The roads are lined with peasants armed with all sorts of weapons, iron spikes, dung-forks, clubs, scythes, and old swords from the time of our great-grandfathers.

Fetch all the bags an' brooms an' scythes.

[Enter an army of fifteen Irish patriots, armed with pikes of great scythes.] 1st PATRIOT."Hurroo for KING JAMES, we'll dhrive the Orange-men into the say.

We rolled back our sleeves, stood our scythes on end and gave them a final lively stoning.

We would stand a moment in the shade, whetting our scythes, not saying much, but glad to be there together.

The scythes were oddly heavy and hot to the touch, and the stones seemed hardly to make a sound in the heavy noon air.

Ah, if scythes are whetting, the reapers will soon be harvesting the golden grain!

Many of them still reaped with scythes and thrashed on the barn floor with old-fashioned flails, and one afternoon there was a curious plaintive singing under my windowa party of harvesters, oldish men and brown, barefooted peasant girls, who had finished their work on a neighboring farm, and were crossing our village on their way to their own.

Somehow they had ploughed and sowed and brought it to harvest, and now with scythes, with knives even, sometimes, they were getting it under cover.

And with them everywhere were the Russian prisoners, swinging scythes, binding grain, sometimes coming down the road, without even a guard, sprawled in the sun on a load of straw.

Some were armed with muskets, some with axes, some with scythes; some came on their masters' horses.

About a dozen scythes tied together are used.

In weed-cutting by hand, instead of with the long knives, it is wonderful how many trout get cut by the scythes.

One would have thought trout would have been able to avoid the scythes, being such quick, slippery animals.

The scythes mowed them all down in May, and again in July, in the broad "millpound," so that they do not grow so tall by the main stream; but the back brook, the natural course of the river before the mills were made, was left unmolested by the mowers, and is a mass of life and colour.

About a mile distant, on the left of the road is the Brades, where Messrs. William Hunt and Sons have established a considerable manufacture of iron and steel, which they form into scythes, hay knives, trowels, and every kind of hoe now in use.

Unlike the American farmer, they were too poor to buy machines to work for them, and with scythes and sickles in hand they cut the grain; with heavy flails they beat it.

l'Arabie, passer le Gange, soumettre des pays inconnus, faire trembler les Scythes sur les bords du Tanaïs, et ranger sous nos lois toute une moitié du monde.

The royal flight created a great uproar at Cracow; the noblemen, and even the peasants, armed with stakes and scythes, set out in pursuit of their king.

Now ring the sharp scythes of the mowers all day, And they spread to the air the sweet-scented hay; They pile up the wagon ere daylight is done, And singing come home with the set of the sun.

At that instant a fearful cry arose from beneath, which was echoed from the rocks around, and ten or fifteen savage-looking beings climbed from under the bridge, with lances formed of upright scythes.

"Back, Wallachian dogs!" cried Imre, cutting two of them down, while several others sprang forward with the scythes.

By the light of a few torches, a hideous crowd was seen before the windows, armed with scythes and axes, which they were brandishing with fearful menaces.

Rushing to the scene I found a few Southern whites armed with repeating rifles, facing a large band of negroes carrying a motley array of pitchforks, scythes, razors, clubs, and a few ancient shotguns.

Worse than that, he cruelly lays scythes, bill-hooks and other formidable weapons edge upwards so as to cut and mangle the poor wretches when they drop plump upon them from the clouds.