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  • The thin sliver of a crescent moon hung above me in the darkness like a scythe, and I couldn't ever remember seeing the moon in New York before.†   (source)
  • And he returned to his work scything the long grass.†   (source)
  • The gods defeated their father, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld.†   (source)
  • When he had gone to the shed to return the jeans, he had taken a small hand-scythe from the wall where it hung, and with it he attacked the nettle-patch in the Potter's Field, sending the nettles flying, slashing and gutting them till there was nothing but stinging stubble on the ground.†   (source)
  • I saw it as the Grim Reaper's scythe, swinging toward me.†   (source)
  • The other murderer was Ned Clement, who'd gone for three years under the name Scythe, for the weapon he'd used to torture and hack apart temple priestesses.†   (source)
  • Although they also wore the blue and gold uniform, each wielded the traditional "Vatican long sword"—an eight-foot spear with a razor-sharp scythe-rumored to have decapitated countless Muslims while defending the Christian crusaders in the fifteenth century.†   (source)
  • She heard a shout, saw a shove, and in the blink of an eye the arakhs were out, long razor-sharp blades, half sword and half scythe.†   (source)
  • Hardman came with his son twice a year to scythe the grass around the temple.†   (source)
  • We reached the landing field proper, where the grass had been scythed low.†   (source)
  • This isn't rural Portland yet, but there are signs of the countryside creeping in: plants poking up through half-rotted porches, an owl hooting mournfully in the dark, a black scythe of bats cutting suddenly across the sky.†   (source)
  • He dug potatoes out of the earth with a spade and cut down hay with a scythe.†   (source)
  • He twisted the wheel sharply, the boat skidded round in a wild scything skid beneath the cliff face and dropped to rest lightly on the rocking waves.†   (source)
  • The, bombardment was to all intents and purposes finished, once the jets had sighted their target, alerted their bombardier at five thousand miles an hour; as quick as the whisper of a scythe the war was finished.†   (source)
  • Kit followed him into the swamp and stooped to gather great armfuls of the long grasses that fell behind his scythe.†   (source)
  • Holly rolled to avoid a scything tusk.†   (source)
  • In the field, slaves, mostly men, worked steadily swinging scythes with attached wooden racks that caught the cut wheat in neat piles.†   (source)
  • As Kote watched, he carefully drove a pair of nails through a scythe blade's collar, fixing it firmly onto a curved wooden handle.†   (source)
  • Sarai had studied offworld for two years at the University of New Lyons on Deneb Drei, but she was homesick there: the sunsets were abrupt, the much-vaunted mountains slicing off the sunlight like a ragged scythe, and she longed for the hours-long sunsets of home where Barnard's Star hung on the horizon like a great, tethered, red balloon while the sky congealed to evening.†   (source)
  • She looked at Mack and reached for the scythe.†   (source)
  • In his poem "Mowing" (1913), for instance, the activity of mowing a field with a scythe (which, mercifully, you and I will never have to do) is first and foremost just what it is, a description of sweeping a field clean of standing hay one stroke at a time.†   (source)
  • The same root gave us 'scythe' and 'scissors' and 'schism,' which have obvious connections to the concept of separation.†   (source)
  • Most of them survived the scything blades .†   (source)
  • At any given moment you could spot him in his field, bent at the waist, back as curved as the scythe he swung all day.†   (source)
  • To grow them year after year without dread of flood or plague, in soil that offers up green stems that bend to the scythe again and again, bread from a bottomless basket.†   (source)
  • A sharp wind scythed along Astor Place.†   (source)
  • The scythe gave me away, didn't it?†   (source)
  • It was Death standing before the audience, the scythe poised, Death at the edge of a dark wood.†   (source)
  • Clearing it would take one whole day's hard work with scythe and saw.†   (source)
  • Then he saw the human figures moving into the flower fields, sweeping them with strange scythe-like devices—dew gatherers.†   (source)
  • Thane is missing a scythe and he thinks Albriech took it.†   (source)
  • Where the grass is cut with a scythe, where rooster combs and sunflowers grow in the yards, and pots of bleeding heart, ivy, and mother-in-law tongue line the steps and windowsills.†   (source)
  • As he righted himself, he saw it: a ship with black metal sides, unmarked and almost lightless, its prow a narrow blade scything the water ahead.†   (source)
