The remains of cereals found in the lake-settlements of Switzerland, added to the iron instruments intended to secure the products of the cultivation of the ground, such as the scythes and sickles which we have previously depicted (figs.
Together with the knives we must also class the sickles or reaping hooks.
With the pruning-bills or sickles we must class the regular scythes (fig.
One of these mounds has furnished various objects of bronze intermingled with fragments of charcoal, especially a bracelet and some sickles characterised by a projection or set-off at the spring of the blade.
The largest of these sickles does not exceed 6 inches in length.
The ewes are barren; the cows drop their untimely calves, though crooked sickles and lucky stones have been hung in the shippons.
Lucky-stones had lost their virtues; horse-shoes nailed behind the doors were of little use; and sickles hung across the beams had no effect in averting the malevolence of the evil-doer.
The earliest sickles were flints set in an animal's jaw-bone, or in a curved piece of wood similar to the Egyptian sickle shown in Figs.
Men with axes and sickles cleared a circle around the rock-pile, at some distance from it, and then set fire to the wood within.
Ascræus lives while grapes with new wine swell, Or men with crookèd sickles corn down fell.
Mr. Fish, therefore, instructed General Sickles to remain at his post until the 26th, and if no accommodation were reached by that time he could demand his passports.
On December 20, General Sickles again tendered his resignation and it was accepted.
Ten days later, General Sickles requested that the telegram tendering his resignation and the reply be published.
In case of a refusal of satisfactory reparation within twelve days, General Sickles was instructed by his government, at the expiration of that period, to close the legation and leave Madrid.
Meanwhile General Sickles offered his resignation by cable in consequence of certain reports that his conduct had been disapproved.
General Sickles had on January 30 telegraphed to Washington for instructions in case the republicans should succeed in their efforts.
As soon as news of the capture reached Madrid, General Sickles called upon President Castelar and represented to him the difficulties that might arise in case the ship had been taken on the high seas bearing United States colors.
General Sickles urged upon the new republican government the abolition of slavery and the concession of self-government to Cuba.
By the time this dispatch reached Madrid General Sickles had already asked for his passports, but had not received the reply of the Spanish government.
Good feeling between the two countries was further promoted by the proclamation of the Spanish republic in 1873 and by the prompt action of General Sickles in extending to it the recognition of the United States.
General Sickles replied that he could not accept such a proposal, but that he would inform his government of it and take the responsibility of deferring his departure.
In accordance with instructions from Mr. Fish, General Sickles on November 14 protested by note against the executions as brutal and barbarous and stated that ample reparation would be demanded.
The representations made at Washington by the Spanish minister were of a much more satisfactory character than those made to General Sickles at Madrid.
Sickles was allowed to go out with a strong division, but instead of reaching Jackson he was confronted by a portion of Lee's force, thrown forward to meet him, and the battle was so fierce that Sickles was compelled to send for help.
Sickles himself fell, a leg shattered, and walked on one leg for more than fifty years afterwards.
In the myth the throwing of the weapons and of the mistletoe at Balder and the blindness of Hother who slew him remind us of the custom of the Irish reapers who kill the corn-spirit in the last sheaf by throwing their sickles blindfold at it.
There is a small worme called Volvox, which eateth the vine branches when they are young, but if the vine-sickles be annointed with Beare's blood, that worme will never hurt them.
Men and women, children and grandmothers, were toiling day and night with scythes and sickles to harvest it by hand, but could not gather it all, and tons were left to rot under the "hoofs of cattle.
The reapers made theirsickles of cardboard and covered them with gold or silver paper or painted them.
All reapers look in that direction as they stand, resting their sickles on the ground.
Sickles were of two kinds--those made of metal and those made of wood.
It gave her happiness to reap with it, but the others were just as content to use the sickles from cardboard.
Some of the boys may be interested in cutting sickles directly out of wood.
General Sickles has just called my attention to the fact that the book is to be published.
That is to say, Longstreet had twice as far to march on an air-line to strike Sickles "up the Emmitsburg road" as Sykes had to reinforce the threatened point.
