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
By that time the three had been to the barber's and their heads looked like a wheat field, a field of golden grain after the reaping machine had been hauled across.
From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Sinclair, Upton
Obed Hussey and C. H. McCormick, were striving to produce a successful reaping machine for cutting grain and grass, as were many others, before and since.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
The up-train was late—they had been too long loading up the fish at Dungeness, or there was a reaping machine being brought from Lydd.
From Joanna Godden by Kaye-Smith, Sheila
Indeed the most unqualified approval was given by the gentlemen present, to the applicability of the reaping machine to the purposes for which it is designed.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
