reaping machine
Example Sentences
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It is a story about a woman of the farmlands who, when her lover is killed in a reaping machine, marries an unattractive neighbor to father her child.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old man came through the underbrush like a reaping machine, and of course the police took after them.
From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert
At the opening of this century it was thought that a successful reaping machine had been invented, and a reward had been voted by Parliament to its author.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
These tough stems blunt the sickles of the reapers and the knives of the reaping machine.
From Wildflowers of the Farm by Cooke, Arthur Owens
From a distant cornfield came the busy rattle of a reaping machine.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
