She felt that here, on the rust-red cliff, with that deadly scything sounding in their ears, Ishmael would get the better of her, and she turned through the bracken to where an overgrown track led to what had once been a series of tiny gardens set on the cliff and walled in with thick elder.
"Secret Bread"
F. Tennyson Jesse
There, to my horror, were three men scything the rushes along a ditch which passed a few feet from me.
"'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany"
Gerald Featherstone Knight
Women, when they are no longer warm, are colder than the deadliest catarrh wind scything across these islands.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith