An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the reapers to dine upon.
They had left the wood behind them now, and were riding through cornfields, where reapers were busy cutting down the waving corn.
I will reward you,' said Geraint, for the lad was dismayed to find nothing left for the reapers to eat.
The "Dance of Reapers and Gleaners" must have sounded rather out of place in Worcester Cathedral, where Ruth was first produced.
The mist creeps up o'er the sleepy town, The white sails bend to the shuddering mere, And the reapers have reaped, and the night is here.
They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
When weary reapers quit the sultry field, And, crowned with corn, their thanks to Ceres yield.
And thereapers answered him, "The Lord bless thee.
Then the reapers gather home, from the gray and misty meres;-- O, happy are the apples when the south winds blow!
Time will tell the morning bell Its service-sound has chimed well; The aged crone keeps house alone, The reapers to the fields are gone.
When the skies are ripe and fading, like the colors of the leaves, And the reapers kiss and part, at the binding of the sheaves, In the happy harvest-fields as the sun sinks low.
Imperfect reapers appeared two years later and were made practicable by 1840, one of the triumphs of modern industry.
Then all the reapers took off their hats and cried thrice, "Waul!
For that or other reasons there is a strife between the reapers as to who shall get the Maiden, and they resort to various stratagems for the purpose of securing it.
M183 Bormus, a plaintive song sung by Mariandynian reapers in Bithynia.
The reapers dance round the last blades of corn, crying, "See the remains of the Horse.
M223 The key to the mysteries of Osiris furnished by the lamentations of the reapers for the annual death of the corn-spirit.
Great was the excitement among the reapers when the last patch of standing corn was reached.
One of the reapers consented to be blindfolded, and having been given a sickle in his hand and turned twice or thrice about by his fellows, he was bidden to go and cut the kirn.
In the parish of Minnigaff, when the Hare was cut, the unmarried reapers ran home with all speed, and the one who arrived first was the first to be married.
In the province of Osnabrueck, Hanover, it is called the Harvest-mother; it is made up in female form, and then the reapers dance about with it.
The reapers made their sickles of cardboard and covered them with gold or silver paper or painted them.
The action of the reapers and the words that were spoken gave evidence enough that grain was growing there.
The reapers come in with their sickles, followed by the gleaners.
All reapers look in that direction as they stand, resting their sickles on the ground.
In the second scene a big earthenware jar was needed from which the reapers could drink.
The reapers wore the same little brown slips which had been worn in every play that had been given.
Boaz: Go, bid thereapers not to harm her, and bid them let fall purposely some of the handfuls of grain for her.
The reapers sang it as they reaped and while Boaz was walking through his grain field.
I think I would rather use it than the tobacco juice which the mowers and reapers are now so fond of applying to the cuts they frequently get.
The reapersare sweltering in the wheat, the keeper suffocates in the wood, the carter walks in the shadow cast by his load of corn, the country-side stares all parched and cracked and gasps for a rainy breeze.
Reapers were at work in the wheat below, but already much of the corn had been carried, and the hum of a threshing engine came up from the ricks.
The reapers were in the corn--Dolly tying up; big Mat slashing at the yellow stalks.
He had now sold two, so that there were three Reapers clicking through the grain-fields in the Summer of 1840.
His factory was the largest and the busiest; and the Reapers that it produced were a most important factor in the growth of Chicago.
Four of these Reapers arrived too late for the harvest of 1844, and two of them were not paid for.
The Reapers were made and then, when the question of their transportation arose, Cyrus for the first time saw clearly that the Virginia farm was not the best site for a factory.
When he found that the freight charges on Reapers from Virginia to Cincinnati were too high, he arranged to have Reapers built in Cincinnati.
There were as many Reapers in the wheat-fields of 1861 as could do the work of a million slaves.
His Reapers were now clicking merrily in more than three thousand American wheat-fields.
A careful study of the pre-McCormick Reapers reveals one fault common to all,--they were made by theorists, to cut ideal grain in ideal fields.
From those ramparts in high summer--which is when the corn is ripe and the reapers in it--there could be seen a slope divided into squares of varied grain.
Beyond this square was a pale gold piece, and then one where the reapers had worked hard, and the shocks stood in diagonal rows; this was a bronze, or brown and bronze, and beside it was a green of clover.
And when he sent his reapers forth he said, We will not save the stalks of wheat that have the broken blades.
