On the appointed day the American appeared with his thresher, and the Filipinos were on hand with their stone table and a confident expert who was reputed the best rice-thresher in the district.
One way of threshing rice is to have a kind of stone table like an armchair, in which the seat is a bowl for the grain which drops down as the thresher strikes the laden stalks against the stone back.
The agent of the Kelly Road Roller Company had made an agreement with a number of Filipinos in the Maraquina Valley to take up a rice thresher and to thresh their crops for one-twelfth of the output.
The economy of the thresher over their own wasteful system made no impression against the fact that his commission would be a bulk sum which they were unwilling to see him gain.
Miss Thresher couldn’t find a suitable heading for her schedule, till Ursula suggested “Antizeptics.
If Miss Thresher hoped that her last remark would quelch Miss Quirker, she was mistaken nothing can suppress that lady, and nothing is sacred to her.
Miss Thresher and Miss Quirker had a small sub-committee on the subject of stockings—should they be worn all night in bed?
So we all lugged our plate-chests to the bedside; though Miss Thresher said she should put hers all into a laundry bag and hang it on the bedpost; it would be easier to carry that way.
Miss Thresher said obviously it was the only sensible course.
Miss Thresher besought them to stay a few minutes longer, merely to decide what to do when the Zeppelins actually arrived.
But Miss Threshercut short our bemoanings over the hardness of our lot, by saying in her head-mistress voice— “I’m afraid an excess of untutored imagination is one of the weaknesses of this age.
He said something, too, about the boys going out to the railroad to haul the new thresher in.
The thresher now expected was an unusually large one, and Gallwey had set out with most of the teams to assist the men in charge of it.
He toiled, and he watched the long spout of chaff and straw as it streamed from the thresher to lift, magically, a glistening, ever-growing stack.
Is that the new harvester-thresher father just bought?
That waving stretch of gold had fallen to the thresherand the grain had been hauled away.
The big thresherwas reduced to a blazing, smoking hulk in short order.
John Thresher and Mark Sweetwinter were overcome by my father's princely prodigality; their heads were turned, they appeared to have assumed that I could do no wrong.
Not long ago there was landed at one of our fishing ports a Thresher Shark of half a ton, its tail being over ten feet in length.
The Thresher adds to their panic by threshing the water with its terrible tail.
At Oberinntal in Tyrol the last thresher is called Goat.
The thresherof the last sheaf is said to "beat the Horse.
At Tettnang in Wuertemberg the thresher who gives the last stroke to the last bundle of corn before it is turned goes by the name of the He-goat, and it is said "he has driven the He-goat away.
When the threshing is finished, a puppet is made in the form of the animal, and this is carried by the thresher of the last sheaf to a neighbouring farm, where the threshing is still going on.
In front, cocks and hens disported themselves on a dunghill, whilst beyond, the steam corn thresher was at work, every hand being called into requisition.
We arrived in the midst of a busy time, a steam corn thresher plying in the vast farm-yard.
Then, suddenly, Dom Gillian bent down and grasped his victim by the ankles, swinging Oxenford into the air as easily as a thresher does his flail.
He could think only of a thresher with his flail as Ulick, bludgeoning right and left, won clear from the press of Stockader foes surrounding him and rejoined his own ranks.
Which reminds me---- We had been together about a week when the thresher came round.
Fact, I got my eyes cooked workin' at a thresher for them.
Why should you fear to meet the thresherof the wheat?
Without them no mortal to heaven can attain; For what can the sheaves on the barn floor avail Till the thresher shall beat out the chaff with his flail?
By the late seventies the steam thresher was fast supplanting horse-power and a great impetus was given wheat growing when the roller process for manufacturing flour was invented.
But the person in question is necessarily the reaper, binder, or thresher of the last corn.
In Carinthia, the thresher who gave the last stroke, and the person who untied the last sheaf on the threshing-floor, are bound hand and foot with straw bands, and crowns of straw are placed on their heads.
At Oberinntal, in the Tyrol, the last thresher is called Goat.
The reason for fixing on the reaper, binder, or thresher of the last corn as the representative of the corn-spirit may be this.
Down here, too, where I stand, each separate function of the thresher has its appointed slave.
With ceremonial as grave as that which is at work within thethresher itself, the tasks have been divided.
Carting the straw that streams from the thresher bows, are Michelmore and Neck--the little man who cannot read, but can milk and whistle the hearts out of his cows till they follow him like dogs.
Since the big fire of twenty-five years ago, and that which consumed the large paint shop occupied by the Minnesota Thresher Co.
He was immediately put to work for the Minnesota Thresher Co.
All three were apprehended shortly afterwards under the warehouse building of the Minnesota Thresher Co.
Florry Meldrum, "the thresher isn't alone; what are those long-nosed fishes swimming about under the whale?
I never saw them, however, attacking one in company with a thresher before: they must have formed an alliance for the express purpose, as they have really nothing in common.
As Beauchene continued talking too much, owning for instance that he did not know how far the thresher might be from completion, Mathieu noticed Constance listening anxiously.
Glass in hand, never losing a bite, he had already persuaded his customer, by the time the roast arrived, to order not only the new thresher but also a mowing machine.
The day was fine and dry, and the thresher was run at the top of its speed.
The grain had all been cut and stacked, and was waiting for the thresher to come on its rounds.
The name of Reed, the zealous thresher with the flail, serves to remind me of yet another Reed, a woman who died a few years ago aged ninety-four, and whose name should be cherished in one of the downland villages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thresher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fish; machinery; plow
