| 1. | "Go, Tit, thresh a bit" said the wag. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. - from The King James Bible |
| 3. | Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. - from The King James Bible |
| 4. | For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. - from The King James Bible |