That they might have fair fame among motorists the commercial club of Reaper had set at the edge of town a sign "Welcome to Reaper, a Live Town--Speed Limit 8 Miles perhr.
By Allah, the Reaper of lives hath reaped them and made void the lands of them.
Death followed hard upon the trail of them all, and laid them low sparing neither great nor small, male nor female; and the Reaper of Mankind cut them off, yea, by Him who maketh night to return upon day!
Until the reaper was actually upon him, he clung to his stalk with tail and eighteen toes.
The mother-mouse dashed to her nest as she saw it falling, and a wheel of the reaper passed over her.
The oldestreaper had to dance, first with this doll, and then with the farmer's wife.
At the dance in the evening the Ceres is placed in the middle of the floor, and the reaper who reaped fastest dances round it with the prettiest girl for his partner.
At Gommern, near Magdeburg, the reaper who cuts the last ears of corn is often wrapt up in corn-stalks so completely that it is hard to see whether there is a man in the bundle or not.
Thus wrapt up he is taken by another stalwart reaper on his back, and carried round the field amid the joyous cries of the harvesters.
Then a young reaper whets his scythe, and, with a strong sweep, cuts down the handful.
The following are specimens of the speeches made by the reaper on these occasions.
Low the flowing crops bent, With their fulness content; And many a sickle was sent Into the rustling fields, While the gay reaper wields The bounty which God yields In his goodness to man.
Full soon will come the Reaper Black, Cut thorns and flowers mark his track Across Life's meadow blithe.
And at the end he said, 'It is then that the ploughman overtakes the reaper, for ploughman and reaper are one.
It is then that the ploughman overtakes the reaper, for ploughman and reaper are one.
Joe had housed the un-needed reaper in the shed and was examining the plow before he had been gone an hour.
I reckons dere can't nobody help me much w'en I'se done got a broken reaper to wuck with.
Joe, who had already started to climb into the reaper seat, came back and looked in at the door, the better to look reproachfully at us.
Joe had resigned the reaper seat to him and had ridden home himself standing on one of the cross-bars.
Stibble, stubble; stubble-rig, the reaperin harvest who takes the lead.
Mrs. Burns is getting stout again, and laid as lustily about her to-day at breakfast, as a reaper from the corn-ridge.
The Reaper Whose Name Is Death "Matthew--Matthew--what is the matter?
Heat has gone down into the cracks of the ground; the bar of the stile is so dry and powdery in the crevices that if a reaper chanced to drop a match on it there would seem risk of fire.
The reaper had risen early to his labour, but the birds had preceded him hours.
Roger the reaper smoked out his tobacco; the children played round and watched for scraps of food; the women complained of the heat; the men said nothing.
While that is so, it is useless to recommend the weary reaper to read.
Cut with reaper or cradle, and bind: all grain so cut is more easily handled, thrashed, and fed.
Mow no grain that is not so lodged down that a cradle or reaper can not be used.
In these fields, instead of working a reaper with a sickle eight feet long, they work a header with a twelve-foot sickle.
One of the four beasts hitched to the reaper is a broncho colt who came dancing to the field this afternoon, refusing to keep his head in line with the rest of the steeds, and, as a consequence, pulling the whole reaper.
The reaper cut splendidly the rest of this afternoon.
As the square in mid-field grows smaller the reaper has to turn oftener, and turning uses up much more time than at first appears.
There is a noble dignity and ease in the motion of a new reaper on a level field.
Since he became obstreperous, they thought hitching him to the reaper would cure him, leaving a draught-horse in the barn to make place for the unruly one.
I have made an acceptable hand, keeping up with the reaper by myself, and I feel something especial awaits me.
Halters and a barrel of water and a heap of alfalfa for the mules, binder-twine and oil for the reaper and water-jugs for us are loaded into the spring wagon.
But the reaper breaks down so often I do not know whether I can keep up with it without help when it begins going full-speed.
To-day was the only time the reaper did not break down every half hour for repairs.
Then a fellow in citified clothes came to me and asked: "Can you follow a reaper and shock?
The four mules are soon hitched to the reaper and proudly driven into the wheat by the son of the old Mennonite.
This reaper was bought only two days ago and he beams with pride upon it.
He is following the hurryingreaper in a sort of ceremonial fashion, delighted to see the wheat go down so fast.
Isaac Watts The Diverting History of John Gilpin William Cowper Bannockburn Robert Burns My Heart's in the Highlands Robert Burns The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth Sonnet William Wordsworth "Soldier, Rest!
Every reaper and mower, every agricultural implement, has elevated the work of the farmer, and his vocation grows grander with every invention.
And he had noticed under the outer cart-shed a brand-new reaper and binder, and other farm implements and machines of the best quality.
At Grueneberg in Silesia the reaper who cuts the last corn is called the Tom-cat.
In Puy-de-Dome when a binder cannot keep up with the reaper whom he or she follows, they say "He or she is giving birth to the Calf.
If a reaperis wounded at his work, they make the cat lick the wound.
As the corn is being cut the animal flees before the reapers, and if a reaper is taken ill on the field, he is supposed to have stumbled unwittingly on the corn-spirit, who has thus punished the profane intruder.
If a reaper overtakes the man in front he reaps past him, bending round so as to leave the slower reaper in a patch by himself.
At sunset the whole household takes a hot bath and then goes to the rice-field, where the chosen reaper cuts an armful of rice with a new sickle, and distributes two or more stalks to all present.
Similarly we saw that elsewhere, when a reaper is wounded at reaping, a cat, as the representative of the corn-spirit, is made to lick the wound.
So near Chambery when a reaper wounds himself with his sickle, it is said that he has "the wound of the Ox.
When the last stroke is given at threshing they say that "the Ox is killed;" and immediately thereupon a real ox is slaughtered by the reaper who cut the last corn.
Thus they call out to the reaper of the last corn, "You will catch the Wolf.
But if a reaper gets pains in his back, the farmer gives him the goat-skin to wear.
When the reaping approaches an end, each reaper hastens to finish his piece first; he who is the last to finish gets the Oats-goat.
In some parts of East Prussia, when a few ears of corn have been left standing by inadvertence on the last swath, the foremost reaper seizes them and cries, "Bull!
Some crops are still cut by scythes; a reaper and binder is less common than the simple reaper which cuts the corn and leaves it to be gathered and tied by a harvest hand.
Europe, while busily speeding to her engagements, disdainfully casts her glance from her carriage window at the reaper reaping his harvest in the field, and in her intoxication of speed cannot but think him as slow and ever receding backwards.
But the speed comes to its end, the engagement loses its meaning and the hungry heart clamours for food, till at last she comes to the lowly reaper reaping his harvest in the sun.
Lincoln’s admiration for, 62; his handling of the McCormick Reaper suit, 62.
The same spirit of candid self-appraisal was strikingly manifested during the McCormick reaper suit, in which Lincoln, with other lawyers, had been retained for the defense.
Frank rode the lead horse, four stalwart hands and myself took "stations" behind the reaper and the battle was on!
As I look back over my life on that Iowa farm the song of the reaper fills large place in my mind.
Too old to bind grain in the harvest field, he was occasionally intrusted with the task of driving the reaper or the mower--and generally forgot to oil the bearings.
Our reaper in 1874 was a new model of the McCormick self-rake,--the Marsh Harvester was not yet in general use.
