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More "Thresher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... power; sooner or later it must contract and crush him. Even the momentary vision of Ulick, stripped to the waist and with a broad, red streak across his forehead, failed to arouse him. He could think only of a thresher with his flail as Ulick, bludgeoning right and left, won clear from the press of Stockader foes surrounding him and rejoined his own ranks. A confused idea that he wanted to speak to Ulick suddenly oppressed Constans; he half started to follow him. Piers Minor, at his elbow, ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... You are not like the thresher that doth stand With a huge flail, watching a heap of corn, And, hungry, dares not taste the smallest grain, But feeds on mallows, and such bitter herbs; Nor like the merchant, who hath filled his vaults With Romagnia, and rich Candian wines, Yet drinks the lees of Lombard's vinegar: ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 • Various
... came the Moorish boat—longer, narrower, more favoured by currents and winds, flying like a falcon towards its prey. It was a fearful race. Arthur's head began to swim, his breath to labour, his arms to move stiffly as a thresher's flail; but, just as power was failing him, an English cheer came over the waters, and restored strength for ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... shafts of whose tall elms We may discern the thresher at his task, Thump after thump resounds the constant flail That seems to swing uncertain, and yet falls Full on the destined ear. Wide flies the chaff, The rustling straw sends up a fragrant mist Of atoms, ...
— Cowper • Goldwin Smith
... United States, to Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, was for a threshing machine. The portable horse-power treadmill, invented in 1830 by Hiram A. and John A. Pitts of Winthrop, Maine, was presently coupled with a thresher, or "separator," and this outfit, with its men and horses, moving from farm to farm, soon became an autumn feature of every neighborhood. The treadmill was later on succeeded—by the traction engine, and the apparatus ...
— The Age of Invention - A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, Book, 37 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Holland Thompson
... Miss Thrasher, hardly older than Betty herself, and pretty in a white frightened way, refused, but almost cheerfully. "I have a Christmas box to open and Christmas letters to ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... wood-wagtail, OR oven-bird (Seiurus aurocapillus). Thrush, gray-cheeked (Hylocichla alicae). Thrush, hermit (Hylocichla guttata pallasii). Thrush, olive-backed, OR Swainson's thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni). Thrush, red, OR mavis, OR ferrugninous thrush, OR brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum). Thrush, varied (Ixoreus naevius). Thrush, Wilson's. SEE Veery. Thrush, wood (Hylocichla mustelina). Titlark. SEE Pipit, American. Titmouse, gray-crested, OR tufted titmouse (Baelophus bicolor). Turkey, domestic. Turkey, ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs
... man. He was handy, and amiable. He could lay a roof, or mend a thresher, it was all the same to him. What do you think, Jeminy? Anna Barly won't forget him ...
— Autumn • Robert Nathan
... thresher Duck could o'er the Queen prevail, The proverb says, "no fence against a flail." From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains, For which her Majesty allows him gains. Though 'tis confest, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw! Thrice happy Duck, ...
— Irish Wit and Humor - Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell • Anonymous
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