Sentence examples for scythe with from inspiring English sources
It's not a bill-hook or a sickle; it's a proper scythe, with a handle taller than he is and a huge, curved, black blade.
It swept the thoroughbred pastures like a scythe, with a rate of abortion and dead foals 700percentt higher than normal.
Turner said: "It was quite odd to walk into a newsagent and see myself holding a scythe with a peculiar smile on my face.
Last year, Turner's appearance as brooding Ross Poldark wielding a scythe with his top off caused such a stir it was voted top TV moment of 2015 by Radio Times readers and it even sparked a renewed interest in scything.
In one, a farmworker sharpens his cradle scythe, with its fingerlike projections, to gather straw in East Meadow, circa 1905; in another, men sit in the linotype room of The Long Island City Star, around 1908; yet another photograph captures the bustle of Brooklyn's Wallabout Market, once a major destination for farmers, including those from Long Island, and the grocers who bought from them.
Inside is a dining room furnished in what you might call rec-room gothic, with a low ceiling, a worn red carpet, framed beer posters and hanging light fixtures that appear to have been assembled from many barn sales: a bugle with a band saw, a scythe with antlers and a violin.
We've ridden camels in the Saharan desert and swung scythes with farmers in Romania.
Easy on the aggression, heavy on the class, the Addictive Behaviour producer balances cutting bass scythes with gently rolling percussive patterns and the result is a tune that is forebodingly heavy, but with just enough levity to blast in the daytime.
And in Arnie Levin's "Working Holiday" cartoon he's in a golf cart, his scythe in with the clubs.
When death comes to dinner in "Dividing the Estate," the deeply funny play by Horton Foote at 59E59 Theaters, nobody treats the old scythe swinger with much respect.
A human scythe bedecked with yards of brocade, elaborate turbans and unlikely jewellery, she made an extraordinary sight: "a high altar on the move", according to Elizabeth Bowen.
