Example Sentences

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The threshing floors shall be full of grain, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Kent, Charles Foster

You will see grain threshed by herds of goats and ponies driven around and around the threshing floors, as men threshed grain before the Bible was written.

From The Blood of the Conquerors by Fergusson, Harvey

Once there was an old woman who lived on the grain she could collect from other people’s threshing floors.

From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Bompas, Cecil Henry

We had a Rugby football that winter, and in a field by the river, another of the wide threshing floors, we began to play when the snow melted.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John

Near here, too, large three-mule loads of dry earth compost were going to the fields and men were busy pulverizing and mixing it on the threshing floors preparatory for use.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)