Sentences with phrase «like scythes»

Other trails take you to scenic ridges, through forests of twisting koa trees, and up to one of Bogue's favorite spots: the Alakai Swamp, where rare native birds like the scythe - beaked Hawaiian honeycreeper flit around above shallow bogs.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann; Alfred A. Knopf, $ 30 In a poignant reconstruction of paradise lost, Mann marshals compelling evidence that the «New World» was an advanced, thriving, and crowded place before Columbus and his disease - bearing ilk swept through it like a scythe.

It looks much more like a scythe — with curves.

Not exact matches

While armchair managing is all fun and good... Why on earth would you want us to play a new system for a game this big!?!? I get fans fondness for the 4 -4-2 while seeing the very entertaining football teams like Leicester and Atletico play with scything counter attacks... But this is Arsenal playing Chelsea at home after they've had a couple of disappointing results.

To compound the problem, antibiotics don't just kill bad bugs — like a huge scythe, they also cut down innocent bystanders.

Like Kevin Smith's blistering Red State, this film scythes through the mindless degradation of the American media.Frank (Murray)...

Car enthusiasts wishing they could scythe through the snow this Christmas like Stig Blomqvist in an Audi quattro may appreciate having their dreams fuelled by this beautifully detailed 1:43 scale model of the Eighties original in its road - going form.

Scythe is a 4X game — which means it wants you to explore, expand, extort and exterminate — set within a unique world that mixes agricultural farming with towering mechs that look like they were built by a welder with too much time on his hands.

So, say you have a pair of possessed scythes that you feed a pair of other lower level scythes, if the low level scythes have an ability like increase in critical hit rates, then when the weapon levels up the player will have the choice of being able to add that stat to the weapon to increase its powers.

Death's primary weapon is always a set of scythes, but you can equip different secondary weapons, like huge hammers, maces, and axes or smaller arm blades that deal fast damage.

One of the major gripes with Ninja Gaiden 3 was the exclusion of iconic weapons that have long become inextricably linked with the character of Ryu; The Staff, Scythe and Wolverine - like claws all return this time around, but feel strangely underpowered compared to their previous incarnations.

He's capable of fending off comparable demonic foes like Nightmare thanks to his mastery over several scythes, hammers and gauntlets.

Using a revolver or shotgun will give a typical twin - stick shooter experience but weapons like the bastard sword and scythe completely change the feel of the fight.

Specter Knight is a very cool character to play as and it has hard to not feel like a badass wielding his scythe while looking stylish in a cloak.

I found myself frequently shooting a foe from a short distance in order to stun them and then taking them down in a few short slashes of my scythe - like sword, which seemed to be a very successful strategy.

Arthur's standard weapon is a throwing lance, though you can pick up other weapons like the throwing knife, the torch, the crossbow, the throwing axe, the scythe and the tri-blade.

What we do know is that it takes place in a Gothic Victorian styled city named Yharnam; nasty, deadly creatures lurk in the dark; and it appears that it's up to us to fight and kill them all, with shotgun in one hand and a scythe that flips open like a Motorola Razr in the other.

Considering that the scythe, a traditional agricultural tool, is now commonly associated with death and impending doom, like the life - threatening implications of unrelenting warming and considering today's levels of warming have not been seen on Earth since the advent of agriculture, it is a fitting description.

Just to drive home the point, you could put a little arrowhead at the end of the scythe blade, just to press home the point that a graph shaped like this is unlikely to head off in a different direction the moment we hit 2100.

The horse goes down and Arnold dispatches Anthony with a scythe - like weapon, to the cheers of the climate alarmists.

Hell Hornets appear as giant wasp / hornet - like creatures with large, stinger - bearing abdomens, a pair of scythe - like arms, and eight wings.

Like the ragged reaper, it is a scarecrow with a scythe propped on one shoulder.

The thresher shark is a beautiful animal, with a long, sleek body; rows upon rows of squid - lacerating teeth; and a distinctive, scythe - like tail.