  • I stare back as Stephen tramples and slashes, hopping deeper and deeper into the tall grasses, swinging his crutch like a scythe.†   (source)
  • But for a moment, I could swear I see the angel's wings fluttering, the hands tightening on the sword, the sword cleaving through the lamb quick as a scythe.†   (source)
  • The grasses had been scythed, and a few flat-topped acacia trees made loose circles of shade.†   (source)
  • Death himself astride a slat-ribbed hack, he is peaked for blood, his scythe held ready as he presses people in haunted swarms toward the entrance of some helltrap, an oddly modern construction that could be a subway tunnel or office corridor.†   (source)
  • The trailer was coming clear of the bridge wall and with nothing now to restrain its sideways drift, it began a slow, relentless jackknife, effortlessly scything down the fence and sending up a cresting bow-wave of snow like an ocean liner.†   (source)
  • Darin's calm is sheared away as if by a scythe, his face blanched with a horror I feel down to my bones.†   (source)
  • Some who had no muskets carried homemade pikes fashioned from scythe blades fixed to the ends of poles.†   (source)
  • Women, returning from the fields, bent forward to pour stalks of wheat out from the baskets they wore on their backs, before returning to harvest another load with scythes.†   (source)
  • The barn had stalls on the main floor for the work horses, tie-ups on the main floor for the cows, a sheepfold down below for the sheep, a pigpen down below for Wilbur, and it was full of all sorts of things that you find in barns: ladders, grindstones, pitch forks, monkey wrenches, scythes, lawn mowers, snow shovels, ax handles, milk pails, water buckets, empty grain sacks, and rusty rat traps.†   (source)
  • There were less of them, now; he had run through them like a mower's scythe.†   (source)
  • What if he's got some kind of scythe or garrote in that garment bag?†   (source)
  • They had been all day scything there—twenty men for twenty acres.†   (source)
  • So the Germans headed for that, using their rifles like scythes to smash a path through the tables, the clockwork toys, the frozen ballerinas.†   (source)
  • They remind me of sharp scythes.†   (source)
  • I saw one young fighter salute his opponent-and five peasants hit him from behind with scythes and hammers.†   (source)
  • It was as if a black-waved, frozen sea had been sliced by a scythe, forming black, solid walls along a jelled path.†   (source)
  • The blue-gleaming blade shore through them like a scythe through grass, and they leaped and writhed and then hung loose.†   (source)
  • Someone's scythed the grasses over the old cart trail.†   (source)
  • They cut into the Tribe of the Elk, felling barbarians like a low-swinging scythe through tall grass.†   (source)
  • The kind that's like a scythe, that can cut you in half.†   (source)
  • I had just given up my scythe to another man, and was helping with the stooking by way of a breather when, without any warning, I was struck...I had never known anything like it.†   (source)
  • In another instance, a massive black stallion lashed to a wooden fence "reared back, pulling the rail out of the fence and dragging it after him full gallop down the road crowded with troops, mowing them down like the scythe of a war chariot."†   (source)
  • He had narrow shoulders, thin arms, and smooth palms that clearly showed he had never hoisted a hay bale, swung a scythe, or plowed a field.†   (source)
  • A big diamondback rattler struck at Papa and Papa chopped his head off with one quick lick of his scythe.†   (source)
  • A whole coconut apiece too, in which my husband nicked a hole with his scythe for me so that I might drink the dear milk.†   (source)
  • There were pitchforks, edgers, a scythe, a wheelbarrow.†   (source)
  • The dog whose leg he'd cut off with the scythe.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Chism went roaring down the wagon track, scything weeds right and left.†   (source)
  • Yesterday cutting the Rainey grass in time for the funeral was considered a project so impossible that even if men could be spared and given scythes, success was never guaranteed.†   (source)
  • The two telkhines shuffled forward and knelt, holding up the scythe on its wrapping cloth.†   (source)
  • "By chopping him to pieces with a scythe," Piper remembered.†   (source)
  • Anderson swung his dimming flashlight beam to the giant scythe that leaned against the back wall.†   (source)
  • The javelin's point slashed toward me like a scythe.†   (source)
  • The smith leaned the scythe up against the wall.†   (source)
  • Baba Ayub dried his tears, picked up his scythe, and tied it around his waist.†   (source)
  • It was a small scythe, its sharp curved blade still caked with green weeds from the last mowing.†   (source)
  • The interference took the form of scything tusks that ducked below Butler's guard.†   (source)
