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
And now the platform is empty, and the only sound of life is the whirr of the reaping machine and the voices from the harvest field.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
He and his father would lock themselves up in the shop and work for hours on a reaping machine.
From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton
Through it was introduced the first reaping machine into Ireland.
From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Russell, Ruth
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)
