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
I did not see a mowing or a reaping machine in the Tyrol, either on this or the other side of the mountains.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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
The Earl of Zetland again referred to the reaping machine.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
I had never seen or formed an idea of a reaping machine until I went to Hutchinson's.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
