The downy swathes combine, Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff Curdles about her!
And it was fine, full of a promise of glorious days, a deep blue sky with dazzling piles of white cloud here and there, as though celestial haymakers had been piling the swathes of last night's clouds into cocks for a coming cartage.
And all unseen by you a host of heaven-sent fatuities swathes him about, even, maybe, as they swathe you about.
One sees the mighty pillars lying as they sank, like swathes beneath the mower's scythe.
The mowing grass while standing does not appear to attract other birds much; but immediately the scythe has passed over they flock to the swathes from the hedges, and come, too, to the hay itself when quite dry.
When the mowers have laid the tall grass in swathes snakes are often found on them or under them by the haymakers, whose prongs or forks throw the grass about to expose a large surface to the sun.
Having stooped and looked in, St. John saw (seeth) the linen swathes in which the body of our Saviour had been bound (xix.
They bound the body in swathes of linen cloth covered with layers of the aromatic mixture.
XV Iram, from Pyropus sweeping, As a mower swathes the rye, Caught his love, in terror sleeping, And her light form swings on high.
At first we worked stiffly, unreadily, but soon the monotonous motion possessed us with its insistent rhythm, and the grass bowed to each sibilant swish and fell in sweet-smelling swathes at our feet.
I was the last to leave, and as I lingered at the gate drinking in the scent of the field and the cool of the coming rain, the first drops fell on my upturned face and kissed the poor dry swathes at my feet, and I was glad.
As soon as the sun was well up, and our tasks about the house over, our part of this new play in the hayfield began, and with a fork or long stick we followed up the swathes and spread them out nicely, so that the grass would dry.
It is customary with this to go up the field throwing two swathes to one side, and then back down on the adjacent swathes, so that thus four are thrown into one central windrow.
When in use it is taken to the farther end of a row of cocks, a windrow, or even to a row of untouched swathes on the ground, and walked forward.
As the swathes lie in long parallel rows, it is a great convenience in working for two to be taken in width at a time, so that the horse can walk in the space between.
The width should be suited to that of the swathesas left by the mower, and as the latter is now made to cut 5 and 6 ft.
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.
It takes two swathes at a time, and it will be seen that the working part consists of a wheel or circle of prongs or tines, which revolves across the line of the swathe.
Her feet and hands were fastened with soft swathes of silk, while about her mouth and chin the Indian shawl proved an efficient gag.
When the trees are young whole swathes may be found uprooted and prostrate, which mark the track of the elephants as they "trampled their path through wood and brake.
As the grayswathes continued to smother the light out of the moon the heat became more oppressive.
The night was sultry; the moon lay languid under swathes of gray mist.
You see Gregory has been steadily at work this morning, father,' pointing to the long swathes of cut grass under the trees; 'the churchyard will be a credit to us yet.
In Arcus when the grass is high And all the swathes in order lie, And there's the bailiff standing by A-gathering of the tithe.
Men were mowing, and women were turning the fallen swathes in the waterside meadows, and upon all the slopes above were patches of yellow corn ready for the sickle.
A goodly sight was the long line of mowers as their scythes swept round and the flowery swathes fell on the broad mead in the tender sunshine, while the edges of the belt of trees were still softened by the morning mist.
So they turned their faces to Sigmund, and waded the swathesof the sword.
And so when the last is departed, and she deems they will come not aback, Fares Hiordis forth from the thicket to the field of the fateful wrack, And half-dead was her heart for sorrow as she waded the swathes of the sword.
Most of the chiefs perished without the pretence of trial, and the same fate befel thousands of National Guards, who were mown down in swathes and cast into trenches.
Waving their flags and intoning their prayers, the Dervishes charged on in utter scorn of death; but when their ranks came within range of the musketry fire, they went down like swathes of grass under the scythe.
The other swathes her in bonds, drags her to the non- limy central floor and, in the calmest fashion, eats her.
The Epeira interrupts her work, hurries to the giddy-pate, swathes him and takes her fill of him where he lies.
Lavishing her silky spray, she swathes them and then sucks the body at her ease.
The hideous sky droops darkly down In brooding swathes of misty gloom, And seems to wrap the fated town In shadows of remorseless doom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swathes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