  • We need to keep our eyes open for a silver necklace with a scythe charm.†   (source)
  • The dwarf aimed his scything jaws skywards, punching through the floorboards.†   (source)
  • The telkhines trembled, holding up the scythe.†   (source)
  • In her palm was a silver bracelet with a scythe charm, the mark of Kronos.†   (source)
  • And I had even been prepared to encounter them with my scythe.†   (source)
  • The pain of Kronos's scythe had been nothing compared to this.†   (source)
  • I just knew that if he was about rise, I had to strike him down before he got his scythe.†   (source)
  • But it was too late, I told myself, gripping both the scythe and the torch.†   (source)
  • And I swung the scythe again, catching him easily.†   (source)
  • Kronos smiled, swirling his scythe at normal speed and waiting for me to creep toward my death.†   (source)
  • He'd been shred into a thousand pieces, cut with his own scythe.†   (source)
  • Kronos pointed his scythe at a dracaena with green armor and a green crown.†   (source)
  • But in the meantime ....:' He dismounted, his scythe glistening in the dawn light.†   (source)
  • He struck the bridge with the butt of his scythe, and a wave of pure force blasted me backward.†   (source)
  • Kronos lounged on it, his scythe across his lap.†   (source)
  • Kronos's fingers tapped the blade of his scythe.†   (source)
  • But Kronos himself stood right in front with his scythe in hand.†   (source)
  • I yanked her back as Kronos swung his scythe, slicing the air where she'd been standing.†   (source)
  • Ethan Nakamura stood to one side, trying to stay out of the way of his master's scythe.†   (source)
  • He towered above me on his skeletal horse, his scythe in one hand.†   (source)
  • Kronos swung his scythe and cut a flagpole in half.†   (source)
  • I remembered what a sea demon had once said about Kronos's scythe: Careful, fool.†   (source)
  • His scythe skittered across the pavement.†   (source)
  • Frisk every demigod until we find a scythe charm?†   (source)
  • The hearth fire had grown red-hot, like the scythe wasn't compatible with it.†   (source)
  • One of them held a purple banner with the black scythe design.†   (source)
  • It was the pterodactyl kite and scythe which raised his arms almost to fly the marbled vaults.†   (source)
  • It's as if I were Death himself, scythe at the ready.†   (source)
  • It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water.†   (source)
  • What if that blade should be cut off by a scythe?†   (source)
  • Outside, the cold takes my breath away, cutting through my thin clothes like an icy scythe.†   (source)
  • I would've wielded the scythe myself if I'd had the chance!†   (source)
  • You have wielded a scythe and plow more often than a sword, though you are accustomed to a bow.†   (source)
  • A grinning reaper clutched a scythe with bony fingers.†   (source)
  • While Kronos cut him to pieces with his scythe.†   (source)
  • Eragon traced a line upon his wrist where he had cut himself while sharpening Garrow's scythe.†   (source)
  • If you needed a scythe, you could just forge one.†   (source)
  • He had cut it to pieces with his scythe and buried the remains so that I should not be upset.†   (source)
  • Then Kronos, the head Titan—well, you've probably heard how he chopped up his father Ouranos with a scythe and took over the world.†   (source)
  • Propped against the wall beside the desk stood the fearsome shape of a long scythe, its curved blade as familiar as that of the grim reaper.†   (source)
  • Thousands of years ago, after the big Titan—God war, the gods had sliced him to bits with his own scythe and scattered his remains in Tartarus, which is like the gods' bottomless recycling bin for their enemies.†   (source)
  • It was a scythe-a six-foot-long, blade curved like a crescent moon, with a wooden handle wrapped in leather.†   (source)
  • Everything there was lit in degrees of light and shadow—Claude's shoulders and head, the chaff on his shoes, the saws and hammers hanging from the pegboard, the outscooped curve of Almondine's chest, the contour of her head and ears, the scythe of her tail trailing along the dusty floor.†   (source)
  • Mauls, clubs, a scythe ...He remembered the big man in the shadowskin cloak who had dueled Ser Rodrik with a two-handed greatsword, but when he found his corpse sprawled on the stony ground, the man was not so big after all, the cloak was gone, and Tyrion saw that the blade was badly notched, its cheap steel spotted with rust.†   (source)
  • She handed Mack a shovel, rake, scythe, and pair of gloves and floated out and down a particularly overgrown path that seemed to go in the general direction of the far end of the garden.†   (source)
  • Behind the cabin there were a wood and tool shed with a scythe, rake, hammer, and a big box with saws, planes, and other tools.†   (source)
