Where are the mowers, who, as the tiny swell Of our boat passing heaved the river-grass, Stood with suspended scytheto see us pass?
A sturdy fellow with both hands gripping a scythe can do an amazing amount of damage at close quarters, as more than one Shawnee war-party has learned.
More than one settler depended entirely upon ax or scythe for protection.
Silent are the loom and distaff, In the cabin and the cottage, And the songs of scythe and sickle Gathering in the golden harvests.
There are harvests Yet ungarnered, waiting for scythe and sickle.
To please you, Elsie, I will lay keen Dynadel away, And in its place will swing the scythe and mow your father's hay.
But thy Pennacook valley was fairer than these, And greener its grasses and taller its trees, Ere the sound of an axe in the forest had rung, Or the mower his scythe in the meadows had swung.
The scythe struck a stone and flew into a thousand bits; the giant fell to his knees, so violent was the force of his impulsion; the girth which fastened Courte-Joie to his shoulders broke, and the cripple rolled into the midst of the fray.
We took our places under a five o'clock morning sky, and the larks cried down to us as we stood knee-deep in the fragrant dew-steeped grass, each man with his gleaming scythe poised ready for its sweeping swing.
Away down the meadow I hear the early scythe song, and the warm air is fragrant with the fallen grass.
From the beginning of history the crooked sickle and the straighter scythe had been almost the only tools used for cutting grass and grain.
To swing a scythe from early morning until late in the day severely taxes the strength.
Here for the first time he saw a scythe and learned its use.
For a while George watched Tom's steady swing of the scytheas he slowly cut a swath the length of the field.
The bucket of the clepsydra had discharged, and with a jerk Saturn raised his scythe and pointed to the hour of midnight.
With a jerk Saturn raised his scythe and indicated the hour ten.
At each movement of the wheel a connection with it gave motion to the hand of a statuette of Saturn, who with his scythe indicated a number on an arc of metal.
So, many householders used to set old scythe blades across the new smoke holes, to keep out the thieves, or to slice them up, if they persisted.
Then the widow told her tale of woe--the story of the loss of her husband, and how a red robber, in spite of the scytheblades set in the chimney, had come down and taken away both her money and her cow.
Upon reaching the wharf, I noticed a scythe and three spades, all apparently new, lying in the bottom of the boat in which we were to embark.
You talk of the scythe of time and the tooth of time; I tell you time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm, we who smite like the scythe.
Thenceforth he turns the axe toward the trees and the scythe toward the standing grain.
Swiftly youth goes on toward maturity, age toward old age, and the scythe awaits all.
At that moment, Time, who had shut the doors, saw our friends and rushed at them angrily, shaking his scythe at them.
Brandishing his scythe in one hand and holding out his cloak with the other, he barred the way to the rash Children who tried to slip by him.
With a roar of rage, he darted his scythe at Tyltyl, who cried out.
I detested so hideous a Shape, and turned my Eyes upon Saturn, who was stealing away behind him with a Scythe in one Hand, and an Hour-glass in t'other unobserved.
The Nightingale gives over her Love-labourd Song, as Milton phrases it, the Blossoms are fallen, and the Beds of Flowers swept away by the Scythe of the Mower.
The small devil hid himself in the grass, and as the point of the scythe came down he buried it in the earth and made it almost impossible for Ivan to move the implement.
Still, the scythe would not work, which made him so angry that he worked with all his might, and one blow more powerful than the others cut off a portion of the small devil's tail, who had hidden himself there.
And William seized the scythe and an icy darkness descended upon him, and he felt dizzy and faint; yet he persisted and wrestled with the skeleton, although the darkness seemed to be overwhelming him.
And here he heard a voice saying: "He who would cull the white poppy must look into the eyes of its guardian and take the scythe from the bony hands.
A young man then takes a scythe and cuts off the cock's head at a single stroke.
One of the thralls spoke to the Wanderer: "Tell them in the house of Baugi up yonder that I can mow no more until a whetstone to sharpen my scythe is sent to me.
The grass went down before his scythe as if the wind had cut it.
The thrall who had spoken whetted his scythe with it and began to mow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scythe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crescent; hatchet; jackknife; meniscus; pick; semicircle; tool
