How To Use Scythe In A Sentence

Make sure that all sharp implements, such as scythes, have covers.
On the stroke of half time Oxford once again scythed through the shaky gold defence, hooker Andy Dalgleish supplying Bradshaw with the perfect pass to score his second of the evening.
The scythe has been used since Roman times to mow hay.
Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook.
Although Mark Dornford-May's production is played in 18th century costume, it takes a scythe to the text and cuts many of the more pointed lines.

While an undoubtedly pejorative term, it is of use in understanding the pervasive freshness that scythes through the nose on first sniff and continues into the palate.
And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar. Dragonfly in Amber
Nexon to get updated on other content that will be added to it, including "Evy," the mage character, who wields a quarterstaff (that can be modified to become a giant scythe) and the power of Source-engine-powered sorcery. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
The Drumaness bowler scythed through the defence of Alan Millar with just the second delivery of his first over, dismissing the Bangor opener for 4 runs.
The former has the classically draped general rising from his sarcophagus, while around him the pyramid of Eternity crumbles and the figure of Time breaks his scythe.
Many of them were armed with nothing more than scythe blades mounted on the end of long poles.
Yes, five hours had been gathered in by the grim scytheman. Waifs and Strays Part 1
He cradled the grain with a scythe and tied it by hand with straw.
The day was warm, the air sweet with the scent of scythed grass and chopped blackthorn.
Normally I would hop on a bus to get me back home, but this time I decide I'd walk, up the hills and down the valleys one day I'll get lucky (or buy the right equipment) The curlew is a bird that has captured my imagination since I was a child, we used to travel by bus each Thursday afternoon (along the road in the second picture) to school swimming lessons and from the bus I could see the curlews with their scythe like beaks striding through the rough pasture, they seemed very exotic to me. Uphilldowndale
Both of them were on the edge of the reaper's scythe that morning, and surely their luck could not take them too far.
Her knives were twice a long as a scythe set straight upon the handle.
Climbing on the roof, Gawain suddenly heard a violent noise, clattering off the cliff like a grindstone on a scythe.
They use no machinery, only human labor and simple tools such as axes, knives, hoes, scythes and sickles.
From the wide common over the thick waving fragrant grass came the sweet country music of the white sleeved mowers whetting their scythes and the voices of the children at play among the fresh-cut flowery swaths. Weatherwatch: Midsummer in Wiltshire in 1875
Sharpening a European scythe is a combination of hammering (called peening) and honing with a whetstone.
He seems none the worse for wear, despite momentarily leaning on his scythe for support.
But it was Death, with a scythe and an amiable manner. Times, Sunday Times
'May the foul fiend, booted and spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a scythe at his girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling him that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler! Waverley — Volume 1
Before the scythe could get halfway through its arc, the void-sword was flashing through the air, severing the long haft of the farm tool.
After a scythe has been taken to the public sector. The Sun
Often those attempting something positive were scythed down by ill-timed interventions.
The Four Horsemen, whose appearance, experts believe, marks the imminence of a major conflict, are armed with state-of-the-art swords, scythes and hourglasses, as well as a fully operational last trumpet.
The whole idea that the entire country took to arms with pitchforks and scythes is also a fallacy.
Behind them, the B1 roared into its takeoff, engines screaming, cutting through the night air like a scythe. MINUTES TO BURN
The sides of the strickle are smeared with grease upon which fine gritty sand is sprinkled freely; nothing gives a better edge to a scythe than this.
The nest to come in was the scytheman, so cheerful and so brown When Jones's Ale Was New (3)
His cold, dark grey eyes scythed across the bare antechamber, coming to rest upon a small, wrinkled old hunchbacked man who had come through the door at the opposite side if the room.
How much profit is left when you have to pay an ironsmith, an apprentice, a temporary worker, when you've sold this many scythes, knives, and shovels? Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
He checked that the Demeter was good there till the morning, pushed his way through the crowd and set off along the great scythe of beach. AMAGANSETT
Reapers and binders enabled farmers to harvest from ten to twenty acres of grain per day, depending on field conditions, with far less labor than that required to cut the grain with a scythe and rake and bind the sheaves by hand.
In flight, the swift is easily identified by its characteristic scythe-shaped wings, and it's screaming calls.
I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe.
Pinnæ linear-lanceolate, scythe-shaped, auricled on the upper side, and with bristly teeth; fertile pinnæ contracted toward the top, bearing two rows of sori, which soon become confluent and cover the entire surface. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
As predicted, Jenny moved alongside of her, following her to the cart to dump the wheat and back again to the scythe and the remaining acre of uncut wheat crop, all the while talking without stopping.
