“Irish barley straw, it was claimed, was too thick to be cut using a scythe.”

“Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract.”

“Prospero may think that he has banished winter from his masque, but by introducing sicklemen into it, he imports figures related to the scytheman Time or Death.”

“They bend over in the small barley fields, terraced out of the mountainsides, cutting the sheaves with sickle moon scythes.”

“They use no machinery, only human labor and simple tools such as axes, knives, hoes, scythes and sickles.”

“We also took turns at turning the crank of the grindstone when scythes needed to be sharpened.”