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Sentences ending with grain

We won't take your grain. [2]
The unreaped corn was scorched and shed its grain. [2]
Venters closed up the opening of the cave with a thatch of willows and aspens, so that not even a bird or a rat could get in to the sacks of grain. [13]
We don't want the grain. [2]
I only said that you were to give them the grain. [2]
It is evident that we are to have a backward season for grain. [5]
And the end of it all, and the heart of it all, was in the last few lines, clear of allegory: "And the wheel goes round in the village mill, And the little brown diver he tells the grain. [11]
I've sat on his head, and he's had his knee in my stomach till I squealed, and we never could meet without back-talking and rasping 'gainst the grain. [11]
The town contained eighteen houses, and heaps of grain. [4]
But we had best leave motives to those whose business and equipment it is to weigh to a grain. [9]

Sentences containing grain two or more times

Every grain of this powder contains the hundredth of a grain of the medicinal substance mingled with the sugar of milk. [3]
In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the grain of powder operated on is carried successively to the billionth, trillionth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, and very often much higher fractional divisions. [3]
Repeat the same process with the same quantity of fresh sugar of milk, and every grain of your powder will contain the millionth of a grain of the medicinal substance. [3]
Therefore the hundredth part of a grain of the vaccine matter, if no more than this is employed, soon increases in quantity, until, in the course of about a week, it is a grain or more, and can be removed in considerable drops. [3]
I found it--washed it out of the stream--picked it out grain by grain, nugget by nugget! [13]

More example sentences with the word grain in them

In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
I am giving you everything, my friends, and I beg you to take everything, all our grain, so that you may not suffer want! [2]
The eleven years' work had cost $55,000, and the first gold found was a grain the size of a pin's head. [5]
Larks flew heavenward with a low sweet song, from amidst the grain growing luxuriantly for the winter harvest, and butterflies hovered above the blossoming fields. [10]
Then; for a while, he had gained a meagre living by sewing up bursted sacks of grain on the piers; when that failed he had found food here and there as chance threw it in his way. [5]
We looked every where, as we passed along, but never saw grain or crystal of Lot's wife. [5]
It depends on what you hear; hammering and knocking--that's bad; but a sound of shifting grain is good and one sometimes hears that, too. [2]
His hands, which were of a rough, coarse grain, were very dirty; his fingernails were crooked, long, and yellow. [12]
And then there was the dairy, with the fawn-coloured cows and calves; and the hillside pastures that ran down to the river, and the farm lands where the stubbled grain was yellowing. [9]
In the bank-safe was half a peck of surface-gold--gold dust, grain gold; rich; pure in fact, and pleasant to sift through one's fingers; and would be pleasanter if it would stick. [5]
The last grain was baked today. [10]
Yet have certain verses of the Scripture, or some wise and verily right noble maxim from the writings of the Greeks or Latins dropped on my soul now and again as it were a grain of good seed. [10]
Your father commissioned us to create peaceful Demeter, the patroness of agriculture, peace, marriage, and Arachne, the mortal who was the most skilful of spinners; for he is both a grain dealer and owner of spinning factories. [10]
When Seth whirls up the sand, and a grain of it flies up his nose, he waxes angry--so it is Paaker's nose, and that only, which is answerable for all your blue bruises. [10]
We had panned up and down the hillsides till they looked plowed like a field; we could have put in a crop of grain, then, but there would have been no way to get it to market. [5]
We did not understand why a country that admits our beef and grain and cheese should seem to seek protection against a literary product which is brought into competition with one of the great British staples, the modern novel. [4]
Albeit I was truly minded at all times to rejoice with those who were rejoicing, all this bravery, at this time, was sorely against the grain of my troubled heart and its forebodings of ill. [10]
Then help yourself to whatever else you need--burros, packs, grain, dried fruits, and meat. [13]
Cows are still to be seen in the pastures, but the grain seems to have been actually swept away; there wasn't a peck in the market. [10]
Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again and begins to stir in our consciousness,--as the dry wheel-animalcule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with a drop of water? [6]
Then a ramble through the town, which is a quaint one, with interesting, crooked streets, and narrow, crooked lanes, with here and there a grain of dust. [5]
The German shared this apartment with agricultural implements, harnesses, and many kinds of grain and vegetables heaped in piles against the walls, but he lacked inclination to cast even a glance at his motley surroundings. [10]
You must not think him an evil-disposed man, but a word that goes against the grain, a look askance will rob him of his senses, and things are done which he repents as soon as they are over. [10]
These "sage-freighters," as they were called, hauled grain and flour and merchandise from Sterling, and Jane laughed suddenly in the midst of her humility at the thought that they were her property, as was one of the three stores for which they freighted goods. [13]
You shall have the roasted bird, but take this grain too; a barley-porridge is the best medicine for Barbara's condition; I've tried it! [10]
A grain of the powder is to be taken, a hundred drops of alcohol are to be poured on it, the vial is to be slowly turned for a few minutes, until the powder is dissolved, and two shakes are to be given to it. [3]
These latter compel the peasant to bring his little trifle of grain to the village, at his own cost. [5]
These water-works, of the most ingenious construction, many of them invented and contrived by scientific engineers, were the weapons with which man had conquered the desert that originally surrounded this lake, forcing it into green fertility and productiveness of grain and fruit. [10]
On the left the ground was more level; there were fields of grain, and the smoking ruins of Semenovsk, which had been burned down, could be seen. [2]
On Saturday came the going to market with grain, or pork, or beef, or fowls frozen like stones; the gossip in the market-place. [11]
The grain of the coral is coarse and porous; the road-bed has the look of being made of coarse white sugar. [5]
We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.--The way of Providence is a little rude. [6]
She also knew that neither her father nor her brother would refuse to help the peasants in need, she only feared to make some mistake in speaking about the distribution of the grain she wished to give. [2]
In a month she will be earning her own living as stenographer for a grain merchant whom Mr. Bentley set on his feet several years ago. [9]
She wondered; then she was just a grain troubled; next a dim suspicion came and went--came again; she watched; a furtive glance told her worlds--and then her heart broke, and she was jealous, and angry, and the tears came and she hated everybody. [5]
If ever you sacrifice the smallest grain of your honesty or your self-respect to Mr. Dryfoos, or anybody else, I will simply renounce you. [8]
I know a ring of gold from a grain of barley as well as a goldsmith; and nothing is there to be had which fishing doth hinder, but further us to obtain. [4]
Every flatboatman who returned to Kentucky was full of tales of the marvellous beauty of the quadroons and octoroons, stories which I had taken with a grain of salt; but they had not indeed been greatly overdrawn. [9]
Here we were, Red Ravine left, stump fences and waving fields of grain right. [11]
In reply to our inquiry we were told that they had nothing to eat, for us, and not a grain of feed for the horses. [4]
To me, the others are miners working with the gold-pan--of necessity some of the gold washes over and escapes; whereas, in my fancy, he is quicksilver raiding down a riffle--no grain of the metal stands much chance of eluding him. [5]
I am not only willing to let grain come in free, I am willing to pay the freight on it, and you may send delegates to the Reichsrath if you like. [5]
Rich Herr Baersdorp, one of the four burgomasters, who had the largest grain business in Leyden, had undertaken to purchase considerable quantities of bread-stuffs in the name of the city. [10]
There were fields of ripening yellow grain, of lusty young corn that grew almost as we watched it: the warm winds of evening were heavy with the acrid odours of fecundity. [9]
Here were barrels of malt being unloaded; there, great sacks of grain, bags of dried fruits, bales of home-made cloth, and loads of fine-sawn boards and timber. [11]