As her scythe moved mechanically through the bean field, a sandy-colored hare was startled out of its hiding place.
Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever, like a hare caught by a harvest scythe.
To be fair, a remote control inflatable clownfish does sound pretty special …31 mins A frisson of excitement among the away support as Petrov sprints away on an attempted break, only for Palacios to scythe him down from behind. Stoke v Aston Villa - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
The lifetime paratrooper who explained Buford's tactics to me with clinical expertise tears up at the Antietam "Cornfield," where Joseph Hooker's men marched through rows of ripe corn in the mist of a September sunrise and were scythed down just as neatly. Refighting the Battle of Gettysburg
Hear the sheer drag of scythe on metal the shunter makes at the curve of the viaduct while, with elongated wail, rolls three spoil-wagons to the hollow hill. Unmanned
They bend over in the small barley fields, terraced out of the mountainsides, cutting the sheaves with sickle moon scythes.
With sharpened scythes and pitchforks, with pointed staves and heavy truncheons and ironshod clubs, they killed the miserable Germans all day long, and the line of escape was marked along the Beauvoisine road by corpses almost to The Story of Rouen
A man started toward Rubenstein with a long-handled scythe and Rourke shouted, "Watch out!" then started to bring the Python out of the Ranger cammie holster on his pistol belt. The Nightmare Begins
The Persian plan was to use the scythed chariots—deadly vehicles with blades attached to their wheels—first to tear through the enemy and throw the lines into confusion, opening their own hole in the Macedonian army. Alexander the Great
From Sheffield, famous for making scissors, scythes, knives, razors, and the like, 769 metalworkers petitioned Parliament in 1789.
There's nothing to anticipate but the broad scythe of the reaper that will cut you down. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
And now one resident in the estate has had to resort to cutting the two-foot high grass with a scythe just to let his son and the other youngsters in the estate play.
We went down the footpath to her house between a small army of native boys who were cutting the coarse grass with scythes, known in West Africa as pangas.
Any chariots may have scythed wheels at an additional cost of 20 points per chariot.
Instead, save the scythe for the kitschy styling, indolent performances, and hokey gags.
The whetting of the scythe's blade with the 'strickle', smeared over with grease and fine sand, producing an edge like a sharp knife, was a familiar sound.
I have just returned from 10 days in Panama where my favorite birds were White-tipped sicklebill, Rufous-crested coquette, and Brown-billed scythebill.
Make sure that all sharp implements, such as scythes, have covers.
She placed the slimy cud behind her, picking up another shock of lazy, lilting grasses — she selected two, let the remains scuttle greenily in the wind, placed a leafy scythe to my lips. We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red
They went down like scythed wheat as their quarry turned upon them.
We have you out-numbered, out-gunned and out-scythed.
Clutched loosely with one bird-like hand, was a massive scythe.
Further up on the gable's crest are Vices and Death with a scythe at the very top.
Armed with machetes and machineguns, the raiders scythe through the rows of huts, torching their thatched roofs.
Only Father Death reaped a bountiful harvest as he scythed the children of the community.
Artistic affairs here are in so vile a condition, so rotten, so fit for decay, that only a bold scytheman is required who understands the right cut. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
Then, too, I had seen Cressent’s bronze clock Love Triumphing over Time, in which Cupid steals the hourglass and scythe from Time. THE DIAMOND
We also took turns at turning the crank of the grindstone when scythes needed to be sharpened.
However, here in North Yorkshire do we apply the Luddite mentality and return to the pitchfork and scythe?
It almost looks as though the slicer is using a scythe rather than a club sometimes.
The dim contour betrayed a scythe hanging on two pegs near the ceiling, its handle parallel to the ground.
He clears out the silt and mud that are clogging the rivers and dykes, and cuts and scythes the reeds and sedge that threaten to reclaim the broads, selling them for thatch.
Scythe - Hope of a fruitful harvest of things hoped for.
All the mowers would throw their scythes at the final stook so that no one person would be responsible for the corn spirit's death.
What you also know, though, is that the stooped figure with the scythe is not that scary after all. Times, Sunday Times
In his right hand they sometimes placed a sickle or scythe; at others, a key, and a circumflexed serpent biting its tail, in his left. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever, like a hare caught by a harvest scythe.
Since then residents have reported seeing children running around with a billhook a small scythe and using saws to cut down trees at the nearby Seven Fields Nature Reserve.
Most continued to use the same tools as their grandparents: scythes and sickles for reaping wheat and cutting grass, and wooden plows and harrows.
She narrow missed a heavy laser beam as it scythed by her.
I find this Scythe of the Celt to be quite a disturbing force.
Some knotty knapweeds stay in out-of-the-way places, where the scythe has not been; some bunches of mayweed, too, are visible in the corners of the stubble. Nature Near London
He also often bears a scythe or sickle in his arms, reflecting that Time's eroding force cuts down everything.
No one is sure how they were used, but Harelson believed that they were attached in twos or threes to a long stick and used for cutting plants like a scythe.
Because we had long lengths of wide ditches where tall reeds grew in proliferation, we used to cut them using long-polled scythes and tie the stems into bundles.
Croft galloped across the field, jumped the low hedge into the meadow, across that and into an apple and pear orchard, well cared for; the branches pruned, the grass regularly scythed.
When the mower wanted a new snathe or snead, as he called it, for his scythe, he found in the woods a deformed sapling that had grown under a log or twisted around a rock in a double bend, which made it the exact shape desired. Home Life in Colonial Days
Its scythe - like tail into the water, the fishing line to slide down quickly also.
The clear metallic sound of the "strake" or sharpening strop, covered with pure white Loch Skerrow sand set in grease, which scythemen universally use in Galloway, cut through the slumberous hum of the noonday air like the blade itself through the grass. The Lilac Sunbonnet
scythe grass or grain
The auction was accompanied by a market where you might buy smoked or salted fish and meat, wooden articles like scythes and strickles and of course beer and the local speciality: black coffee with snaps.
Sector heavyweights like Anglo-American have got the message and have taken a scythe to costs. Times, Sunday Times
We know of several people who mow lawns with a scythe.
Last week I saw burnet roses in the dunes of Northumberland: low scrubby sticks scythed by North Sea winds blooming with constellations of white flowers. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Still, given the tall grass in his yard, the goat company returned with a scythe to neaten up. Free-Range Landscaping
Last week I saw burnet roses in the dunes of Northumberland: low scrubby sticks scythed by North Sea winds blooming with constellations of white flowers. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
But the small party does not manage to remain separate, for it meets a masqued procession featuring Winged Time, his scythe and hourglass.
“Apollo and the Muses do not yet intend me to become the prey of the bony scytheman, as I have yet much to do for you, and much to bequeath, which my spirit dictates and calls on me to complete before I depart hence for the Elysian Fields; I feel as if I had written scarcely more than a few notes.” Beethoven A Character Study
The racing car left the track at 120 mph and scythed through the crowd of spectators, killing ten.
But it was Death, with a scythe and an amiable manner. Times, Sunday Times
The whole idea that the entire country took to arms with pitchforks and scythes is also a fallacy.
Make sure that all sharp implements, such as scythes,[Sentence dictionary] have covers.
He had wielded it for the last time at God's command, he was not going to play the part of death's scytheman any more at the bidding of man. The Day of Wrath
Pesticides, similarly, were unknown: docks, nettles and thistles were scythed away by hand just as they came into seed.
He told me that he cuts the grass with a scythe. Times, Sunday Times
It was that sort of upbringing, I now suppose, that has always led me to see guns as just tools, as part of the panoply of rural management alongside the scythe, the billhook and the castrating shears. Guns Kill People ( Shock News)
What belongs to time is owned by time, subject to the Fates; what is born in time ends by time's scythe.
The creature's claws were as curved like scythes, and as long as long swords.
But it was Death, with a scythe and an amiable manner. Times, Sunday Times
When the Thracian slave Spartacus fights in the arena, vast crowns of blood fan suddenly from head wounds, arms are scythed off, a man bereft of legs is pitchforked in the back, and blood spots spatter the camera lens. John Hannah: 'I play a devious, lying, cheating, ambitious mother******. It's great!'
But he was also skilled at the bow, the short ax, the dirk, the scythe, the dagger, even the great battle axe.
Until the mid-20th century, a lengthman carrying a scythe was employed to cut back the vegetation along every road and lane. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
As I waited outside the changing rooms, in came 3 short and corpulent Punjabi middle-aged ladies (well above 50-their age that is) with their Hindi / Punjabi breaking the relative silence like a scythe through the sarson da kheth. Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
She prattles on a mile per breathless minute, wields her parasol like a reaper's scythe, flutters the long lashes curtaining her sapphire eyes, and emerges as utterly charming.
The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom.
Two men were attempting to scythe the long grass.
Willy has decided to send Mally and the bairns away from the farm, while he will sharpen his old "lea" (scythe) and remain behind to defend his homestead. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
When the twice-born secretary of the interior drops to his knees on the office carpet to begin his official day with his zealot's orisons he does not pray to God the builder, the shepherd, or the tender of the vines; he is communicating with God the abolisher, God the swinger of scythes. Know Thy President
They fell trees with handsaws, heat their homes with wood, cut the hay with scythes and milk the cows, weed the fields and harvest the crops by hand.
He saw the long grass scythed down and dying in the fragrance of new-mown hay. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
What you also know, though, is that the stooped figure with the scythe is not that scary after all. Times, Sunday Times
Sector heavyweights like Anglo-American have got the message and have taken a scythe to costs. Times, Sunday Times
By the book's endpapers, the swing had turned into a scythe. Times, Sunday Times
When the ice retreated, we terminated the long and biologically rich epoch sometimes called the Edenic period with assaults from our newest weapons: hoes, scythes, cattle, goats, pigs. Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
We also took turns at turning the crank of the grindstone when scythes needed to be sharpened.
He's cutting grass with a scythe.
A guffawing scytheman, moreover, pressed with his horny palm the hand of The Day of Wrath
The Empire - and its religion - survived until the crescent moon of Islam scythed across the region in the 7th century AD.
Pesticides, similarly, were unknown: docks, nettles and thistles were scythed away by hand just as they came into seed.
In front of their line, at considerable intervals from each other, were stationed the chariots called scythed chariots; they had scythes projecting obliquely from the axletree, and others under the driver's seat, pointing to the earth, for the purpose of cutting through whatever came in their way; and the design of them was to penetrate and divide the ranks of the The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis
One felt that the Navy might rally if Oxford took their foot off, and so it proved as the Blues rotated their side. The Navy scythed through the new centre pairing with Jamie Caruana touching down.
Omega, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta squadrons silently scythed into space and awaited their orders from positions concealed by their cloaking systems.
After the cutter has done its work, an expert scytheman takes off most of what remains of the grass, and the heavy roller grinds out the substance of what is left. Archive 2009-03-01
Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract. Dracula
What you also know, though, is that the stooped figure with the scythe is not that scary after all. Times, Sunday Times
Still, by the end of 1993, the political landscape had been scythed so clean of rivals or opponents that the Party seemed on the brink of power, if only by elimination of alternatives.
The No.9 scythed through a number of tackles before deftly hand-passing to the net, a la Angela Downey of old.
Power began to flow out from Father Time's scythe.
I screamed, firing back, emptying my weapon into the fleeing figures: mowing several down like scythed wheat.
Apparently, a true scyther keeps his shirt on as protection from the sun. The Sun
The family had never owned one, but when the boy was supposed to be working, he would be battling imaginary monsters and fiends with his father's scythe.
The vault of one chapel bears the image of the Grim Reaper: His face is a real human skull, while the blade of his scythe is created with a column of coccyges see photo above. Spooky Rome: The Capucin Crypt at eternallycool.net
He's just scythed through Adriano on the edge of the area, bringing him down, but the referee played the advantage. Real Madrid v Barcelona – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg
The halberd is a far cry from the powerful scythe you'll be armed with for the majority of the game; nonetheless, Dante is a powerful fighter and you'll make quick work of the enemy soldiers by using both light and heavy attacks (tied to the X and Y buttons on the Xbox 360 controller, respectively). GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
He told me that he cuts the grass with a scythe. Times, Sunday Times
The racing car left the track at 120 mph and scythed through the crowd of spectators, killing ten.
Bar iron from a local "bloomery" or perhaps "Sweet" (Swede) iron brought from Philadelphia furnished the material for nails, cut or forged by hand, horseshoes, plows, wagon tires, grain scythes, hinges, locks, etc. From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina
But you may be a little alarmed by the photographs because surely, you're thinking, the car in question is an instrument of Satan, the Reaper's scythe.
The angel of death still appears at the entryway, waves his scythe, and off we go to who knows where.
No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.
After a scythe has been taken to the public sector. The Sun
They use no machinery, only human labor and simple tools such as axes, knives, hoes, scythes and sickles.
The descriptions one has so often seen, of entire ranks and files of British infantry lying dead almost symmetrically, like so much freshly scythed wheat, are all true. The Pity of War
Cavalry units from many nations formed the long center of the front line, along with scythed chariot squadrons, thousands of archers, and the elephants the Indians had brought. Alexander the Great
Reaping will be by scythe and a 1953 Ferguson tractor, stooking - stacking the sheaves - will be by hand and threshing will involve a Victorian barn thresher.
For thee, O mistress mine, I bring this woven wreath, culled from a virgin meadow, where nor shepherd dares to herd his flock nor ever scythe hath mown, but o'er the mead unshorn the bee doth wing its way in spring; and with the dew from rivers drawn purity that garden tends. Hippolytus

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