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1. You will thresh the mountain and
2. But if he had been at liberty to sell his whole crop to a corn mercliant as fast as he could thresh it out, his whole capital might have returned immediately to the land, and have been employed in buying more cattle, and hiring more servants, in order to improve and cultivate it better
3. instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff
4. did thresh the heathen in anger
5. as “a shameless, or wanton woman” but in the original word meant to tread out, or to thresh
6. door thresh hold by her eldest daughter, who was nearly eighty
7. Parents try to thresh out problems in the home with loving consideration of the individual differences and uniqueness displayed by each son and daughter of the family
8. The old men on the rising straw-rick talked of the past days when they had been accustomed to thresh with flails on the oaken barn-floor; when everything, even to winnowing, was effected by hand-labour, which, to their thinking, though slow, produced better results
9. ‘Go, Tit, thresh a bit!’ said the wag
10. "Let her thresh," says the master
11. I will thresh them first
12. It is not a difficult matter to thresh with several flails, but to keep in order, not to get confused (and not only to thresh, but not to interfere with the others), one has only to remember oneself, one’s own tempo while beating
13. And this will go on in July also, when the peasants, without obtaining sufficient sleep, reap the oats by night, lest it should fall, and the women rise gloomily to thresh out the straw for the bands to tie the sheaves; when this old woman, already utterly cramped by the labor of mowing, and the woman with child, and the young children, injure themselves overworking and over-drinking; and when neither hands, nor horses, nor carts will suffice to bring to the ricks that grain with which all men are nourished, and millions of poods [165] of which are daily required in Russia to keep people from perishing
14. “Go, Tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag
1. Aspen and Rogan yelled at Mars as he threshed in the sky
2. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart
3. threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of
4. 11 And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites
5. Miriam was the threshing-floor on which he threshed out all his beliefs
6. It was full of bundled hay, for winter fodder, and sheaves of barley and wheat waiting to be threshed
7. Finally, when he was utterly at a loss, it set off over the field of its own accord, padding easily along beside one of the rows of threshed straw, trailing the broken cord and pouncing in and out at every squeak and rustle
8. The handful of dazed, all too often wounded Church riflemen in the threshed and shattered trenches didn’t understand why the fire had stopped
9. was an excuse for his remaining, for when the threshed rick drew near its final sheaves a little ratting was always done, and men unconnected with the threshing sometimes dropped in for that performance—sporting characters of all descriptions, gents with terriers and facetious pipes, roughs with sticks and stones
10. It reared up, threshed the water, and rushed at the tower, its eyes filled with angry torment
11. Cooger, threshed in a final harvest, was now a billion parchment flecks, tumbled sea-scrolls capered in meadows
12. His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up
13. He began to work about the house: he got the wood ready for the winter with his son, threshed the grain with the women, thatched the sheds, gathered in the bees, and gave ten hives with the young brood to his neighbour
14. "No," he said, "I will do that with threshed straw, and I will not let full ears waste for nothing
1. It threshes miserably, no matter how you set the screw; it threshes badly, and the grain falls into the straw
1. drove the threshing machines which separated the wheat from the
2. wheat was separated from the ears by a threshing machine powered
3. 24The threshing floors will be filled 157
4. No more shall My beloved be subject to this threshing ground! No more shall My children be hurt upon your threshing floor, O most wicked generation!
5. You shall not escape! Nor shall you leave this threshing floor!
6. Trapped beneath threshing water for two full minutes, hands frozen to the wheel just like mine had been, Chad had "lost his bottle", as they say
7. 1 Then they told David, saying, Note, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing floors
8. 18 And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite
9. sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood
10. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver
11. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite
12. angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of
13. Now Ornan was threshing wheat
14. Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground
15. that which is good in his eyes, lo, I give you the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat
16. 28 At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the
17. 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts,
18. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart
19. because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen
20. Fan: Work of the flesh to imitate a cool breeze of the Spirit; division of the impure and pure; Christ’s fan in one’s hand: purging His threshing floor
21. threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of
22. large as the space of a threshing floor, the size of about four 8 thousand modii; and the letters were of gold; And the angel said to me,
23. And in those days the angels shall return; And hurl themselves to the east on the Parthians and Medes; They shall stir up the kings, so that the spirit of Unrest shall come on them; And they shall rouse them from their thrones, so that they may break out like lions from their lairs; And as hungry wolves among their flocks; And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones; And the land of His elect ones shall be before them, the threshing floor and the highway; But the city of my righteous ones shall be a hindrance to their horses; And they shall begin to fight among themselves, And their right hand shall be strong against themselves; And a man shall not know his brother; Nor a son his father or his mother; Till there is no number of the corpses through their slaughter; And their punishment be not in vain
24. 42 And Joseph went up with a heavy camp, and they did after this manner every day until they reached the land of Canaan, and they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which was on the other side of Jordan, and they mourned an exceeding great and heavy mourning in that place
25. And in those days the angels shall return; And hurl themselves to the east on the Parthians and Medes; They shall stir up the kings so that the spirit of Unrest shall come on them; And they shall rouse them from their thrones so that they may break out like lions from their lairs; And as hungry wolves among their flocks; And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones; And the land of His elect ones shall be before them the threshing floor and the highway; But the city of my righteous ones shall be a hindrance to their horses; And they shall begin to fight among themselves And their right hand shall be strong against themselves; And a man shall not know his brother; Nor a son his father or his mother; Till there is no number of the corpses through their slaughter; And their punishment be not in vain
26. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread
27. 42 And Joseph went up with a heavy camp and they did after this manner every day until they reached the land of Canaan and they came to the threshing floor of Atad which was on the other side of Jordan and they mourned an exceeding great and heavy mourning in that place
28. 30 For the grain of an evil seed has been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning and how much ungodliness has it brought up to this time? And how much shall it yet bring out until the time of threshing come? 31 Ponder now by yourself how great fruit of wickedness the grain of an evil seed has brought out
29. For if he were not receiving them the human race would not be preserved nor any other 7 living creature; But God appointed this bird thereto; And he expanded his wings and I saw on his right wing very large letters as large as the space of a threshing floor the size of about four 8 thousand modii; and the letters were of gold; And the angel said to me Read them; And I read 9 and they ran so: Neither Earth nor Heaven bring me out but wings of fire bring me out; And I said Lord what is this bird and what is his name? And the angel said to me His name is called 11 Phoenix
30. His winnowing fork is in His hand and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor
31. Jed shouted further orders at the scarecrows, which formed a circle around the Threshing Machine
32. Slowly but surely the trailer tilted higher, tipping its black muddy load into the chute of the Threshing Machine
33. The scarecrows obeyed, and as the wheel turned faster, the Threshing Machine pumped black smoke higher into the air
34. Luckily for Bryony, her excited cry was drowned by the grinding racket of the Threshing Machine
35. Guessing Stubby was right, he switched his attention back to the Threshing Machine
36. Katya and Dawes stood next to the Threshing Machine
37. But the scarecrows ignored him, and continued turning the wheel of the Threshing Machine
38. Boglehob’s headless body went tumbling straight down the chute, and was swallowed by the gaping mouth of the Threshing Machine
39. Shreds of clothes and wisps of straw flew out of the Threshing Machine’s chimney, followed by something else: something that glinted as it arced through the air, and clanged when it landed on the ground in front of Bryony
40. Edwin squawked with fear as he saw the mouth of the Threshing Machine looming closer
41. Zach howled loudly, but Edwin couldn’t be sure whether it was a cry of pain or fear as they went tumbling into the mouth of the Threshing Machine…
42. Edwin opened his eyes, and looked up to see Zach was clinging to the scythe that had jammed across the mouth of the Threshing Machine
43. The Threshing Machine was silent, with just a few wisps of black smoke wafting from its funnel shaped chimney
44. ” The Captain walked to the Threshing Machine and prised open a hatch on the side of its barrel shaped body
45. ‘I’ve never seen a garden so threshing with life
46. And his shovel is in his hand thoroughly to cleanse his threshing floor; he will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff will he burn up with the judgment fire
47. Gideon was threshing wheat that they might eat,
48. It was a threshing floor that David bought1 –
49. It was Araunah’s threshing floor that Gad the prophet had told David
50. ” When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah