He cut bands all right for a few minutes, and then, Mrs. Harling, he waved his hand to me and jumped head-first right into the threshingmachine after the wheat.
Antonia worked on through harvest and threshing, though she was too modest to go out threshingfor the neighbours, like when she was young and free.
Mrs. Harling, did you ever hear about what happened up in the Norwegian settlement last summer, when I wasthreshing there?
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
What is the method used in saving or threshing the seed from the Giant Russian sunflower?
Lambert of Modesto after threshing about 30 lots in one year tells us that some growers had left second, some third and some fourth cuttings for seed.
Do you remember that I cried to you, in the threshing yard, that something was wanting in our affection.
One night, in the threshing yard, under the great starry sky, do you remember?
She had declared it to herself one night, in the threshing yard; life was horrible, how could one live peaceful and happy?
Suddenly she remembered the night which they had spent in the threshing yard.
It was the first time that he had gone out since his illness, and she led him to the threshing yard, along the paths in the pine wood, and back again to the terrace crossed by the two bars of shadows thrown by the secular cypresses.
Threshing with an iron flail, threshing with an iron flail" (gruffly).
Also invented was a threshingmachine with a set of sticks to replace hand threshing with flails.
Now she was preparing the midday meal for the threshing gang which was at work in the fields.
The threshing gang was returning from the fields, and the purple haze of sundown was rising above the eastern horizon; Prudence did not move.
On entering the shed he observed a threshing outfit that had been stored for the winter.
In the first place I was in the barber shop being shaved, when a telephone message came that a man had been terribly injured by falling into a threshing machine out at the Shepperd farm.
They wanted to know what we expected them to be threshing in the merry month of May!
The hiss and threshing of many wings came unceasingly.
The girl had spoken, and the air was black with their threshing wings, while still Chet waited with outstretched hand.
Two hours later MacLure came out from Annie's room and laid hold of Tammas, a heap of speechless misery by the kitchen fire, and carried him off to the barn, and spread some corn on the threshing floor and thrust a flail into his hands.
Before the invention of the threshing machine this was the universal method of threshing, although it was also customary to tramp it out with horses, which were driven over a thick layer of the straw hour after hour.
It was intended primarily for driving threshing machines and sawmills and was simply a portable engine and boiler mounted on wheels with a water tank and coal cart trailing behind.
They were sometimes used as tractors to pull heavy loads and, if the owner also happened to be in the threshing-machine business, he hitched his threshing machine and other paraphernalia to the engine in moving from farm to farm.
They were mostly employed by people who went into threshing as a business or who had sawmills or some other line that required portable power.
Swan told him he was a damned liar, and commenced beating him over the head with a hickory cane, and the slave retreated backwards; Swan followed him about two rods, threshing him over the head with the hickory as he went.
Gideon was "threshing wheat" when called to lead the host against the Midianites.
In the winter the horn blew at about four in the morning, and all the threshers were required to be at the threshing floor in fifteen minutes after.
Gideon was "threshing wheat" when called to lead the host against the Midianites.
Gideon, the deliverer of Israel, was "threshing wheat by the wine press" when called to lead the host against the Midianites.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
The owner of the threshing machine covered it up with canvas, and all those who had been helping, as soon as they had supper, started to make the journey to their homes.
One more day would finish the stacks, and as this was the last threshing to be done in the neighborhood, the greatest effort was put forth to finish it before the weather broke.
So she fed him to a threshing machine of her acquaintance, which managed to masticate some of the more modern portions, but was hopelessly wrecked upon the neck.
Finally the newspaper vanished into his face like a wisp of straw drawn into a threshing machine.
The threshing machine was threatening their work, and so upon the threshing machine wherever they found it the labourers set with a vengeance.
The poverty which compelled the farmer to use the threshing machine, bore down the labourer to unprecedented distress, and drove him to desperation.
One day in winter, when the thermometer ranged far below zero, this man had been threshing in our barn, when he was seized with inflammation of the chest, and forced to return home.
He pulled the trigger and, before the sharp report that followed had died away, the monstrous, snake was threshing its huge body about in agony.
The awnings bellied monstrously and began splitting under the terrific uplift of the wind; and here and there lashings gave way and left corners threshing desperately for freer play.
Listen to those clanging bells and the frantic choruses of yells which sound above the threshing of the trees and the grind of the surf!
An instant later the pen was a vortex of foam, in the midst of which whirled the white shoulders of the commander, and through which cut with lightning flashes the black dorsal and tail fins of the threshing shark.
When the seeds are more fully ripened, they may be separated by the threshing mill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threshing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
