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
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
How many men has the self-binding reaping machine thrown for a time out of work?
From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)
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
Then came rapid development of the reaping machine.
From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph
