Sentences with phrase «of scythe»

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

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.

Sasha Dugdale The Singing of the Scythe: Poetry of the First World War MPT (Modern Poetry in Translation).

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.

Although not a PC version of Scythe, Iron Harvest takes place in a similar alternate history, with human soldiers, bears and robots warring.

Morning Players will be selling the French, English, and German versions of Scythe there (retail versions).

I received my copy of scythe in germany last week and i have to say that scythe is the best board game i have played until now!

* Shusterman, Neal: Thunderhead (Simon & Schuster 978 -1-4424-7245-7, $ 18.99, 512pp, hardcover, January 2018) • Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018 • Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781442472471 • Arc of the Scythe # 2

The series I'm most excited about right now has to be Neal Shusterman's Arc of a Scythe series.

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.

Dante does this with an arsenal of scythes, axes, swords and big red - hot fists.

He's also got a terrific combat style, using a pair of scythes to cut his enemies to ribbons, with the option of using additional weaponry picked up over the course of the game.

Death can be equipped with a variety of scythes, hammers, and armblades, as your primary and secondary weapons with other additional armor accessories that not only improve your combat attributes, they change Death's aesthetics.

Not exact matches

The farmers now stood idly «with scythes whet,» vainly «waiting the subsiding of the waters.»

I remember how after lunch, while others returned to work or took a break, he would grab his scythe and bucket, search out a patch of fresh grass, mow it down and head over to the chicken coop.

And, just as with so many other mythos, yours will fall under the scythe of reason and logic as well.

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.

Should be lots of happy folk on here later today — first Arteta now Giroud scythed down.

EVERY time Swansea won the ball back they only had to find 1 good pass and they scythed 50 % off Man Utd out of the equation.

Laporte felt he had no option but to scythe down Theo Walcott at the edge of the box, the French defender booked for his challenge but a relieved man when Baines whipped his free - kick an inch past Ederson's left - hand post.

Lacazette was scythed down in the box in the dying embers of the game but because the match was effectively over, the referee decided that he wouldn't rub more salt into the Palace wounds.

But back to the pages of TRADE - turmeric for health, cooking with seaweed, cultivating mushrooms, fiber in Tajikistan, sourdough recipes, farming with oxen, scything, an embroidery pattern, a crochet sweater, canning jar labels, oh and so much more!

But persuading lunchroom workers and students to accept the new rules isn't half as difficult as protecting the whole federal school lunch program from the scythe of the new Republican majority in Congress.

And lo, Oliver Letwin's scythe swept through the «red tape» of environmental regulations.

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

At the top of the list: those swinging the scythe on other people's jobs, support and services will have to be unimpeachable in their own use of taxpayers» money.

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.

From the beginning, various pests and pathogens plagued hives, and beekeeping was a battle to stay a step or two ahead of the grim reaper's scythe.

One branch of these gliding dino - squirrels led to scythe - clawed raptors, such as the coyote - sized Velociraptor; the other branch led, eventually, to roadrunners (and all other birds).

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.

Many of the images from this movie have passed into horror iconography: an old man standing by the river tolling a bell with a scythe over his shoulder; Grey's dream of being buried alive; the evil doctor suffocating in flour dropped from the mill above.

One was a master - scythe called the «Grim Reaper» that could clear out a crowd of walkers in seconds, while the other was a shotgun / assault combo rifle that could take down just about anything at range.

Crushing a giant crystal statue into shards by working out his attack pattern and swiping at him with your scythe, accompanied by the sound of tinkling glass.

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

Tragedy once again rears its tear - soaked scythe towards all of you hardcore Dynasty Warriors fans out there.

Other super-combo weapons include the «Ultimate Powershout, a deadly concussive horn made of traffic cones; the Ultimate Grim Reaper, a flaming scythe made of a katana sword, a scythe, a gas canister and a mask; and the Massive Bomb, a mini-nuke that obliterates every zombie in your vicinity.»

Just in the opening moments, with Grey's arrival at his strange inn and the sight of an old ferry rider carrying a scythe, the film begins casting a spell through its imagery alone.

A quirky spin on the adventure puzzle genre, you assume the role of an elderly scythe wielding landscaper whose sole job is to clear a path for our intrepid hero by slicing through 50 grass - filled stages.

The question is, why shouldn't a movie about the remorseless scythe of death and chaos make one feel shitty?

While Baker is the lens through which the story is told, Ryder is its scythe - bearing, no - BS conscience, and a late diner scene in particular offers up powerful proof of (no pun intended here) her ability to kill softly.

Despite the variety available, I used the same few items repeatedly, because why would I shoot floppy, ineffective dildos out of a leaf blower at enemies when there's a flaming scythe in my back pocket?

I'm not sure how everything will play out, but if farming gets the same attention as the combat, I'll have no problem grabbing a scythe and cutting down rice instead of baddies.

The manual paddle - shifts aren't very alert so it's best left in auto, which adds to the sensation of effortless scything across a landscape.

Carving roads in the 2016 Nissan GT - R lets us imagine we're at the helm of a high - tech fighter jet, scything through the air with precision thanks to high - tech electronics.

The MTC engineers also took on the not insubstantial task of making the Land Cruiser scythe through the air with a little more grace.

The R - Design models with their sporty suspension offer plenty of driver involvement, the car scything through bends with an almost flippant level of dexterity.

as it scythes through bends, sitting flat and gripping with the kind of vociferousness often seen in politically charged arguments about EV incentives.

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.

Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from New York Times best seller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology.

In a distant future in which humanity has practically conquered death, the population is controlled by Scythes, the only beings capable of causing death — and teens Citra Terranova and Rowan Damisch have just been chosen as Scythe apprentices.