As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. Christian Nestell Bovee
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. Clyde Tombaugh
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. Clyde Tombaugh
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. Fanny Kemble
