Word: reapings
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...brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father's death), he hitched four horses to an ungainly contraption, "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled...
...Mephistopheles. While the crass and unbaked author may not have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear of hell, there is no danger of his going to either place, but one thing is as certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown" in an effort to poison the minds of untrained thinkers?especially the young. Again the publishers' "ad" is unethical in that it says, "Send no money in advance," but when the postman comes $2.60 must be dug up in a hurry. This word is written...
...with the intention of calling the anti-Pact Nationalists' bluff that they would abstain from voting. The purpose of each group has been to make the other seem responsible for whatever the Reichstag does. Now the Socialists have taken the plunge. They intend to assume the responsibility and reap the rewards of making possible a coalition capable of ratifying the Pacts. Chancellor Luther has allegedly promised them that the present Cabinet will resign if and when the Pacts are signed, and that in the new Cabinet the Socialists will be well represented...
Naturally, since Britain had quite literally the upper hand of the seas during the War, she was far more anxious to keep the secrets of the M-1 class of submarine out of German hands than to reap a slight advantage from employing "monitor subs" herself...
...country superior to Channing Pollock. In The Fool he made a million dollars (for someone) and made a million people weep by employing the obvious emotional devices of religion in a commercial play. He has used the correspondingly obvious emotional devices of war in The Enemy and will probably reap vast rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe that he is a great evangelist of human faith and progress. Probably such...