scything

Cocky George Osborne taunted me two years ago that a Con charity-for-the-rich scam, otherwise called scything inheritance tax, would be a vote winner.

Mirror.co.uk - News 2009

The assured construction of the scenes can become a little routine at times: when a paragraph describing a fight ends with a sword scything towards the head of a favoured character, and the narrative cuts away to deal with other events, it eventually stops being a surprise that, when the narrative returns, the blow is avoided by some unusual means and the fight continues.

California Literary Review 2009

The assured construction of the scenes can become a little routine at times: when a paragraph describing a fight ends with a sword scything towards the head of a favoured character, and the narrative cuts away to deal with other events, it eventually stops being a surprise that, when the narrative returns, the blow is avoided by some unusual means and the fight continues.

California Literary Review 2009

The assured construction of the scenes can become a little routine at times: when a paragraph describing a fight ends with a sword scything towards the head of a favoured character, and the narrative cuts away to deal with other events, it eventually stops being a surprise that, when the narrative returns, the blow is avoided by some unusual means and the fight continues.

California Literary Review 2009

However, KK has gone way over the top in his description of 'scything' JB down; he just tapped his foot so that he would trip up himself!

WordPress.com News 2008

But their night, and in particular McNaughton's, went sour as he was sent off for scything down Hylton a minute after half-time.

West Ham United 1-2 Aldershot | Carling Cup match report 2011

When Messi caught him with a scything challenge just before half time, he rolled and the Camp Nou rocked.

Barcelona 2-2 Real Madrid (4-3 agg) | Copa del Rey match report 2012

Aren't we a modern go-ahead generation, scything through the 21st century?

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

He's at his most brutal wielding the bat horizontally, with a range of shots that are effectively different points on a single massive scything arc, from slashes square of the wicket on the off side through murderous pulls, whips and slogs over the leg side.

Team's Fate is in Their Hands Richard Lord 2011

When he made massive cuts in his first reign, there were 40,000+ people who protested in person, and Campbell just continued scything through jobs.

There is No Harmonization to Campbell’s New Tax « Colleen Anderson 2009