The reapers were busy in the harvest fields; and the ground that is cleared of its burdens gives proof of the diligence of the French farmer; the plougher, if not the sower, literally overtakes the reaper.

He took the next upon the second draught of lambs in August, which paid the reapers.

Cyrus H. McCormick solved this problem for the wheat growers by inventing a horse reaper.

A woman, (of the right kind,) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth followed the reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often the finest of the wheat.

Mochuda answered: "Go in peace, dear brother, and God will send you satisfactory reapers."

I have had a large, a fair, and a pleasant field; so fertile that, without my cultivating, it has given me two harvests in a summer, and in both oppressed the reaper.

I have sometimes been forced to amplify on others; but here, where the subject is so fruitful that the harvest overcomes the reaper, I am shortened by my chain, and can only see what is forbidden me to reach, since it is not permitted me to commend you, according to the extent of my wishes, and much less is it in my power to make my commendations equal to your merits.

Domingo and Mary personated the reapers.

She whom we heard play Amongst Hippocoön's reapers yesterday.

A busy man, the blacksmith, and brawny, if he had no spreading chestnut tree; busy not only shoeing farmhorses, but repairing American reapers and binders, whose owners profited exceedingly and saved the day.

Is not this a great problem, one to be pondered over and not hastily dismissed? Logical conclusions do not always come to pass in practice; even yet there is plenty of time for a change which shall retain these stalwart reapers amongst us, the strength and pride of the land.

Unc' Zenaslookcouldn't you ride the reaper if he wouldn't?

At last he saw some reapers and harvest-women at dinner.

He had staked a valuable horse; he had smashed a patent reaper; he had set fire to the ranch, and burnt up five hundred acres of bunch grass; and he had turned some of our quiet domestic cows into wild beasts, becauseas he put ithe wished to become a vaquero.

A harvest of death it had been that had been sownand the reaper had not waited for summer to come, and the Harvest moon.

In the fields, dry and burnt to our eyes after the green valleys, squatted the reapers, snipping the sparse ears, apparently one by one, with sickles like penknives.

At the corn and hay harvests they took in hired reapers, who often instead of wages received from the sixth to the ninth sheaf of the produce reaped, or, if they also thrashed, the fifth of the grain: Umbrian labourers, for instance, went annually in great numbers to the vale of Rieti, to help to gather in the harvest there.

When he saw her he asked the reapers "Whose damsel is this?"

Or I could be a splendid Squire And watch the harvest grow, Could urge the reaper to perspire And put the cattle in the byre (If that is where they go), And every morning do the rounds Of my immense ancestral grounds With six or seven faithful hounds, And say, "It looks like snow.

In 1857 Magnus and I bought a Seymour & Morgan hand-rake reaper.

I remembered vividly afterward that a white horse was drawing the reaper, and women and children were stacking and gleaning.

He came upon Wilbur Cowan inspecting a new reaper under one of the sheds.

It's de sower makes de reaper; Hoe yo' row!