Backyard not yet quite ready for the first scything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in southern Ohio.] Reference

It was an awkward piece of scything, but I hit an artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

Tatters of cloud sent shadows scything across the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

Wearing tee shirt and shorts, the Greek ideal for scything.    From Wordnik.com.  [If the Olympics are "soft porn" and you are "concentrating" on the female gymnasts....] Reference

A good many had fallen to the scything timbers of the stable door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Valiant]

But I suspected that scything through legions was not their purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Is The Darkness]

"Listen!" shouted Mikardo across the cutting, scything, wounding words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold the Stars]

The damp wind scything through her clothes felt like it cut to the bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of Creation]

Men were scything the grass below him, and he paused to consider their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

"Lovely night for scything, Lady, " he said softly to the sharp-edged crescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripping Time]

In agricultural societies the annual cycles are counted from sowing to scything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Henes: Thanksgiving: Celebrating The Harvest] Reference

The scything sound of the runners 'scimitars ended in five pairs of meaty thuds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

But how does this relate to the disease now scything through the world's bananas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times] Reference

On the outer side of the road, Kharl could also see three men scything late wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wellspring of Chaos]

Chunks of debris went scything across the plaza to impact the surrounding buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

Thirty more men fell dead, and ten wounded under the scything fragments from the mines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clear and Present Danger]

Just launched himself forward with his right arm scything around in a giant roundhouse strike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

A scything Adu run raised the noise level a few decibels, but the finishing touch wasn't there.    From Wordnik.com.  [American men's soccer team settles for 2-2 draw with Dutch] Reference

Unarmed though he was, humans ducked away from scything claws, lurched from buffeting wingbones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Their Return]

The others followed, ponderous legs thundering against the ground, tusks scything at the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elephant Song]

Perhaps it would be working in service to the landed gentry, hand-milking a cow or hand-scything wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is this the Most Stupid Headline Ever?] Reference

At the other end of the line, the side of Kadere's wagon exploded, splinters scything down Aiel and townsfolk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

The energy clung to his sword and each swing of his weapon cast a scything whip of power ahead to clear his path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey]

He whips the rod round in a scything arc, and I wait and wonder, because Malcolm has never had a fight in his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

One scything claw knocked Tameera's Optek spinning away and made a sound like a knife across porcelain as it scraped stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

In Mr. Carter's day, bankruptcies were scything through the railroad sector, hurtling toward a rendezvous with nationalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Obama Had Carter's Courage . . .] Reference

In that regard, I am very interested to see the scything motion that Tim Armstrong has been using since assuming control of AOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jarvis Coffin: AOL Returns to the Green, Green Grass of Home] Reference

It started with missing governors "hiking the Appalachian Trail" and ended with the grim reaper scything down half of Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satirists on Strike!] Reference

The windows were shuttered and a dozen men, their heads protected from the rain by hoods of sacking, were scything the big lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Prey]

European governments are scything spending and raising taxes to close dangerous budget gaps, only its not going down particularly well.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Euroland's Eyes Are on Germany and Merkel's Wobbly Coalition] Reference

At this very moment Sir Nicholas could well be scything a serrated knife through a juicy porterhouse steak in a fancy London restaurant.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Nancy saw only a blur of movement as the hammer, already in his hand, came scything from behind his back in an upward curve toward her jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

Speaking of you, Death, in your own language "kufa", Professor Otty Nxumalo is unrelenting of your scything action when he poetically said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eulogy for Colonel Sibusiso "Sihle" Mbongwa by Comrade Jeff Radebe, Minister of Transport, Member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC] Reference