  • She looked down and beheld the body of Ned Clement, the murderer who'd called himself the Scythe and spent years in the labor camps of Calaculla for his crimes.†   (source)
  • These chambers always incorporate the same symbols—skull and crossed bones, scythe, hourglass, sulfur, salt, blank paper, a candle, et cetera.†   (source)
  • Baba Ayub weakly drew his scythe, but it slipped from his hand and struck the marble floor with a loud clang.†   (source)
  • And Gaea's the one who gives him the scythe, and tells him, 'I fey, why don't I call your dad down here?†   (source)
  • Baba Ayub angrily drew his scythe.†   (source)
  • The medallion depicted a frightening cloaked figure holding a scythe and kneeling beside an hourglass.†   (source)
  • The scythe is actually a symbol of the transformative nourishment of nature—the reaping of nature's gifts.†   (source)
  • Without waking his wife and children, he stowed a few scraps of bread into a burlap sack, put on his shoes, tied his scythe around his waist, and set off.†   (source)
  • And clutching the handle of the scythe I ventured slowly upwards until I stood in the door of the ballroom.†   (source)
  • I struggled to my feet, blinking the stars out of my eyes, but Kronos had already grasped the handle of his scythe.†   (source)
  • All the vampires were gone, except the trickster, who had gathered his scythe from the shadows and also his hand-held mask.†   (source)
  • I glanced back and saw him approaching leisurely, swinging his scythe as if he were enjoying the feel of having it in his hands again.†   (source)
  • Kronos raised his scythe.†   (source)
  • And, though I stood stark still at the stairs with the barrels and the scythe, listening, I heard nothing, nothing of those guards I presumed to be there, nothing of the vampires themselves.†   (source)
  • And I ran after it; the torch and the scythe thrown aside as my arms went up to protect me from the blaze of white light that flooded the stairs to the alley.†   (source)
  • And as the dark thing that was his clothes rushed down, I swung the scythe and saw it strike his neck and felt the weight of his neck and saw him fall sideways, both hands reaching for the appalling wound.†   (source)
  • A dark, draped figure was moving on the stage from tree trunk to tree trunk, so fast that as he stepped into the lights he seemed to appear magically in the center, one arm flashing out from his cloak to show a silver scythe and the other to hold a mask on a slender stick before the invisible face, a mask which showed the gleaming countenance of Death, a painted skull.†   (source)
  • He raised his scythe in a mock salute.†   (source)
  • Kronos himself paced at the top of the plaza, swinging his scythe so his dracaenae bodyguards stayed way back.†   (source)
  • I hadn't thought about that, but it didn't matter if the cursed blade was Riptide or Kronos's scythe.†   (source)
  • Sounds like Kronos's scythe, right?†   (source)
  • He sliced downward with his scythe.†   (source)
  • Kronos's scythe had liquefied into molten metal and was trickling into the coals of the hearth, which now glowed like a blacksmith's furnace.†   (source)
  • He held out his hand and dangled a little silver bracelet with a scythe charm—the Titan lord's symbol.†   (source)
  • Kronos's weapon appeared in his hands—a six-foot-long scythe, half Celestial bronze, half mortal steel.†   (source)
  • At the back of the lead boat, a purple banner emblazoned with a black scythe flapped in the night wind.†   (source)
  • His scythe began to change, until he held Luke's old weapon, Backbiter, with its half-steel, half-Celestial bronze blade.†   (source)
  • He struck the ground with his scythe.†   (source)
  • His scythe flew back to his hands.†   (source)
  • Kronos swung his scythe again.†   (source)
  • I told them what had happened on the Princess Andromeda—how Kronos had known we were coming, how he'd shown me the silver scythe pendant he'd used to communicate with someone at camp.†   (source)
  • Kronos's scythe," I said.†   (source)
  • He raised his scythe.†   (source)
  • He tapped the keyboards and the screens woke up, displaying a Web site in maroon and gold, with a picture of a happy farmer in a toga and a John Deere cap, standing with his bronze scythe in a field of wheat.†   (source)
  • A noise punctuates the silence, a thin bleating growing louder and louder until it is like a scythe of metal slicing the air, slicing into me— Then I wake up.†   (source)
  • "DEATH IS SWEEPING his scythe all around us, cutting down our old friends and brandishing it over us," Adams wrote a year later, in the summer of 1816.†   (source)
  • The Volmarks and Stonetrees had large holdings on the isle and boasted famous captains and fierce warriors of their own, but even the fiercest bent beneath the scythe.†   (source)
