Companions, the creator seeketh, and such as know how to whet their
sickles. Destroyers, will they be called, and despisers of good and evil.
There are scant crops and few beeves in the borderland, where a man must reap his grain with
sickle in one fist and brown bill in the other.
I was sadly put to it for a scythe or
sickle to cut it down, and all I could do was to make one, as well as I could, out of one of the broadswords, or cutlasses, which I saved among the arms out of the ship.
Then they rushed on and met those of the Slayers who stood before them, and the men of Dingaan were swept away and scattered by Groan-Maker and the Watcher, as dust is swept of a wind, as grass is swept by a
sickle.
The evening sky that had been so clear was clouded with smoke, through which, high up, the
sickle of the new moon shone strangely.
Its curve was something like the curve of a
sickle, but deeper.
There was nothing in the way of fighting that Kala Nag, the old wise Black Snake, did not know, for he had stood up more than once in his time to the charge of the wounded tiger, and, curling up his soft trunk to be out of harm's way, had knocked the springing brute sideways in mid-air with a quick
sickle cut of his head, that he had invented all by himself; had knocked him over, and kneeled upon him with his huge knees till the life went out with a gasp and a howl, and there was only a fluffy striped thing on the ground for Kala Nag to pull by the tail.
??Aries Conlon Capital has announced that Morgan
Sickles has joined the firm in the position of Senior Vice President of Originations and Business Development, the company said.
Cells with abnormal hemoglobin are shaped like sickles used to cut wheat, the characteristic that gives the disease its name.
Researchers have already tested the gene-editing tool on human sickle cells in the lab and are now working on getting the technique to clinical trials.
Sickles Market is known for its top-quality products and superior service.
ON MARCH 22 AND THE STAFF AT SICKLES MARKET IN LITTLE SILVER, N.J.
"The owner mostly sells his cheeses in farmers markets, but because we hooked up with him a while back he's almost like a buddy, and we buy most of what he has," says Bob Sickles, owner of the combination gourmet grocery store and garden center that bears his family name.
Scientists have long speculated about the uses of stone-bladed sickles found at prehistoric sites in the Middle East.
The overall pattern suggests most blades were attached to curved sickles, she notes.
