"Thresh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... collectively, lay the promise: "Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Behold I will make thee [make thee to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel." ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows
... counted very simple, that for the ominous shreekes of an unluckie, hoarce-voist, dead-devouring night-raven or two, or for feare of the malice of his worst conditioned neighbors, would neglect either to till and sowe his ground, or after in due time to reape and thresh out his harvest, that might benefite so many others with that, which both their want might desire, and their thankfulness would deserve. So did I intend my first seede, so doe I my harvest. The first fruites onely reserved to my Honorable Patrones, the ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... while the onions bore a plentiful crop of seeds, and the Indians began to gather and thresh it. ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
... father's words are true ones: 'A trade is not a burden, but a profit.' Now come to my capital for a trial; people like you are welcome. And when the season for harvest arrives, the time to reap, to bind in bundles the golden grain, to thresh and carry the wheat to the market, I will let you go home with ...
— Folk Tales from the Russian • Various
... said Matthew. "He used to pommel and thresh her up and doon, and that's why she cut away frae him, and that's why she's sic ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
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