The scythe was dull an' the young feller bore on harder'n wuz reely decent fer a long time. Rat begun t' git very sober lookin'. '"Ain't ye 'bout done," said he. '"Putty nigh," said the young feller bearin' down a leetle harder all the time. 'Rat made the stun go faster. putty soon he asked agin, "Ain't ye done yit?"
'"putty nigh!" says the other feeling o' the edge. '"I'm done," said Rat, an' he let go o' the handle. "I dunno 'bout the scythe but I'm a good deal sharper'n I wuz."
'"You're the hired man here ain't ye?" said the young feller.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
The American pioneers had only a sickle or a scythe with which to cut their grain. The addition to the scythe of wooden fingers, against which the grain might lie until the end of the swing, was a natural step, and seems to have been taken quite independently in several places, perhaps as early as 1803. Grain cradles are still used in hilly regions and in those parts of the country where little grain is grown.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
Slowly and sadly he went to bed, but he could not sleep, for wondering how the scythes were to be made. All the skill and cunning he had shown before was of no use to him now, and after thinking about the scythes for many hours, there seemed only one way open to him. So, listening to make sure that all was still, he stole away to his parents, and told them the whole story. When they had heard everything, they hid him where no one could find him.英文原著 · 《The Crimson Fairy Book》
They slashed in pieces those who fell. One was noticed who had a large, glittering scythe, and who, for a long time, mowed the legs of the horses. He was frightful. He was singing a ditty, with a nasal intonation, he swung and drew back his scythe incessantly. At every blow he traced around him a great circle of severed limbs. He advanced thus into the very thickest of the cavalry, with the tranquil slowness, the lolling of the head and the regular breathing of a harvester attacking a field of wheat. It was Chopin Trouillefou. A shot from an arquebus laid him low.英文原著 · 《The Hunchback of Notre Dame》
His scythe. The reading of the 1st and other early eds.; "the scythe" in more recent ones.英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
"Now his Majesty came upon a quantity of peasants who were mowing rye; they had formed themselves into two rows, were wiping their scythes, and so let his Majesty drive through them.英文原著 · 《Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussia》
I'm not asking you to wield a scythe, but, I mean, who has an under-butler these days?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
She might as well be wearing a black cloak and carrying a scythe. -That's silly!美剧 · 《Shameless》