The men thresh the last sheaf till it is reduced to chopped straw.
When it was all cut and brought home, our next task was to thresh it.
This brings to my mind the fact that the means we now take to thresh our wheat were those used by the Jews in the days of old.
Then he perceives how good for the breed it must be that a man should thresh himself to pieces in naked competition with his neighbour while his wife struggles unceasingly over primitive savagery in the kitchen.
He'd leave his threshing in the barn, To thresh his foes he'd very soon larn; With sword in hand he would not parley, But thresh his foes instead of the barley.
He was determined that the thresh of feet should come finally to sing a great song, carrying the message of a powerful brotherhood into the hearts and brains of the marchers.
In the long narrow treeless park the music made by the steady never-ending thresh of feet arose to something vast and rhythmical.
I'm due in Twin Canyons City to-morrow morning, and we've got to threshthis thing out in a hurry.
Mr Thresh succeeded in obtaining an alkaloid from the capsicum, but this was entirely wanting in acridity and pungency.
There is little chance for originality; they not only thresh old straw, but the thresh straw that has been threshed a million times--straw in which there has not been a grain of wheat for hundreds of years.
Now she was almost on me, the heart-like pulse of her engines and the thresh of her great sternwheel deadening all the other sounds which that vast river surface caught up and bandied back and forth.
The Lord God of Power give thee wisdom, courage, manhood, and boldness, to thresh down all deceit.
Reported that a thresh delouser had been started for Beresnik.
Hans must thresh by himself all that was lying upon the other six floors.
He was to thresh that day, said the squire; the other twelve men were already busy at it.
Father will thresh me if I run away, and Master Brunswood will thresh me if I don't.
In December when we thresh the rice the bongas carry off half of it; but Ramai could see them and would drive them away and so was able to save his rice.
If you pay him by the day's wages, he will thresh no more than he pleases; though to be sure, the negligence of a thresher is more easily detected than that of most labourers, because he must always make a sound while he works.
They thresh out the grain by means of four or five asses or camels tied abreast, and driven round and round over this primitive floor.
The people are preparing to thresh their corn, and I was interested in observing all the details of their process.
