled round the large grey stones that lay scattered about. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 The flail will be silent in the barn, and the song of the reaper in the fields. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 The July heat was already ripening some of the corn, and before long the reapers would be at work. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life After the morning greetings with his family, on leisure days he had his horses exercised; in the harvest week he rode to the fields, and looked after the reapers and the inspector. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Patches of unripe grain the reaper leaves; And here and there ungathered are the sheaves. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches The reapers were just quitting the field, having accomplished the labours of the day; and, seeing him running towards them, crowded round him, eagerly inquiring the cause of his alarm. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 Hour by hour the virulence of the pestilence increases, and the strong men and weak women, youths and maidens, children and babes, go down before it like corn before the reaper. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance The harvest-field of suffering and privation was then, as ever, white; but the reapers were few, and of modern reaping instruments—hospitals and "homes"—there were none. The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril The reapers had gone away; their voices made faint, fitful echoes down the misty lane. A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story Thus the statute of labourers in 1350 fixed the wages of reapers during harvest at threepence a-day without diet, equal to five shillings at present; that of 23 H. VI., c. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 "To my Lord the Marquis of Carabas," repeated the reapers, and the King again congratulated the Marquis on his property. Tales of Passed Times He had already—though intellectual Dublin knew nothing of it—considerable popularity as a Gaelic poet, mowers and reapers singing his songs from Donegal to Kerry. The Trembling of the Veil The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory.—Scott. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency At this work, the laborers move like reapers, in even lines, at stated distances. To Cuba and Back “The foreign reapers,” it was said, “filled Rome’s belly and left Rome free for the stage and the circus.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" In the fields on either side the reapers had been busy, and tired-looking harvesters were hard at work binding the yellow corn and the scarlet poppies into sheaves. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII "He that puts his sickle into this field amongst the reapers," said Butler, with a thoughtful earnestness, "should not look back from his work." Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency No more for him shall cannon park Or tents gleam white upon the plain; And where his camp fires blazed of yore, Brown reapers laugh amid the grain! From Bull Run to Appomattox In the summer, the "reaper whose name is Death" reappeared amidst that united family, carrying off this time the able engineer, William Edgeworth, who also succumbed to the fatal family malady. Maria Edgeworth Yankees running an old McCormick reaper as mower with mule teams, doing big business. An Artilleryman's Diary I found myself among the trees What time the reapers ceased to reap; And in the berry blooms the bees Huddled wee heads and went to sleep, Rocked by the silence and the breeze. Shapes and Shadows If you have not sown, and see a reaper in the field, you will regret a lost opportunity. Arabian Wisdom A field of wheat," he murmured, "waiting for the reaper. The Garden of Eden In early Assyrian poetry, even, the refrain plays an important part; while an Egyptian folk-song, sung by the reapers, seems to have been little else than a refrain. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 There a crowd of neighbors gathered and watched with fascination as the reaper cut six acres of wheat during the day. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia Out in the fields, marching full in the moon's face, the reapers went slowly homewards. Carnival McCormick's reaper was patented in 1834, and gave an enormous impetus to the cultivation of western lands. The Greater Republic A History of the United States I see before me heads ripe for the sickle, and the reaper—I am he. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" She was not twenty yards away, the arms of Bertrand Fauchet were reaching out to take her, when, pouf! the sniper barked again and Nanette went down like a pale cornflower before the reaper. Leerie The name Robert McCormick means little or nothing to most of us, yet on his farm, Walnut Grove, near Lexington he made repeated attempts to invent a workable reaper. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia There no cheering sound of mirth was ever heard, the blithe whistle of the ploughman never swelled upon its echoes, nor often did the reaper's song disturb its gloomy silence. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 Forthright he drove into the crowd like a reaper into standing grain. Where the Pavement Ends Here was one wagon with threshers, another with reapers, and others with weavers, vine-dressers, shinglers, and woodcutters; every sort of heavy work had been turned for once into play. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine They were between the harvest fields and in the moonlight lay the grain left by the reapers. Fairfax and His Pride Poor Laura! we must get Dr. Bell to say that they shall be taken off on pain of death, and then, perhaps, grandmama would order some Irish reapers to cut them down with a sickle.” Holiday House A Series of Tales The huntsman and gamekeeper held higher rank than the ploughman and reaper; while all the prizes of ambition lay open to martial enterprise alone. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards And when the child was grown, it happened one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. The Bible Story Sometimes it is made an end, but no farmer could be satisfied with a reaper that did not cut the grain, however beautiful and well-made it might be or however smoothly it might run. The Making of a Country Parish The reaper is our best guarantee of prosperity. The Romance of the Reaper His words painted a clear picture of a superstitious concept of death, personifying it even as humans refer to the "grim reaper". The Test Colony I know the reaper will come, and the golden grain will bow before him, for this is Nature's law; but in its death lies the highest work of its circling life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Born at Papa, Hungary, November 3, 1846- "And she came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she chanced to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz." The Bible Story In cutting corn, the reaper must lay the swath behind him, so as to have nothing before him but the blades still standing. Black Forest Village Stories And it is the reaper, too, which has done most to make possible a nobler human race, by lessening the power of that ancient motive—the Search for Food. The Romance of the Reaper He would then despatch an officer, with several horse, to protect the reapers. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. The crops were being already gathered from such fields as lay facing the south; nearly all the reapers were women. Waldfried A Novel And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she chanced to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. The Bible Story One of these shows a ritual procession, apparently of reapers singing and dancing to the sound of a sistrum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Fifty-five years of American Independence went by before the first reaper clicked its way clumsily into fame, on a backwoods farm in Virginia. The Romance of the Reaper She puts the cradle down in the shade in view of the reapers, and performs her daily task in the broiling sun. Oriental Women When he showed his reaper at the London World's Fair in 1851, the newspapers made great fun of it. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read And she sat beside the reapers: and they passed her parched grain, and she ate and was satisfied. The Bible Story He was slowly and cautiously backing down from the high seat as I stopped beside the reaper. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls What a lesson it would be on the social value of the reaper! The Romance of the Reaper And the days are coming when all the earth shall wave as one vast harvest field, waiting for the reapers of God, who shall gather this blessed fruitage into the garner of the skies. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul The armies rushed on each other and hewed each other down, as reapers cut their way through a field of tall corn. Tales of Troy and Greece Then said Boaz to his servant that was set over the reapers, "What young woman is this?" The Bible Story Joe had housed the un-needed reaper in the shed and was examining the plow before he had been gone an hour. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls The reaper was America’s answer to Malthus—who scared England into abolishing the Corn Laws by his proclamation that “the ultimate check to population is the lack of food.” The Romance of the Reaper Before him, crowned with the rich harvest, stands Ceres with her train of reapers.” The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers She turned herself into the growing rye and made Raduz the reaper who was cutting the rye. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Then the reaper goes along, Singing forth a merry song, While I light the shaking leaves And the yellow harvest sheaves. The Bible Story Joe, who had already started to climb into the reaper seat, came back and looked in at the door, the better to look reproachfully at us. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls The field was hilly and the reaper worked badly. The Romance of the Reaper Now overripe his harvest stands In waiting for the reaper's hands; The piece of wheat we lately passed Is shelling out at every blast. The Brownies: Their Book “The only person I saw was a reaper in a field of rye.” Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Glean To follow after the reapers and pick up what they have left behind. The Bible Story Having amused themselves some time watching the reapers, the party drove home again. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 It was not at all handsome or well made or satisfactory; but it was a reaper that reaped. The Romance of the Reaper |
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