  • It would have been faster to scythe the grain, either with steel or magic, but the stubble that remained would be dangerous and uncomfortable to walk over, much less to sleep upon.†   (source)
  • The fat Dothraki put aside his knife to unsheathe a huge curved arakh, the wickedly sharp scythe-sword the horselords loved.†   (source)
  • Some of the sails bore devices from the other islands; the blood moon of Wynch, Lord Goodbrother's banded black warhorn, Harlaw's silver scythe.†   (source)
  • They were all farmers, with strong arms and blocky shoulders, a forward lean to all of them, their fingers curled tight, as though they were still working the hoe or scythe, toting buckets of water or pulling udder teats.†   (source)
  • The sap of his outermost capillaries plays havoc with the earth, for the way the sap exits in lines and curves is the scythe of fate.†   (source)
  • The sight of the scythe blade still upon his workbench vexed me, for I'd asked him to mend it long since, and the timothy now was naught but blown seed head and no longer worth the cutting.†   (source)
  • Only the Lord Harlaw displayed the silver scythe plain upon a night-black field, as it had flown in the dawn of days: Rodrik, called the Reader, Lord of the Ten Towers, Lord of Harlaw, Harlaw of Harlaw ...her favorite uncle.†   (source)
  • They were armed with spears and fire-hardened lances, all but their leader, a fleshy blond man with watery eyes who bore a great curved scythe of sharpened steel.†   (source)
  • His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out.†   (source)
  • Since the scything of this field, Mrs. Hancock had buried her husband, three of her sons, and one daughter-in-law.†   (source)
  • Hanging from the end was a collection of vicious-looking scythe-like bladed hooks that, pulled gently through Enrico's tail, gave it a mesmerizing curl.†   (source)
  • "I know," said Albriech, dropping into a chair, "but instead of looking for his, he starts grousing that he saw someone leaving his field and that it looked a bit like me ....and since no one else looks like me, I must have stolen the scythe."†   (source)
  • The wheat bent toward them like a million scythes.†   (source)
  • His fingernails lengthened into dirty scythes.†   (source)
  • They had tools with them, hoes and spades and scythes.†   (source)
  • DEW GATHERERS: workers who reap dew from the plants of Arrakis, using a scythelike dew reaper.†   (source)
  • A few had swords and knives; others brandished pitchforks and scythes and wooden spears.†   (source)
  • The closest thing had been farmers with sickles and scythes in the fields.†   (source)
  • The long grass had to be scythed and hoed under.†   (source)
  • Her drakon-bone sword scythed down any suitors stupid enough to face her.†   (source)
  • Yoren eyed their scythes and tossed them a few coppers.†   (source)
  • I'm sure the firelight emphasizes the sharp scythes at their edges.†   (source)
  • And the blade, above, in the canvas sky, like a homing hawk scythed down.†   (source)
  • Half our harvest is gone to seed for want of arms to swing the scythes.†   (source)
  • They played baseball in a field of bluegrass they had scythed.†   (source)
  • Even Sigfryd Silverhair showed two scythes counterchanged on a field divided bendwise.†   (source)
  • Some had scythes, some staves, some hoes sharpened to cruel points.†   (source)
  • Then he scythed down a half dozen telkhines.†   (source)
  • She saw staves and scythes, cudgels and clubs, several axes.†   (source)
  • Asha had oft seen him reading on his high seat beneath the silver scythes.†   (source)
  • He saw warhorns and leviathans and scythes, and everywhere the krakens great and golden.†   (source)
  • Either way, as I look at him I have a flashback to last night, to the whistling of the air as the clubs came down like scythes, and I feel a rush of hatred for him—for all of them.†   (source)
  • The four Torc Allta were immediately behind the old woman, curved, scythelike swords in their hands, and three more of the creatures in their boar shape burst through the undergrowth and raced up the branch to assume positions behind Flamel and Scatty.†   (source)
  • The walls were encrusted with hubcaps, spools of wire, license plates, ancient tire irons, hand saws, rakes, hoes, scythes, circular saw blades, and a menagerie of antique iron tools, rusted and strange.†   (source)
  • In gloved hands were clutched all manner of weapons: longswords and lances and sharpened scythes, spiked clubs and daggers and heavy iron mauls.†   (source)
  • Such animals as you have never seen, striped horses, great spotted things with necks as long as stilts, hairy mouse-pigs as big as cows, stinging manticores, tigers that carry their cubs in a pouch, terrible walking lizards with scythes for claws.†   (source)
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