SCYTHE in a Sentence

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For SCYTHE, below is one of 21 sentences:
He felt as he swung his scythe that he was at the very end of his strength, and was making up his mind to ask Tit to stop.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCYTHE
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scythe
 n.  instrument for mowing grass, grain by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  And send my scythe, please, to Tit, for him to set it, and bring it round tomorrow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
2  He was in front of all, and cut his wide row without bending, as though playing with the scythe.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
3  Levin got off his mare, and fastening her up by the roadside went to meet Tit, who took a second scythe out of a bush and gave it to him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
4  Levin took the scythe, and began trying it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
5  He felt as he swung his scythe that he was at the very end of his strength, and was making up his mind to ask Tit to stop.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
6  But at that very moment Tit stopped of his own accord, and stooping down picked up some grass, rubbed his scythe, and began whetting it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
7  Behind him came a peasant, and he too was evidently tired, for he stopped at once without waiting to mow up to Levin, and began whetting his scythe.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
8  Tit moved on with sweep after sweep of his scythe, not stopping nor showing signs of weariness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
9  It was as though it were not he but the sharp scythe of itself swishing through the juicy grass.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
10  When a hillock came he changed his action, and at one time with the heel, and at another with the tip of his scythe, clipped the hillock round both sides with short strokes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
11  Levin walked after him and often thought he must fall, as he climbed with a scythe up a steep cliff where it would have been hard work to clamber without anything.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
12  The metallic clank of a whetstone against a scythe, that came to them from the cart, ceased.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 17
13  Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
14  Gradually, as he rode towards the meadow, the peasants came into sight, some in coats, some in their shirts mowing, one behind another in a long string, swinging their scythes differently.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
15  He glanced at the sky in the interval for whetting the scythes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  A frame projecting above a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.