When Malagrida had retired-"Stubborn madman that you are," muttered the Superior, "you are yet a necessary and useful tool in the hands of those who know how to wield you, though alone you are like a Scythed war-chariot, dragged on by wild horses without a guiding hand, carrying havoc and destruction wherever it appears."
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
It was here that in the fighting last month the enemy advanced time after time in close waves, only to be Scythed down by our machine-guns, so that heaps of those field-grey dead lie out there on the barren land.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Also I was realising that for some reason she seemed to think I had done something rather heroic in returning to the place where I had nearly been Scythed and shot, and tackling the unknown enemy single-handed; especially after she happened to discover I had been wounded.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston