Abe used to go into the fields, with the men whose favor he sought, and bend his long back over a scythe or a cradle and race them playfully across the field of grain cutting a wider swath than any other and always holding the lead.
Every man was out of breath at the end of his swath and needed a few minutes for recuperation.
After a while he noticed two men working downward from the portal along the swath of the avalanche.
At the end of the swathunder an immense heap of rubbish we found Jim and his wheel, he blinking like a toad under a harrow.
When we turned the corner hoping to see Jim far away across the Skunkamunk Valley, we discovered a swath in the roadside down through the underbrush, briers and brambles nearly to the foot of the hill.
If they had the enthusiasm and the fighting qualities of the Irish, they would take blackthorn clubs and mow a swath through France wide enough for an army to march over.
From the railroad station at one end of the town to the green fields beyond the hospital on the Chantilly road at the other end, a black swath of burned and ruined buildings is the memento.
The new frontier ran along the summits of the Alps and took a wide swath down the Adriatic coast.
All day long he plunged ahead, but she kept at his heels, and when the last swath was cut and the last sheaf bound she threw the rake over her shoulder and remarked: "It has been a het day, Mr Jamieson.
Those who followed the cradles were apt to make big sheaves where the crop was heavy and little sheaves where it was light, and the swathwould have to be raked for a considerable distance to get a proper bundle.
He started down the field at an easy swing and when he reached the end of the swath and prepared to whet the scythe of his cradle he glanced around to see how his partner was progressing.
By some boy intuition of my own I knew that he cut no wide swath in the lazy field of town life.
Once started, the lightening of its midway advanced till at last, on November 13, it stood out an unmistakable double, the two lines standing where the edges of the swath had previously been.
At this opposition, too, the canal passed through its period of minimum visibility and was then seen, whenever it could be caught, as a confused swath of full width.
Hay that has been cured in the cock is much less liable to heat when stored so as to produce mould, than hay cured in the swath or winrow.
Exposure to two or three showers of rain falling at intervals while partially cured in the swath or winrow will greatly injure clover hay.
They will also lose much if cured in the swath, without being frequently stirred with the tedder; that is, it will take serious injury if cured in the swath as it fell from the mower.
After the mown clover has been exposed in the swath to the sunlight beyond a certain time, it turns brown, and if exposed thus long enough the aroma will be lost.
His scythe is one that don't need any grindstun, and his swath is one that must be cut.
Our labors," he says, "went on lightly; we turned the swath to the wind.
Turn it in the swath the forenoon of the next day; and in the afternoon put it up in small cocks.
It is plain that Goldsmith never saved much hay; turning a swath to the wind may be a good way of making it, but it is a slow way of gathering it.
To the ones in the swath of the raid, like the one who sits on the pin, it is anything but a laughing matter.
But the swath of the raid is so narrow, London so broad; the killed so few, Londoners so many.
Slides in new places mean--what you saw where that swathwas cut through the lower end of the little village down the valley, and problems like this!
At any rate, to say that there was not a very contagious brand of terror "in the air" in the immediate vicinity of the swath of last night's raid would be to say something that was not true of my own neighbourhood.
This meant that the swath of the bombs would be cut at least a hundred yards to the north-east, and, impelled by the fascination of the unfolding spectacle, I remained at my window.
As theswath was largely cut through the tenement and slum districts of the East End, the property damage was not great, but, for the same reason, the loss of life must have been considerable.
From Williamsburg town he nobly dared To race with the flood, and take the road In front of the terrible swath it mowed.
Kalus, knowing her pain, cut the best swath he could, and Kamela followed behind him.
He cut a swath straight towards it, risking much that the creature in the tree was his own, self-named Avatar, proud hunter of the frozen woodlands.
The Marsh Harvester cuts a five-foot swath the King cuts six feet.
Where once the wild prairie grass waved, comes the cheery clatter of the harvester, and swath after swath of the golden grain falls down before it.
With a caution akin to awe she approached the windfall where a cyclone years before had levelled a wide swath through the heavy growth.
Which teacher was it that cut a wide swath into my son’s hair?
Gigílis sa kusug nga pambut ang dágat, The pump boat cut a straight swathinto the sea.
Sángab nga ági sa ílang panggúna, The swath that was left when they cut grass.
Allison laid over in a vertical bank, and, as he swung back his guns, cut a swath across the enemy craft.
Stan's Brownings drilled a swath of lead across the field as he swept over.
Tom felt inevitable exhaustion coming on, though he cut a much narrower swath than his companion.
Tom had stretched himself in sheer exhaustion on a swath of hay.
Yet swath after swath marks the sweep of his arms, and his poor dull mind is filled with the thought of the day of liberation that is drawing nigh.
The Sumter and the Florida cut a wide swath under instructions which "left much to discretion and more to the torch.
Between its blockaded and garrisoned coast on one side and its sixty-mile swath of devastation through the heart of Georgia on the other it might as well have been a shipless island.
He cut a swath of devastation sixty miles wide all the way to Savannah.
Down from the ledge on which the castle stood to a point apparently within a few yards of the clay ramp there had been cut a winding swath through the forest, along which four horses abreast could be ridden, or as many men marched.
There must have been more than a regiment armed with axes, cutting a swath through the forest to take our secret road in flank!
We could not possibly have lost the way, because our crawling column had left a swath behind it of trampled grass and trodden crossing-places where the track wound and rewound in a game of hide-and-seek with tinkling streams.
I have done the one big thing I wanted to do, I have cut a swath in the field.
He was lying in his own blood, in the swathwhich the battle had cut.
