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George Kabel, 8y-year-old farmer, estimated that he had threshed enough wheat in his lifetime to make 118,-320,000 loaves of bread.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Oh, was it all to begin over again after the days and nights when he had threshed it out alone in desperation of mind?

From One Man in His Time by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Then the mistress plucked up courage and went out and said that she thought he needn't be too high and mighty to thresh; better folks than he had threshed before now.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

He was wont to approach every subject by the preliminary statement that he had "threshed it out."

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary