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
In the distance the regular click of a reaping machine falls on the breeze.
From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Piffard, Harold
From a distant cornfield came the busy rattle of a reaping machine.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
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 came rapid development of the reaping machine.
From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph
