55 collocations for mows

Then there is the interdependence of the universe: the baby is to thank Jenny for his bread and milk, Peter for mowing the grass for the cow, "until you come to the last ring of all, God's father love for all.

Stop a moment to look at the rusticks mowing a field, and they will presently quit their work to come to you, and ask something to drink.'

No one would suspect him of being cracked, he looks as quiet and respectable as the pony that mows the lawn.

The principal owners of the Sea Lion, of Holmes' Hole, were husbandmen also; folk who literally tilled the earth, cradled their own oats and rye, and mowed their own meadows.

We mowed three acres, which produced rather more than six loads of hay.*

Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And through the kindred squadrons mow their way.

There was iron in the plough that broke up the field, in the axe that felled the tree for building houses, in the scythe that mowed the grain, and in the knife, which could be turned to all sorts of uses.

Like the sickle of death did they mow down the ranks of the enemy, and whole rows fell at once.

"It makes you sick to see the way that the Germans literally walk into the very mouth of the machine guns and cannon spouting short-fused shrapnel that mow down their lines and tear great gaps in them," said a Belgian major who was badly wounded.

Rickcloths prevent rain from spoiling the rising rick, mowing machines, haymaking machines, and horse rakes enable a spell of good weather to be taken advantage of, and the hay got in quickly, instead of lying about till the rain returns.

" Bolivar went out in the street and mowed a wide swath, with pa after him, hooking him all the time, but he paid no attention to pa.

The snow bends and trims the upper forests every winter, the lightning strikes a single tree here and there, while avalanches mow down thousands at a swoop as a gardener trims out a bed of flowers.

A bodle a piece for mowing chins overgrown with hair like pin-wire, and thick with dust; how would you like that?

Another very early memory is one of grief, to see from the window how the gardener was mowing down all the daisies, and there were so many, in the grass; and yet another is of a high, grassy, sunny field with a little stream running far down below.

But if our executive departments were mere committees of the legislaturelike the English cabinet, for examplethis independence could not possibly be maintained; and the loss of it would doubtless entail upon us evils far greater than those which mow flow from want of leadership in our legislatures.

a wind had mowed the earth-sprung fog; And lo! on high the white exultant moon From clear blue window curtained all with white, Greeted them, at their shadowy window low, With quiet smile; for two things made her glad: One that she saw the glory of the sun; For while the earth lay all athirst for light, She drank the fountain-waves.

And yet two of the young Peregrines in the village are wonderfully good cricketers, and as "keen as mustard" about it; though when it comes to rolling and mowing the ground they are not quite as keen.

He mowed down harvests of evil as in his youth he mowed the grass, and all his hours of study were but whetting the scythe.

But he called the minnikin grass-plot his meadow, and talked very largely about mowing his hay.

I forgot him, and swept at the traitor weeds, And they fell before me like broken reeds; Dropt their heads, as a boy doth mow The poppies' heads with his unstrung bow.

That in the Gardin of Adonis springs, Is wicked Time; who with his scythe addrest Does mow the flowring herbes and goodly things, And all their glory to the ground downe flings, Where they do wither and are fowly mard He flyes about, and with his flaggy wings Beates downe both leaves and buds without regard, Ne ever pitty may relent his malice hard.

Again and again the 75's on the hill mowed down the advancing hordes and the heavy guns behind completed their work.

" Even where fields have begun to be tilled and houses and barns to be built, the scared flying of domestic animals at sound of the terrific visitor,the resistless chariot of civilization with scythed axles mowing down ignorance and prejudice as it whirls along,tells a whole story of change and wonder.

ON, then, ye brave' like tigers rage, That you may win your crown, Mowing both infancy and age In ruthless carnage down.

The batteries placed on the hills were at the same time unmasked, and mowed down the infantry.

55 collocations for  mows