The mowing machine and the reaper were making their appearance in Great Britain and the United States, but they had not yet reached Upper Canada.
"History of Farming in Ontario"
C. C. James
So, especially, it was a real, ordinary mower that chanced to whet his scythe; yet the apparition of the Old reaper in person could not cause the chilling consternation produced by this trivial circumstance coming as it does as the climax of a succession of commonplace happenings exaggerated and distorted by a fear-haunted imagination.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Death is the rude reaper, who cruelly cuts off life and all the joy of life.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black