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

Mr Bell of Toronto exhibited his excellent plough, straw-cutter, and reaping machine.

From History of Farming in Ontario by James, C. C. (Charles Canniff)

And now the platform is empty, and the only sound of life is the whirr of the reaping machine and the voices from the harvest field.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

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

The old man came through the underbrush like a reaping machine, and of course the police took after them.

From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert