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
The whole crop was cut by your reaping machine in eight days, using one team, a boy to drive and a man to manage the machine.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
Then there was Cyrus McCormick, who invented the reaping machine.
From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
The boy whose business it was to drive the team of the reaping machine hadn’t come, and Davie was only too proud and happy to be just in his place.
From Eunice by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
From a distant cornfield came the busy rattle of a reaping machine.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
