reapers

• And when he was five years old, with ruddy cheeks and soft hair, he was beautiful as an angel of God Now one day, in the hot harvest weather, the little fellow ran away from the house down to the field where his father and the reapers were at work; and he ran to and fro in the hot morning sun, sometimes chasing the bright butterflies, sometimes following the men as they cut down the grain with their sharp sickles But after a while he came to his father, calling, "O my head, my head!" —  Children of the Old Testament
• In some cases the harvest and the reaping point to the end of the world and the awards of the judgment; expressly in the Lord's own interpretation of the parable of the tares, it is said, "The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels" (Matt. —  The Parables of Our Lord
• In some fields the reapers were at work, and the harvest was going on with true French gaiety. —  Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
• So I ran and got her and she cast such a cool shadow that the reapers were at once able to go back to work. —  The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales
• The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels of God. —  Mother Stories from the New Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that Mothers can tell their Children

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