| They fell trees with handsaws, heat their homes with wood, cut the hay with scythes and milk the cows, weed the fields and harvest the crops by hand. |
| All the mowers would throw their scythes at the final stook so that no one person would be responsible for the corn spirit's death. |
| Just now I was pursued in the village of anis by doughty labourers armed with flails and scythes and pitchforks. |
| The whole idea that the entire country took to arms with pitchforks and scythes is also a fallacy. |
| The youngsters who had tangoed best and had shone in cabarets were swept away as grass by scythes. |
| While an undoubtedly pejorative term, it is of use in understanding the pervasive freshness that scythes through the nose on first sniff and continues into the palate. |
