reaping-machine

First of all, he loitered to watch a reaping-machine at work; then he turned into a lane which led up the hill on which was John

New Grub Street 2003

The mauser is not the only reaping-machine the great harvester employs in war time.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

He can dispense with an apple-parer and a reaping-machine.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

The reaping-machine was in sight now; it had stopped on the hillside.

K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

The dead lanterns swung in the morning air, and from back on the hill came the staccato sounds of a reaping-machine.

K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

It cannot be denied, however, that when an electric tram swept past her like a terrace under weigh, closely followed by a cart laden with a clanking and horrific reaping-machine, she showed that she possessed powers of observation.

All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

Jimmy says it made the men stop work and look at each other, and the man who was driving the reaping-machine got down to see where it wanted oiling.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 Various 1898

Not long after, a reaping-machine was brought and driven back and forth in the field, and down went all the wheat ears before the great knives.

Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories 1893

"The reaping-machine will come and cut you down, and other strange things will happen."

Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories 1893

There was one wearing a pale pink coat, another in a cream-coloured tight-sleeved gown, another in a petticoat as red as the arms of the reaping-machine; and others, older, in the brown-rough 'wropper' or over-all -- the old-established and most appropriate dress of the field-woman, which the young ones were abandoning.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891