In summer he used a scythe to keep the ditches and banks clear of brambles and grass. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
scythe grass or grain. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Death's scythe is made use of to gather them to their people. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
The good senator knows once he steps down the black shrouded being with the scythe is waiting for him. From Wordnik.com. [Byrd returns to the Senate] Reference
Outwitting the man with the scythe is a universal activity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
The owner of the scythe was the first to try his fortune and test his father's advice. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
The scythe was their farming-implement to cut such coarse hay as grew in the bottoms near rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852] Reference
The silent whisper of the scythe was the only sound he heard, gasping like the laboring death-rattle of a dying person. From Wordnik.com. [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]
A guadaña is the kind of scythe the robed "Death" carries around when he comes to take you away. From Wordnik.com. [Machetes y guaparras] Reference
Keri did such a super job on them with the little throwing star and the fimo scythe which isn't in the photo, but you can imagine!. From Wordnik.com. [While I was on Stay-cation - And She Knits Too!] Reference
The scythe is laying on the hay. From Wordnik.com. [SIESTA] Reference
Till chuck! went the scythe on a piece of old rail. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
As he let the scythe drop and he picked up the chunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
The great leveller has swung a long scythe over France. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There is only one winner here, and it carries a scythe. From Wordnik.com. [Shan Wells: The Real Winner In Iraq] Reference
Down went the British platoons as before the scythe of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
I just stared at his cardboard scythe, so he went into the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [All-Night Cartoon Party] Reference
Nearly anyone can grasp what a man might do with a scythe or a plow. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
Emilia spun the scythe in front of her, until her left hand caught it. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.24: Desperation] Reference
I get to use a scythe, two sticks -- one big stick called a kun -- and a sword. From Wordnik.com. ['The Matrix' Reloads: Back In Black] Reference
It was too withering, the men falling before it as the grass before the scythe. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
With a broken scythe in the race he over-matched those with fine mowing-machines. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Yes, he, too, shall drop his scythe, and his lax hand shall destroy no more for ever. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
From the distant hamlet in the valley clinked only the sharp tones of the whetting scythe. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Beside her stood a massive slave with a scar on his cheek like the cut of a thrashing scythe. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Still, given the tall grass in his yard, the goat company returned with a scythe to neaten up. From Wordnik.com. [Free-Range Landscaping] Reference
Ill lodged, ill fed, and scantily clothed, disease cut them down like grass before the scythe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Cronus is often represented as an old man leaning on a scythe, with an hour-glass in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Canister from Morton's guns laid a scythe along the Union advance, cutting men to ground level. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Barley is cut, either with scythe or machine, when it is quite ripe with the ears bending over. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
"He'll not trouble them again, I reckon," the man said, with a grin, as he picked up his scythe. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
His only weapon was a sword made from a scythe which he had stolen from a neighboring plantation. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States] Reference
A crooked-handled scythe used for cutting grain before the cradle, and thereafter for cutting hay. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
She watched the man dive down towards her and formed a blade of light turning the staff into a scythe. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi Zero - v.2: Megumi's Fable, the Advance] Reference
Some of the stalks are so thick that we managed to break the scythe and then the strimmer's nylon on it. From Wordnik.com. [Tobias Jones: a retreat of one's own] Reference
When she got there and saw the cow hanging in such an ugly place, she ran up and cut the rope in two with her scythe. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
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