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 Earl of Zetland again referred to the reaping machine.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
The up-train was late—they had been too long loading up the fish at Dungeness, or there was a reaping machine being brought from Lydd.
From Joanna Godden by Kaye-Smith, Sheila
Indeed the most unqualified approval was given by the gentlemen present, to the applicability of the reaping machine to the purposes for which it is designed.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
It was at the time Mr. Hussey was residing in Baltimore that he turned his attention to the idea of a reaping machine and spent his leisure hours in working out his model.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
