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Definition of Reapers
1. reaper [n] - See also: reaper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reapers
Literary usage of Reapers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"Lest it wake the toil-worn reapers : The crickets, chattering 'mong the barley,
Cannot rouse the peaceful sleepers; The noisy song Of their merry throng Can ..."
2. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"To this day Devonshire reapers utter cries of the same sort, and perform on the
field a ceremony exactly analogous to that in which, if I am not mistaken, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE reapers. ARGUMENT. Milo and Battus, two reapers, hare a conference as they
are at work; Battus not reaping so fast 45. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1848)
"ALREADY white for harvest The fields before us lie, And who are they, the reapers,
The sickle keen to ply? They 're not alone the heralds That labor in the ..."
5. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1899)
"Let both grow together until the harvest : and in the time of the harvest I will
say to the reapers, Gather ?e "*£*" first the tares, and bind them in ..."
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