Matteson's invention: 1888

Usage examples of harvester.

I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.

The Destroyer had already altered its trajectory toward populated regions of the forest ring, but Den Soa broadcast the modulated graviton recordings while they were still decelerating, and the giant harvester responded with an indecipherable gravitonic rumble of its own and dutifully changed course toward a remote and unpopulated section of the ring.

But with no harvester submersible within a thousand klicks, the beautiful beastie would be torn to shreds and devoured by the parasites in the flashlight kelp colonies, by salt sharks, by free-floating tube worms, and by other kraken long before a company harvester could get near it.

By standing on the nonconductive gum mats, the people could tempt down the energy-packed atmospheric harvesters, hold them down, and steal all they had.

The cars are the beater first cars kids drive in high school: Gremlins and Pacers, Mavericks and Hornets, Pintos, International Harvester pickup trucks, lowered Camaros and Dusters and Impalas.

I gave him my sword, Harvester of Blood, you see, and he cut it up, reforged it into twenty-odd horse bits.

That day, in front of the McCormick Harvester Works, where strikers and sympathizers fought scabs, the police fired into a crowd of strikers running from the scene, wounded many of them, and killed four.

Reminded they were stone, he flipped Harvester and slashed with the back of the blade, for a cubit-long edge below the hook was unsharpened and double thick for strength.

He had forgotten whether that made the two of them compatible or incompatible, but since she had been run over by a combine harvester on their fifth anniversary they really had not had much opportunity to discover whether or not they were compatible in the long run.

It was true that her primary mandate was to aug ment the doctors and surgeons who cared for Republic troops, using her skills as a healer, but she was also sup posed to keep an eye on the harvesters, to make sure that the bota was being packed and shipped to offworld Republic ports as it was supposed to be.

Some, however, were civilians: supply and materiel supervisors, bota harvesters, and various hired laborers.

Imagine how many of your kin would still be here today if we could have sent the branchers against the harvester.

The rules did not allow Bridgers to invade Harvesters caste by taking food from the slow-girules, however, and Beedie flushed.

So she spent the afternoon with a cart, hauling Aunt Sixs bedding and pots and bits and pieces from the pleasant rooms in Bridgers House to some equally pleasant ones on the far edge of Topbridge, about mid-chasm, from which the latticed windows looked out toward Harvesters bridge, a lumpy line against the bend of the chasm wall behind it.

Most of them casteless ones, but there were Bridgers among them, and Fishers, and a knot of belligerent-looking Harvesters.