grass-cutter

Ex-congressmanDan Rostenkowski, who was released from prison last August after serving 13 months for mail fraud, declining to apologize during a radio interview in Chicago "" Frankly, I thought you were my grass-cutter collecting for the month. ''

Perspectives 2008

"It's not a breeding place, but a place where European bison is a kind of grass-cutter," says Wanda Olech-Piasecka , a researcher at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences who tracks the ancestry of all of the captive European bison — about 1,400, 40 percent of the total number on earth.

Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam 2008

When I pulled in to her agency I saw her seated on a tractor, towing a grass-cutter though a field of buttercups, a little black boy in the seat with her.

Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

When I pulled in to her agency I saw her seated on a tractor, towing a grass-cutter though a field of buttercups, a little black boy in the seat with her.

Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

You're either a better salesman, a better grass-cutter, or you had better customers.

Earned Income Tax Credit Remarks ITY National Archives 1993

His life, he said, had been most miserable, and he would rather be a grass-cutter in the English camp than Ruler of Afghanistan; he concluded by entreating me to allow his tent to be pitched close to mine until he could go to India, to London, or wherever the Viceroy might desire to send him.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

"What'll you be wantin ', laddie?" said the grass-cutter.

William Adolphus Turnpike William Banks

He was already in a badly dismantled condition, and yet Herman and Verman seemed discontented with their work: Verman was swinging the grass-cutter about for a new charge, apparently still wishing to mow him, and Herman had made a quite plausible statement about what he intended to do with the scythe.

Penrod 1914

Just then there came from the opposite direction a grass-cutter named Sotthiya, and he was carrying grass.

The Attainment of Buddhaship. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Introduction to the Jtaka (i. 685). 1909

Verman seemed discontented with their work: Verman was swinging the grass-cutter about for a new charge, apparently still wishing to mow him, and Herman had made a quite plausible statement about what he intended to do with the scythe.

Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907