But far and wide went Sinfiotli through the earth, mowing the war swathe and wasting the land, and passing but little time in song and laughter in his father's hall.
Each prong in turn catches the edge of the swathe of grass and kicks it up and over, thus turning it and leaving it loose for the wind to blow through.
The swathes as laid by the mowing machine lent themselves to this treatment in the old days when the swathe was only some 3 to 4 ft.
This is a great point in favour of the use of the machine, because the swathe left by the scythe required to be "tedded" out, i.
After the grass has lain in the swathe a day or two till it is partly dried, it is necessary to turn it over to dry the other side.
Instead of the scythe, for instance, the mowing machine is employed for cutting the crop, and with a modern improved machine taking a swathe as wide as 5 or 6 ft.
She crossed to the westward side and stopped where a fallen hemlock had cut a swathe through the timber, creating an unobstructed view.
The relation of the border of this swathe to the world beyond is the relation of sea to land along an irregular and indented coast.
The territory within this swathe is inhabited by soldiers, ruled by soldiers, worked by soldiers, and organized for war.
About fifty feet from the German trenches was a swathe of barbed wire supported on a row of five stout, wooden posts.
The day on which I was to go across the great swathe of the front to the first-line trenches dawned cool and sunny.
Chapter III The Great Swathe of the Lines The time was coming when I was to see the mysterious region whence came the wounded of La Chapelle, and, a militaire myself, share the life of the French soldier.
Imagine, then, the French half of the swathe extending from the edge of the civilian world to the barbed-wire entanglements of No Man's Land.
Her naturally pale face, with its curved scarlet lips and slanting eyes, was set on a long neck, and round her small head a heavy swathe of black hair was held by huge scarlet pins.
Ready for bed, he slipped into her room and found her lying wide-eyed in a swathe of moonlight.
There comes the carriage, now raise her gently," and Will lifted the slender form as easily as he would have carried a swathe of corn.
Had it been Gethin who stretched himself and yawned as he attacked the first swathe of corn, Ebben Owens would have called him a "lazy lout," but as it was Will, he only jokingly rallied him upon his want of energy.
In the mental asylum that the swathe of socialist countries was, even language was pathologised.
A guerrilla type war of attrition is conceivable but with limited targets (autonomy for the Albanians within a well defined swathe of territory).
If it could be made visible, what a dark pall would swathe the world, an atmosphere of sorrow rolling ever with it through space.
We cloak our sins from ourselves with many wrappings, as they swathe a mummy in voluminous folds.
I have been on a ranch in the white, bare dryness of Siskiyou County, and reaped wheat with a swathe of 18 feet wide on a machine drawn by a procession of 26 mules.
I drove through a wheatfield at Harry's Uncle Christopher's on a machine, drawn by 26 mules, which cut a swathe 18 feet wide through the wheat and threw it out in bags to be taken home, as fast as the leisurely mules could walk.
He had heard of men who had burst when on camel journeys, and he knew that the Arabs swathe their bodies tightly in broad cloth bandages when they prepare for a long march.
His ague had caused him to swathe his throat and chin with a broad linen cravat, and he wore a loose damask powdering-gown secured by a cord round the waist.
The heart is like the face of an Eastern woman--warm and glowing, behind swathe on swathe of fabric.
Her head appeared again behind the swatheof gauze.
Another swathe of Marines is mowed down by chain-shot.
Swathe after swathe fell to the ground in a straight line behind them, and the binders bound them in bands of twisted straw.
See The low wide brow oppressed by sweeps of hair Darker and darker as they coil and swathe The crowned corpse-wanness whence the eyes burn black, Not asleep now!
Dost thou snow-swathe thee kinglier, Lebanon, Than in my dreams?
And all unseen by you a host of heaven-sent fatuities swathes him about, even, maybe, as they swathe you about.
They swathe him about so thickly that the pricks of fate scarce penetrate to him, or become but a pleasant titillation.
The swathe was undeniably there, and the insult and the agony and .
He left behind him, from north to south of a great State a swathe of misery, horror, and destruction fifty miles wide.
Each time that the soldiers attempted to approach, a volley issued from the brazier and cut a swathe through their ranks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swathe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
