When the red flails of the battle-field's threshers Beat out the continent's wheat from its bran, While the wind scatters the chaffy seceshers, What will become of our sweet little man?
When there are three flails beating together, it makes lively music; and when there are four, they follow each other so fast that it is a continuous roll of sound, and it requires a very steady stroke not to hit or get hit by the others.
I came to the flying flails and the shooting of the drowning men, "that was sheer bloody murder!
For myself, and I saw the same in all my shipmates, the first sense of dismayed impotence in the face of those most damnable whirling flails very soon gave place to black fury.
Then they fall to work plying their flails with the utmost rapidity and vehemence, till they come to the last bundle.
Here the stranger woman, thus suddenly appearing, is taken to be the corn-spirit who has just been expelled by the flailsfrom the corn-stalks.
Women often are hired there for this work of threshing, and they are expected to swing flails with that lusty stroke all day long for one mark.
Some of the threshers rush at it and tear the best of it out; others lay on with their flails so recklessly that heads are sometimes broken.
Then they fall to work, plying their flails with the utmost rapidity and vehemence, till they come to the last bundle.
The mob on foot hurried with scythes and flails against the cavalry, in order to restrain the first impetus and lighten the attack for the Zaporojians.
The clatter of flails and the sound of scythes were heard on the armor; then cries and groans.
In this case the dried bushes with their leaves were being beaten with flails on a threshing floor.
It wur like a beatin' of ther earth with flails by threshers you couldn't see.
Vortigern and myself will not be the only ones to ply the flailson the threshing-floor of the barn.
Morvan, intently at work, and the noise of the flailsdeafening the sound of the steps and voices of the new arrivals, failed to hear them.
The king raised his hand as a signal, and the four men brought down their flails with moderate force upon Arthur's naked body.
The flails will do just as well and will make it very tender besides.
The lictors now had at times to use their flails against the crowd.
The praefect apparently was in no easy temper to-day, and when ill-humour seized him rods and flails were kept busy.
They had flails of harder make than that, harder than the iron nails used in the wars of old times, i.
Instead of which flails are still in use on small farms--which it is now the cry to multiply--for knocking out little quantities of grain for feeding purposes.
The making of flails was an important and useful work.
Why should not all Glamerton set out in a body with flails and pitchforks?
Westbury and the men put it into the barn, and later flailed it out on the barn floor, after the manner of Abraham and Boaz and Bildad the Shuhite, beating the flails in time and singing a song that Bildad himself composed.
Who would have a dusty, roaring thrashing-machine when one can listen to the beating flails and be back with Boaz and Bildad in the days when the world was new?
The noise of their shoes striking the metalled road sounded like flails on a threshing-floor; it was a rural sound, and not disturbing; it broke no rest.
Behind him the noise of the flailsin the barn followed him, fading in the distance and scattered by the wind.
The sound of flails could be heard in the neighbouring yard.
In turn, their blades beat like flails upon the doomed men.
Like flails the weapons of the grey warriors beat upon the round shields of the heathen.
The noise of pounding was heard above that circle of men, like the thumping of flails wielded by a multitude quickly on a threshing-space.
I think I'd prefer a debate with guns to one with axes and flails and anything that'd come handy.
They open wide their smoking mouths to low, But scarcely can their feeble sound be heard; Then turn and lick themselves, and step by step Move dull and heavy to their flails again.
The day now at its height, the pent-up kine Are driven from their flails to take the air.
The machine was nearing the tall monolith of granite that stood up amid the corn, and Nicky was driving carefully so as not to scrape the flails against its stone side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
