thrasher's

For the plains of wheat need reaping, and the thrasher's at the door.

England over Seas Lloyd Roberts

"Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it up, pull it up, pull it up" (Thoreau), they look to the dogwood flowers to confirm the thrasher's advice before taking it.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Years pass without my finding a brown thrasher's nest; it is not a nest you are likely to stumble upon in your walk; it is hidden as a miser hides his gold, and watched as jealously.

Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

The thrasher's nest I found thirty or forty rods from the point where the male was wont to indulge in his brilliant recitative.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

The thrasher's nest I found was thirty or forty rods from the point where the male was wont to indulge in his brilliant recitative.

Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

As for the thrasher's smile-provoking gutturals, I recall that even in the symphonies of the greatest of masters there are here and there quaint bassoon phrases, which have, and doubtless were intended to have, a somewhat whimsical effect; and remembering this, I am ready to own that

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

"Death Magnetic" maintains a thrasher's pace from start to finish.

The Daily Campus 2008

The cat bird's eggs is sorter blue -- an 'the wood-pecker's is white, like his wing, an' the thrasher's is mottled like his breast. "

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

But the red berries on yonder tall tree seem as if they would still remind us of brighter things; and the stroke of the thrasher's flail awakes the thought how much of nourishment and life lie buried in the sickled ear. "

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

Walking homeward I heard the robin's scream now and again; but the thrasher's was the last _song_, as it deserved to be. "

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877