The grain had all been cut and stacked, and was waiting for the thresher to come on its rounds.

"This monkey-wrench was thrown upon the platform, carried to the elevator into the thresher....

"That thresher's on fire," shouted Dorn, pointing toward a big machine that was attached by an endless driving belt to an engine.

Then flame followed the smoke out of the thresher.

The big thresher was reduced to a blazing, smoking hulk in short order.

"But what can we prove?" "That's proof," declared Dorn, pointing at the ruined thresher.

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.

In times of harvest, when a big gang is at work, the breakdown of a thresher will stop operations for a whole day, if the farmer has to drive to town behind a horse to get needed parts.

And although Cibber protested, and ridiculed the new title, as no more sensible than "Volunteer Duke, Marquis, or Prime Minister," still Savage adhered to it and the pension tenaciously, sharing the Queen's favor with Stephen Duck, the marvellous "Thresher," whose effusions were still more to her taste.

Well, rather than he shall have no employment but lick dishes, I will set him a work myself, to write in praise of the art of stooping, and how there never was any famous thresher, porter, brewer, pioneer, or carpenter that had straight back.

The Sword-fish and Thresher Shark also help to destroy this harmless giant of the deep.

It is said, by those who have seen such a fight, that the Thresher's tail cuts deep into the Whale's sides.

The Fox Shark, or Thresher, is another fierce visitor to these shores.

The Thresher swims rapidly round and round them.

The Thresher adds to their panic by threshing the water with its terrible tail.

Half the length of the Thresher is tail.

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.

2. How does the Thresher Shark hunt its prey?

Tribulatio ditut: and which Camerarius hath well shadowed in an emblem of a thresher and corn, "Si tritura absit paleis sunt abdita

But the Lord arose with His sword, and scattered His disobedient angels as a thresher scatters chaff.

ELDER, ROBERT F. Organization and management of a business enterprise, by Robert F. Elder, Karl D. Fernstrom, Wyman P. Fiske, Albert A. Schaefer & B. Alden Thresher.

This mill was operated by two men and was capable of threshing about two bushels of wheat per hourpretty slow work as compared with that of a modern thresher.

Much about this time Stephen Duck, who had wrote a poem called The Thresher, reaped very great advantages from it, and was caressed by persons in power, who, in imitation of the Royal patroness, heaped favours upon him, perhaps more on account of the extraordinary regard Queen Caroline had shewn him, than any opinion of his merit.

Mr. Banks considered that the success of Mr. Duck was certainly owing to the peculiarity of his circumstances, and that the novelty of a thresher writing verses, was the genuine cause of his being taken notice of, and not any intrinsic excellence in the verses themselves.

He wrote, in imitation of The Thresher, The Weaver's Miscellany, which failed producing the intended effect, and, 'tis said, never was reckoned by Mr. Banks himself as any way worthy of particular distinction.