High and low they sought till they had found three scythes, orscythes and sickles.
But it would be perfectly possible for those big creatures to swingscythes and get this grass mown in short order--it would be rather a lark for them.
On shore some labourers are cutting grass with long scythes which have only one handle rather low down in their long straight stem, and women are piling up what has been cut for hay.
The group of peasants had increased largely, some thirty or forty men armed with pikes, bills, and scythes being gathered in a body, while many more could be seen across the country hurrying over the white plain towards the spot.
He caught up from the ground some pikes andscythes which the peasants had dropped in their flight, and aided the men to make their way to the nearest cottage.
Malcolm had his sword and pistols, two of the men had pikes, the other two scythes fastened to long handles.
They said they had lived for fifteen years in British territory, they wanted land to be given them and implements to cultivate the soil, and seed to sow, and scythes and sickles to reap their grain, and some cattle.
Four hoes, two spades, two scythes and a whetstone for each family.
You asked first for four hoes, two spades, two scythes and whetstone, two axes, two hay forks and two reaping hooks for every family.
When he has done, they all whet their scythes in measured time very loudly, after which they put on their caps.
The men stick the poles of their scythes in the ground, as they do in whetting them; then they take off their caps and hang them on the scythes, while their leader stands forward and makes a speech.
That in these customs the whetting of the scythes is really meant as a preliminary to mowing appears from the following variation of the preceding customs.
Near Ratzeburg, when the master or other person of mark enters the field or passes by it, all the harvesters stop work and march towards him in a body, the men with theirscythes in front.
Then the process of whetting the scythes is repeated.
At length one of the men with scythes went up to her.
About fifty men with scythes stood before the house, near them a dozen more with guns; the doors were still open, and people were still going in to get arms.
The men with scythes were standing about in disorder, while the bearer of the scarf, himself unarmed, was busy trying to rally them.
I will go with you, and so will the forester and a few more, perhaps; but an unarmed band against scythes and a dozen guns is out of the question.
The Life Guards attacked them on the right, the Blues on the left; but the Somersetshire clowns, with their scythes and the butt ends of their muskets, faced the royal horse like old soldiers.
He had instantly marched to Frome, had routed a mob of rustics who, with scythes and pitchforks, attempted to oppose him, had entered the town and had disarmed the inhabitants.
The tithing men of the country round Taunton and Bridgewater received orders to search everywhere for scythes and to bring all that could be found to the camp.
The scythes were oddly heavy and hot to the touch, and the stones seemed hardly to make a sound in the heavy noon air.
We rolled back our sleeves, stood our scythes on end and gave them a final lively stoning.
As it would take an hour to walk three miles and a half with the scythes on their backs, it was agreed that they should carry my scythe, and that I should bring the bottles and bag upon my poney.
The clatter of flails and the sound of scythes were heard on the armor; then cries and groans.
The scythes and pikes quivered in strong hands, and gave out an ominous clatter.
All living men, seizing scythes and pikes, joined the Zaporojians; endless crowds hastened to the camp from every side.
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.
He ran away, for he heard that they were making scythes and pikes for us.
The Cossacks sprang forward too with scythes and flails on the assailants.
We had these scythes and pikes made for us, so as not to be the last; but we don't know whether to begin now or to wait for a letter from Hmelnitski.
The peasants in all the country about killed the fugitives withscythes and clubs.
But what, in the name of all that is mysterious, is your 'Massa Will' going to do withscythes and spades?
I follow virtues also; they differ not by the thickness of a nail, they are both scythes for the reaping angel of Death.
As there was a scarcity of swords and pikes, smiths were employed to make weapons by fastening scythes on poles.
Not only the muskets and pikes but the scythes and pitchforks would have been too few for the hundreds of thousands who, forgetting all distinction of sect or faction, would have risen up like one man to defend the English soil.
Even where I stood, far up, I could hear the sharp swish of their scythes as they cut through the bottom grass.
The mowers were winding their scythes in long heavy sweeps through the meadow in the bottomlands, and rows of mown hay lay behind them.
Monmouth had seven thousand men to oppose them, but his forces were mostly undisciplined and badly armed, some having only scythes fastened on poles.
The scythes in the meadow swished, the larks called down that it was a fine evening, some fowls came and pecked about on the sunny steps of the temple, some red sails passed between the trunks of the willows down near the water.
Not a soul was to be seen except the souls with scythes in the meadow.
Curtius said, not that the scythes revolved with the wheels, but haerebant.
On the other hand, the scythes used by other nations may well have been on the wheels.
This was covered in except in front; like the essedum, it had no seat for the driver, and in times of war it seems to have had scythes attached to the axle in the British fashion.
In this way," he says, "the scytheshad a firm hold, and could inflict more damage than if they had been applied to the wheels or felloes and revolved with them.
And suddenly the scythes that were ringing far and wide among the grain, and the rakes that were being drawn over the meadow, became quiet and still; such were the orders of the Judge, on whose farm work closed with the day.
The fight at Ochakov was bloody, at Zurich they crushed our infantry, at Austerlitz I lost my whole company; but before that, when I was a sergeant, your Kosciuszko cut up my platoon withscythes at Raclawice.
The scythes were long since sharpened and ready, and the five men set to work on the morning of the third day.
The scytheshad done their work and the forks came into play.
I noticed that they used a different snath for their scythes here from that common in England.
American manure-forks and hay-forks, axes and augurs you will now find exposed for sale in nearly every considerable town, but one of our beautifully mounted scythes would be a great novelty here.
Elbow room was given to those in advance, and soon shots were whistling through the doorway, while men armed with sabres, with pitchforks, with scythes and every class of weapon dashed up the steps and hurled themselves at the opening.
But a dozen and more of the latter had contrived to descend the second ladder, and at once there began a desperate hand-to-hand contest, pikes and scythes being opposed to sabres.
There is a sort of music in the "swish" and a rhythm in the swing of the scythes in concert.
But if the scythes cut well and swing merrily, it is due to the boy who turned the grindstone.
Turning grindstones to grind scythes is one of those heroic but unobtrusive occupations for which one gets no credit.
One likes to hear the whetting of the scythes on a fresh morning and the response of the noisy bobolink, who always sits upon the fence and superintends the cutting of the dew-laden grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scythes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
