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Sentence Examples But the small party does not manage to remain separate, for it meets a masqued procession featuring Winged Time, his scythe and hourglass. Instead, save the scythe for the kitschy styling, indolent performances, and hokey gags. Climbing on the roof, Gawain suddenly heard a violent noise, clattering off the cliff like a grindstone on a scythe. It almost looks as though the slicer is using a scythe rather than a club sometimes. Many of them were armed with nothing more than scythe blades mounted on the end of long poles. However, here in North Yorkshire do we apply the Luddite mentality and return to the pitchfork and scythe? Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook. I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe. Both of them were on the edge of the reaper's scythe that morning, and surely their luck could not take them too far. Sharpening a European scythe is a combination of hammering and honing with a whetstone. Armed with machetes and machineguns, the raiders scythe through the rows of huts, torching their thatched roofs. The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom. The dim contour betrayed a scythe hanging on two pegs near the ceiling, its handle parallel to the ground. He seems none the worse for wear, despite momentarily leaning on his scythe for support. Although Mark Dornford-May's production is played in 18th century costume, it takes a scythe to the text and cuts many of the more pointed lines. He also often bears a scythe or sickle in his arms, reflecting that Time's eroding force cuts down everything. Before the scythe could get halfway through its arc, the void-sword was flashing through the air, severing the long haft of the farm tool. Further up on the gable's crest are Vices and Death with a scythe at the very top. But he was also skilled at the bow, the short ax, the dirk, the scythe, the dagger, even the great battle axe. The angel of death still appears at the entryway, waves his scythe, and off we go to who knows where. Show More Sentences Their day will be spent in the family field cutting millet close to the ground with a scythe. Crucially, no-one else had died in Emmerdale over Christmas so it was odds-on the Grim Reaper was sharpening his scythe for someone come the turn of New Year. Stunning new discoveries from the burial site of Southend's Saxon king, including an ornate drinking horn, scythe and iron stand, have been revealed. He hopes to let the plants go to seed, scythe the plants and save the seed. The scythe is used to dig in the canal, the spade and basket to clear away the debris. In these damp sloping meadows, haymaking was done by scythe, rake and pitchfork. The scythe blade has to be gauzy and as smooth as a razor blade, so that the scythe cuts well. The former has the classically draped general rising from his sarcophagus, while around him the pyramid of Eternity crumbles and the figure of Time breaks his scythe. Her knives were twice a long as a scythe set straight upon the handle. That means that four fifths of the world's farmers, or around one billion peasants, work only with manual tools: machete, spade, hoe, scythe? The planned single currency, the euro, should scythe through Europe's tangle of D-mark, French franc and lira interest-rate futures contracts. This caricature shows the grim reaper with his scythe aboard a chariot bearing a coffin. Those taking part in the work arrive at the sector equipped with a small scythe, a spade and a basket. The unit is used as a scythe, cutting from the right to the left in a broad sweeping action from side to side. A young lawyer was badly slashed with a scythe during a taxation of costs by a self-represented litigant. The family had never owned one, but when the boy was supposed to be working, he would be battling imaginary monsters and fiends with his father's scythe. Sharing the work between 150,000 internet-user volunteers, via the WCG, will scythe this time to around a year! Since then residents have reported seeing children running around with a billhook a small scythe and using saws to cut down trees at the nearby Seven Fields Nature Reserve. No one is sure how they were used, but Harelson believed that they were attached in twos or threes to a long stick and used for cutting plants like a scythe. But you may be a little alarmed by the photographs because surely, you're thinking, the car in question is an instrument of Satan, the Reaper's scythe. Show More Sentences He lived in a big suburban mansion in Weybridge and he was sharp as a scythe. Clutched loosely with one bird-like hand, was a massive scythe. And now one resident in the estate has had to resort to cutting the two-foot high grass with a scythe just to let his son and the other youngsters in the estate play. He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe. Lawn mowers became a more efficient alternative to the scythe and domesticated grazing animals. Kamaitachi is a phenomenon wherein one who is idle is suddenly injured as if his or her skin were cut by a scythe. Much hay was originally cut by scythe by teams of workers, dried in the field and gathered loose on wagons. A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk. The treaty provided that those families which undertook farming would receive two hoes, a spade and a scythe with a plow for every ten families and five harrows for every twenty families. These motions swing a scythe through all of the negotiations, all of the promises, all of the time and the energy that went into the development of what became section 7.1 of the committee report. In some truth will shine forth in splendor, while others will offer only imposture, yet the scythe of justice shall continue cutting until all of the seed that remains on earth is selected. My mind drifts to scenes of blind man's bluff in the buff and painful encounters with Old Father Time's scythe. In 1926, some 19,000 homeless children were expelled from state-funded children's homes and placed in extended peasant households to plow with a centuries-old wooden plow, and to reap with a sickle and scythe. They also cheered through a radical budget plan drawn up by Paul Ryan of Wisconsin that would scythe down entitlements and, in particular, will make the well-loved Medicare plan for the elderly much less generous. And that's a fine doom-trope, a typical metal pensée: live hard and prevail over the weak-willed, for the horned one doth await with sharpened fang and scythe. Scott lay dead in his garage, stabbed repeatedly by his own scythe. Christ, the principle warrior, has raised already his sword, it is necessary that like a scythe it uproot evil and by its flashing bring light to the universe. Do not forget that the financial director is always right around the corner, holding his scythe in readiness, even when your customers are satisfied. On March 6th he hinted that he would scythe labour laws in the way Mr Hilton had demanded since last year. The difference between Mr Hilton and the likes of Sir Jeremy and Mr Osborne lies in style rather than vision. Migration brought more settlers to take up land grants and the broad prairies of grassland under the work of plough horses became a sea of golden wheat to be harvested by the scythe and its successors. Show More Sentences When they go bad they scythe away wealth and strangle economies. That is when my scythe shall come and with wisdom reap according to my will, for my scythe is of life, of love, and of true justice. But as for you, people: Pray and keep vigil. Haggle, harangue and be sassy and you'll walk away with a deal that's good enough to protect you from the scythe of Grim Depreciator. Examples from Classical Literature The latter had an hourglass on his head, and in his hand a scythe, with which he aimed a blow at Mercury's feet. The fever spared her, but she wilted like the grass beneath the scythe of the mower. Hugh wielded the scythe the whole of the harvest, and Margaret gathered to him. The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries. Where the swathe of the scythe is wide men's souls expand in heart qualities. Keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake. Joe took his snath from the place where it had lain since they left Missouri and fitted a scythe to it. It is just to your duty, as the mower's whetting to his scythe, to make it for to do his work. His scythe is one that don't need any grindstun, and his swath is one that must be cut. There is another ahead of him there, with the head of a scythe inside his smock. The American pioneers had only a sickle or a scythe with which to cut their grain. Close by them a man was preparing to scythe out one of the dell-holes. Whole streets of houses were mown down by the flaming scythe. The thrall who had spoken whetted his scythe with it and began to mow. Grass on a clod of earth Scorned even by the passing reaper's scythe. They have always a crotchet going, till the old man with the scythe reaps and garners them away for troublesome old boys as they are. Mark, upon this, took up a scythe and began to cut the wheat. Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle. The sweep of death's scythe had included everything, great and small, within its swath. He mows down a proletarian and a Marshall Field with the same scythe. Show More Sentences It was that moment in summer when the sound of the scythe being whetted makes us cast more lingering looks at the flower-sprinkled tresses of the meadows. The field had been newly mown, and there were yet the marks of the scythe on the yellow-green ground, and the track of wheels where the hay had been carried. And I'm so nigh it that the Aud Man is already whettin' his scythe. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with scythe What is the past tense of scythe? What is the plural of scythe? What is the adjective for scythe? What is the noun for scythe? Translations for scythe Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words scyphozoans scyphozoan Scyphozoa scyphistoma scylla and charybdis Scylla scythed scythes Scythia Scythian Scythians scything 6-letter Words Starting With s sc scy scyt scyth