"Mown" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rush towards the windmill, but we no sooner top the hill than the English machine guns begin to rattle. Our front ranks are mown down. Every attempt to advance fails. The order was given to lie down and there we remained for four hours. Then we rush one after the other through a hedge. When darkness fell we had nearly reached ...
— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith
... a puff at my unlighted cigarette. It also smelled like recently mown hay. I felt that I was slipping my cables and heading toward an ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... convicts, who, on all occasions, were put in the post of danger. At the attack on the Alamo they were promised a free pardon if they took the place. Nevertheless, they advanced reluctantly enough to the attack, and twice, when they saw their ranks mown down by the fire of the Texians, they turned to fly, but each time they were driven back to the charge by the bayonets and artillery of their countrymen. At last, when the greater part of these unfortunates ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various
... shall I do?" said Baugi the Giant. "My fields will not be mown now, and I shall have no hay to feed my cattle and my ...
— The Children of Odin - The Book of Northern Myths • Padraic Colum
... magnifying, and softening powers of the atmosphere. Hence, on the score even of sublimity, the superiority of the Alps is by no means so great as might hastily be inferred;—and, as to the beauty of the lower regions of the Swiss Mountains, it is noticeable—that, as they are all regularly mown, their surface has nothing of that mellow tone and variety of hues by which mountain turf, that is never touched by the scythe, is distinguished. On the smooth and steep slopes of the Swiss hills, these plots of verdure do indeed agreeably unite their colour with ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
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