" "I know something of some farmers," said I, "and a sure scythe will mow them down some day.
Charles Martin of Amelia Courthouse told the Virginia Lottery he got home from work on a recent evening and began to mow the lawn but had his efforts stopped short when it began to rain.
Like paying someone else to clean the house, mow the lawn, or deliver the groceries.
" "I know something of some farmers," said I, "and a sure scythe will mow them down some day.
As you sow you shall mow.
I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car-and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
You know, the kind that helps with the last bag of groceries, or brings over misplaced mail, or offers to mow your lawn.
As you sow you shall mow.
'My inclination was to go mow the grass.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980 The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.
►mow down ,, We have to mow down the long grass regularly.
I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car-and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
Once she said to him, "Go and mow my meadow, and dry the grass," and gave him a scythe of silver, and a whetstone of gold, but bade him deliver them up again carefully.