As a Northern veteran once remarked to me, 'General Sickles can well afford to leave a leg on that field.
Reinforcements were quickly poured in, and there was a hot conflict, Sickles being seriously wounded and his troops almost cut to pieces.
Sickles had taken the responsibility of joining us without orders, knowing that we were hard pressed.
Sickles sent Ward's brigade to take the place of the 3d Maryland, but it did not reach the position assigned it in time, the enemy being already in possession.
When Sickles lost his leg, Birney assumed command of the corps, and ordered Humphreys to move his left wing back to form a new oblique line to the ridge, in connection with Birney's division.
Sickles ordered Pleasonton to take command of the artillery, and the latter took charge of twenty-two guns, consisting of his own and the Third Corps batteries.
Sickles requested permission to attack McLaws, but Hooker again became irresolute; so this large Union force was detained at the Furnace without a definite object, and the works it had occupied were vacant.
When the latter came up, Slocum andSickles were on the ground, and the opportunity for a successful attack had passed.
When the enemy were observed, Sickles went out with Clark's battery and an infantry support to shell their train.
Sickles was ordered to fall back to it at dawn of day, Birney to lead the way, and Whipple (Graham's brigade) to bring up the rear.
The commander of the Eleventh Corps, however, far from making any new works, did not man those he had, but left his own lines and went with Barlow's brigade to see what Sickles was doing.
The blacksmiths were set to work making sickles for cutting grass and reaping grain; shovels, plows and other implements for farmers.
In some places Miss Barton's agents had the pleasure of seeing vegetable gardens coming forward from seed furnished by the Red Cross, and village farmers reaping the grain with sickles which the Red Cross had given.
Here, too, the women were in the fields cutting the grass and grain with the sickles which, the blacksmith had made from the iron and steel we had furnished.
Yet in that month Mr. Fish had instructed Mr. Sickles to break off relations with the Spanish government unless they could reform their Cuban administration.
So come, Trygaeus, take as many sickles and casks as you will for nothing.
Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece; to-day I am being paid fifty drachmae for every one.
Dan Sickles could pull Buchanan’s nose with impunity, and Judge Russell could pinch Bennett’s big proboscis, and he would not dare breathe the faintest murmur.
Sickles were elected to the Judiciary and Congress, and will be again, as long as James Buchanan, James Gordon Bennett, Judge Russell, Daniel E.
At this time General Sickles opportunely arrived, and instructed me to order them outside the camp, which I did, amidst the loud cheers of our soldiers.
And, furthermore, Sickles was empowered, if necessary, to suggest that the United States would guarantee the payment by Cuba of the indemnity.
Sickles again took up the matter with the Spanish government, but they stood firm, and since there seemed no hope of an agreement on any terms which would be acceptable to the revolutionists, the matter was finally dropped.
When Sickles submitted the result of his efforts to the government of his own country, that government, well knowing that the Cubans would never consent to the first two stipulations laid down by Spain, promptly rejected them.
Sickles received the most careful instructions to proceed in a conciliatory fashion, and in no manner to imply any recognition by the United States of the belligerency of Cuba.
It is not cut in the usual way, but all the reapers throw their sickles at it and try to bring it down.
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.
All in turn threw their sicklesat it, and the one who succeeded in cutting it received a jug of home-brewed ale.
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.
When it was cut the reapers gathered together and threw their sickles in the air.
Probably all these doleful ditties were lamentations for the corn-god killed by the sickles of the reapers.
They gathered round it at a little distance and threw their sickles in turn at it, and the man who succeeded in cutting it through gave it to the girl he preferred.
It was plaited together, and the reapers, standing ten or twenty paces off, threw their sickles at it.
On that he took to his heels and made off as fast as he could run, and he was a lucky man if he escaped without being caught or cut by the flying sickles which the infuriated reapers hurled after him.
Then shouldering their sickles they leisurely skirted the hill in front of them, and after a little search came upon the pretty sheet of water now called Murdoch's Pond.
Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece, to-day I am being paid fifty drachmas for every one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sickles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
