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
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
It is impossible to use a plow, a spade, or a reaping machine without injuring it and, in the end, wearing it out.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates
A few words as to the reaping machine, which contributed more than any other modern implement to the development of agriculture in the past century, may not be out of place.
From History of Farming in Ontario by James, C. C. (Charles Canniff)
