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 boy whose business it was to drive the team of the reaping machine hadn’t come, and Davie was only too proud and happy to be just in his place.

From Eunice by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

The first reaping machine using the sickle and guard device was known as the "dropper."

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph

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

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