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 Hulbert Footner
The Earl of Zetland again referred to the reaping machine.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Follett Lamberton Greeno
These tough stems blunt the sickles of the reapers and the knives of the reaping machine.
From Wildflowers of the Farm by Arthur Owens Cooke
The whole crop was cut by your reaping machine in eight days, using one team, a boy to drive and a man to manage the machine.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Follett Lamberton Greeno
