
(16) The reapers gave out a group sigh of relief and loosened their grip slightly looking to John for instruction. (15) In an ideal world, shepherds have plenty of meat, and even reapers share in the royal ox-roast portrayed on Achilles' shield. (14) The Reaper has come knocking at least five times over the last 72 years, but every time the author has sent him packing. (13) You probably racked up a decent score before your date with the Reaper. (12) Here the grass crops are more traditional and thinner, so these reapers work well.

(11) As part of our calling to family practice, we like to encourage our patients to be planters as well as reapers of the harvest that grows in each community. (10) 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. (9) Both of them were on the edge of the reaper 's scythe that morning, and surely their luck could not take them too far. (8) Kouru stumbled backwards and thought about committing ritual suicide but then remembered that her sword was a wooden one, she instead resigned herself to just collapse and await the reaper. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. (7) In 1831, he took up the project his father had pursued unsuccessfully for twenty years: building a reaper to speed the harvesting of small grains. One that reaps, especially a machine for harvesting grain or pulse crops. (6) However, it was not until the mid-19th century that agricultural machinery, for example the reaper and the traction-engine, began to be adopted by farmers. (5) The mechanical reaper and later improvements created a huge United States market for binding twine.

(4) Earlier in the year they had grown barley, cut it with a reaper and binder and had it all in sheafs. (3) Later on, of course, he had to pay the reaper, give up his high flying Rock ‘n’ Roll life style, put the demon alcohol behind him and take up golf, but that's another avenue we can descend down on another trip. (2) Yet it is no exaggeration to say that the mechanical reaper had as significant an impact on American society as any other invention in the country's history. (1) And he's known to leave his opponents to the reaper.