Amid the singing of all these men her clear, bell-like tones would have risen like the lark soaring from the grain field, and what a storm of applause would have greeted her from these rough throats! [10]
And yet the odor of a grain of musk will hang round a note or a dress for a lifetime. [6]
Upon a certain occasion, nine years ago, I had said, with strong feeling, 'If ever I see St. Louis again, I will seek out Mr. Brown, the great grain merchant, and ask of him the privilege of shaking him by the hand. [5]
To have so much is to become miserly, to fear lest a grain of the precious store be lost. [9]
Was there in me a grain of doubt of my ability to respond to such a high call? [9]
Of course, the love of the frontier was in the grain of these men. [9]
He did not look particularly emaciated, for many a grain of the doves' food had been secretly added to his scanty ration of meat. [10]
Must every coral-insect leave his sign On each poor grain he lent to build the reef, As Babel's builders stamped their sunburnt clay, Or deem his patient service all in vain? [6]
But he owed it to Bess to make the attempt, and in case they were compelled to turn back he wanted to find that fine store of food and grain intact. [13]
A month after it is no matter, for the grain is ripe then, but now, when it is green, it is sure death to it all. [11]
But I find it impossible, here or anywhere, to let so much as a grain of dust rest on my bright good name. [10]
He sows in hope, in the swelling of the grain he sees the hand of the gods who claim his joyful thanksgiving after the harvest is gathered in. [10]
No man understands himself as an infinitesimal until he has been a drop in that ocean, a grain of sand on that sea-margin, a mote in its sunbeam, or the fog or smoke which stands for it; in plainer phrase, a unit among its millions. [6]
And if you have been told that I am giving you the grain to keep you here--that is not true. [2]
Her great love had bereft her of her senses, for had the least grain of sanity remained to her she might have known that the thing they attempted was impossible of accomplishment. [9]
They cut their grain with a horrid machine that mows down whole fields in a day. [5]
There is no grain of social inequality between us; I, like you, am poor; I, like you, am without position or distinction; you are a struggling artist, I am that, too, in my humbler way. [5]
A drop, a grain of sand, a block of stone are insignificant objects, but millions of them together, forming the sea, the desert or the pyramids, constitute a sublime whole. [10]
He stuck a grain of rice into each--to represent the lingam, I think. [5]
Seventy quarters of grain had also been carted away. [2]
Helena has a good cotton trade; handles from forty to sixty thousand bales annually; she has a large lumber and grain commerce; has a foundry, oil mills, machine shops and wagon factories--in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. [5]
He, as he freely confessed to himself, was of a coarser and humbler grain than Paula, and he was apt to be satirical oftener than was right. [10]
It is a free port, and is the great grain mart of this particular part of the world. [5]
Demeter, in the form of Daphne, appeared, dispensing prosperity, above the swaying golden waves of the ripening grain fields and bestowing peace beside the domestic hearth. [10]
He set out for Petra with his Lucretius in his satchel--I packed it with my own hands into his money-bag--to put in a claim to supply grain to the 'Rock city. [10]
All the country flat as the flattest part of Jersey, rich in grass and grain, cut up by canals, picturesque with windmills and red-tiled roofs, framed with trees in rows. [4]
In fact, very few foreigners except the Emperor of Russia have ever seen a grain of it, or ever will, while they live. [5]
These disagreeable thoughts fell upon her soul like mildew upon growing grain, and after Gombert had helped her into the carriage again she begged him to let her rest in silence for a while. [10]
Clemens still had faith in Jones, and he had lost no grain of faith in the machine. [5]
Here was an exceedingly heavy burden, but Venters was powerful--he could take up a sack of grain and with ease pitch it over a pack-saddle--and he made long distance without resting. [13]
He picks up every little grain of memory he discerns in his way, and so is led aside. [5]
I became his ensign, and at Alfen held out beside him till the last grain of powder was exhausted. [10]
Windmills appear to do all the labor of the people,--raising the water, grinding the grain, sawing the lumber; and they everywhere lift their long arms up to the sky. [4]
All the handsome dishes belonging to the house were bright and shining, free from every grain of dust, so too were the white linen cloths, trimmed with lace. [10]
One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them. [5]
The grain was cut, the prairie no longer waved like a golden sea, but the smoke of the incense of sacrifice still rose in innumerable spirals in the circle of the eye. [11]
Pharaoh's power will crush them as the hoofs of the cattle trample the grain on the threshing-floor. [10]
From bushes, trees, coverts, and fields of grain there came that constant hail of fire, and there fell upon our ranks a doggedness, a quiet anger, which grew into a grisly patience. [11]
But sparrows will carry grain into the barn before you'll try to save your master's property! [10]
This carpet was carried away and the last grain of dust beaten and banged and swept out of it; then brought back and put down again. [5]
Sweet Alice, he came back again, Across the waste of summer sea, What time the fields were full of grain, But not to thee; but not to thee. [11]
So it had been with her soul, only she had flung the ripening grain into the fire and, with blasphemous hand, erected a dam between the fructifying moisture and the dry earth. [10]
Their relations may be seen by this table: lst dilution,--One hundredth of a drop or grain. [3]
It was a bad blow, but there's a grain of good in everything evil. [10]
I take Gal back home, and we sit there all day, and all the nex' day, and a leetla more, and when we have look enough, there is no grain on that hunder' acre farm--only a dry-up prairie, all grey and limp. [11]
He was transported as if by magic to the hour of his return from Pelusium; he saw himself enter Myrtilus's studio and watch his friend scratch something, he did not know what, upon the ribbon which fastened the bunch of golden grain. [10]
A dose of any of these medicines is a minute fraction of a drop, obtained by moistening with them one or more little globules of sugar, of which Hahnemann says it takes about two hundred to weigh a grain. [3]
The rain made anxiety grow as rapidly in the hearts of many citizens, as the young blades of grain in the fields. [10]
On either side and in front of all, raised a little from the ground, were bowls or calabashes containing fruit, grain and dried and pickled meats. [11]
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once. [5]
What further Maitresse Aimable said was proof that if she knew little and spake little, she knew that little well; and if she had gathered meagrely from life, she had at least winnowed out some small handfuls of grain from the straw and chaff. [11]
Come, you must admit there's a grain of justice in the contention against you. [9]
There had been a grain of hope within her, ready to sprout. [9]

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