Then to the reapers I will say, 35 Go forth and gather up the tares and bind them up and burn them in the fire, and gather all the wheat into my barns.
And you shall go out in the fields and reap what other men have sown; but when the reckoning day shall come the sowers and the reapers all together will rejoice.
The harvest comes and, lo, thereapers bear the ripened sheaves into the garner of the Lord.
And Jesus said, The master of the harvest never sends his reapers forth and feeds them not.
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.
And she said, I pray you let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves; so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
So the reapers of Birch Hill were quite satisfied that it was the Toili of this funeral they saw, and no other.
The servant went home, and when he said there had been no burial that day at Llanbadarn it was concluded that they must have seen the Toili, with which conclusion the reapers also agreed on the morrow.
He even told the reapers to let some handfuls of corn fall in her way, on purpose, so that there might be plenty for her to glean.
The reapers treated her kindly when she timidly asked for permission to glean there, and when the master arrived to see how the harvest went, he too noticed her at once, for she was very beautiful.
The poor were always allowed to follow the reapers and glean the stray ears of corn that fell unnoticed.
In East Prussia, at the rye or wheat harvest, the reapers call out to the woman who binds the last sheaf, "You are getting the Old Grandmother.
Then all the reapers took off their hats and cried thrice, Waul!
At Aschbach, Bavaria, when the reaping is nearly finished, the reapers say, "Now we will drive out the Old Man.
In the province of Osnabrueck (Hanover) it is called the Harvest-mother; it is made up in female form, and then the reapers dance about with it.
It is not cut in the usual way, but all the reapers throw their sickles at it and try to bring it down.
In mowing down the last corner of a field French reapers sometimes call out, "We have the cat by the tail.
Further, at harvest-time, when the Egyptian reapershad cut the first stalks, they laid them down and beat their breasts, lamenting and calling upon Isis.
Before the reapers begin to cut the rice, the priest or sorcerer picks out a number of ears of rice, which are tied together, smeared with ointment, and adorned with flowers.
Hence we may suppose that the cry maa-ne-hra was chanted by the reapers over the cut corn as a dirge for the death of the corn-spirit (Isis or Osiris) and a prayer for its return.
It was only the deer that were feeding In a herd on the clover grass, They were startled, and fled to the thicket, As they saw the reapers pass.
It is only the reapers singing, As they carry home their sheaves, And the evening breeze has risen, And rustles the dying leaves.
This made the poor reapersthink he was a very honest, generous, and genteel master.
At first they persisted in keeping on with the work, but finally the farmer convinced them that they had been fooled, and the reapers went away sorely lamenting their misfortune.
Soon the farmer to whom the grain belonged saw the reapers in his field and came to ask what they were about.
Often three or fourreapers would each take a ridge and compete with one another as to who should finish first.
In Silesia, when the reapers gather round the last patch of standing corn to reap it they are said to be about "to catch the Wolf.
The Hag (wrach) was then hurriedly made and taken to a neighbouring farm, where the reapers were still busy at their work.
In some parts of the Highlands of Scotland the last handful of corn that is cut by the reapers on any particular farm is called the Maiden, or in Gaelic Maidhdeanbuain, literally, "the shorn Maiden.
One summer day, watching the reapers at work in his fields, he went to fetch them a drink of water and was never heard of more.
The reapers stand at a distance and throw their sickles at it; he who cuts it through "has the prize, with acclamations and good cheer.
Creeping stealthily up behind a fence he waited till the foreman of his neighbour's reapers was just opposite him and within easy reach.
In North Germany they say that "the Cock sits in the last sheaf"; and at cutting the last corn the reapers cry, "Now we will chase out the Cock.
In Berwickshire down to about the middle of the nineteenth century there was an eager competition among the reapers to cut the last bunch of standing corn.
It must be cut below the knot, and the reapers continue to throw their sickles at it, one after the other, until one of them succeeds in severing the stalks below the knot.
The harvest-supper in this neighbourhood was also called the Maiden; the reapers danced at it.
After it is cut the reapers cry thrice with a loud voice, "I have her!
Similar plaintive strains were chanted by corn-reapers in Phoenicia and other parts of Western Asia.
Down to recent times Devonshire reapers uttered cries of the same sort, and performed on the field a ceremony exactly analogous to that in which, if I am not mistaken, the rites of Osiris originated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reapers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
