The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Whales] Reference
"thrasher," about fifteen feet in length, blunt-nosed, strong of jaw, with cruel teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Spotted a brown thrasher, an unusual bird in this area. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday roadkill report] Reference
The duller, but louder, one on the left is a sage thrasher. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
(Answers: a. white crowned sparrow b. brown thrasher c. barred owl). From Wordnik.com. [Three Cigarette Stories.] Reference
The thrasher would go from one farm to another and thrash the wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, 1976 September 2. Interview H-66. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Flossie Moore Durham] Reference
One client "looked like his head had been through a thrasher," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Per Capita Savings: Home Barbering Grows in Recession, With Hairy Results] Reference
"He's a thrasher," I replied, jumping up, too, on the top of the nettings. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
Greater roadrunner, curve-billed thrasher, and Chihuahuan raven are also common. From Wordnik.com. [Chihuahuan Semidesert Province (Bailey)] Reference
The brown thrasher is a beautiful singer and eats many insects, mostly injurious. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
From a tree-top near the roadside a brown thrasher will sing a song of rejoicing. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
A mile from the asphalt, the silence is broken by the loud trills of a sage thrasher. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
It's not like the state bird, which is the thrasher, or the state food, which is grits. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2003] Reference
And I don't know whether he went around with a pea thrasher, but one of my uncles had it. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George R. Elmore, March 11, 1976. Interview H-0266. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Listen to that orange-winged thrasher rummage through leaves outside your bedroom window. From Wordnik.com. [Stop.] Reference
"That's a red bird, and if thee listens thee can hear a brown thrasher over there in the woods.". From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
On a hot day, a curve-billed thrasher sleeks its feathers which creates a thinner insulating layer. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptations of desert birds and mammals] Reference
It didn't have tines or a thrasher (and only went 5 mph), but it looked pretty awesome nonetheless. From Wordnik.com. [Dachshund Aficionado, january issue, p.37] Reference
The sage thrasher is a plain bird, but they have a melodious voice and a courtship song that literally will not quit. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
By far, the vast majority of the birds I see or hear are members of what I call the big five: horned lark sage thrasher. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
One man has thrashed 300 bushels of oats per day, and on windy days says the mill would run a thrasher of double this capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884] Reference
He was too young to work, but about the time the war was over, he was allowed to drive the horses that pulled the thrasher of wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
The case of a pet thrasher was almost as striking. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
Outside, in the smoky, warm dusk, a thrasher still sang. From Wordnik.com. [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference
And I was thinking - how important is the brown thrasher?. From Wordnik.com. [WTVC NewsChannel 9: Chattanooga News, Weather, Radar, Sports, Lottery : News] Reference
The flail of the thrasher does not fall more swiftly upon the corn. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Grinnell J (1917) The niche-relationships of the California thrasher. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
A steam thrasher didn't last long; a horse outlived three automobiles. From Wordnik.com. [One of Ours] Reference
Curve-billed and long-billed thrasher fed as well as a tufted titmouse. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference
The thrasher and I had the woods all to ourselves, except, of course, for. From Wordnik.com. [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference
The thrasher is silent in the berry pasture, and the bobolink in the meadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
See here, Claude, how soon do you figure you'll be able to let me have the thrasher?. From Wordnik.com. [One of Ours] Reference
If the wheat thrasher runs over his arm the Giants are not on the hook for the next several years. From Wordnik.com. [McCovey Chronicles] Reference
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