| 单词 | grain |
| 例句 | Out in the Midwest the railroads were intact and carried the farmers’ grain and stock to market; trade was good, and prices high. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Although cedar does not expand or swell across the grain of the wood when wet, and thus tends not to warp, it does expand slightly along the grain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This night he did not dump the can of grain to the chickens so that they had to leap over each other and struggle to get it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The new law added more fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy to roughly forty-three million meals served daily. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was dragged to the side of the road, hoisted like a sack of grain over a low hedge, and flung on my back in the grass. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Then with the dying hum of the furiously whirling drums, I heard the grains sifting lazily in the sudden stillness, sliding sand-like down the chute into the pot underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will be cooler in here when the sun is up, Lupita. We can see outside, and we don’t have to worry that anyone will fill it with flour or grain.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Ma and Ba wor\\ so hard for every grain of rice, Ba shouldn’t have to feed the goldfish too. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z To induce cream to whip, add a grain of salt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There, among more grain silos and a just-passed threat of a tornado, she twisted her ankle and tumbled onto the road, bloodying her palms and knees. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It originated from a point right behind her forehead no larger than a grain of sand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Not a grain of gold, not a scrap will I bring that Evil One, let him beat me all he likes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z His own handmills were there, and twelve maids had the job of grinding out whole grain and barley meal, the pith of men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The cooks used to serve us rice gruel, but now there are only enough grains in the pot to make soup. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My lord, you rule wide country, rolling and rich with clover, galingale and all the grains: red wheat and hoary barley. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom, picking out bits of grain from roll: You’re alive because of Dr. Parker. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z They had already started gathering, and half a grain sack of mistletoe was still hanging against the side of the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was able to show fair patience for the first day or so of waiting for the grains of gold to accumulate in Ibni’s next wineskin. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “This one had fish for supper. Mushrooms, grain, and just a bit of leaf. Now that’s flavorful, you must admit, Shed.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Over the next eighteen months, this indefatigable machine would produce two thousandths of a gram of plutonium, a quantity about the size of a grain of salt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There wasn’t even a single grain of rice in any of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I avow, Serjeant, we shall commit ourselves wholly to philosophy without a grain of intelligence intermixed.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She hugged the grain bag and considered telling a story to pass the time until she felt sleepy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside me, little yellow-white sand grains cling to the wheel of Jason’s wheelchair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The target was little more than a blur of color, so far back that its bull’s-eye was a grain of sand in the vastness of the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Genealogists are worked to death winnowing the debris of ancestry for grains of greatness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A cart loaded with grain rumbled down the center of the road, and I jumped aside to avoid being struck by it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I crossed the Wabash tracks past the grain elevator on my way to Veech’s garage, eating the dust of the trucks hauling in the beans. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She clucked back to them and fed them grain. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z Nhamo hugged the grain bag and listened to sounds in the night. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, there had been a small crop of grain because of the summer’s drought. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I have a second plate of hot grain smothered in beef stew. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The people were worried when they saw the next morning how much of the grain had been eaten by these greedy birds. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It would be many months before the rice was harvested and the poor allowed to glean the fallen grain from the bare fields. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But now, seeing how outnumbered officers were and feeling more like prey than predator, I found in the tale a grain of comfort. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Baskets of figs and pistachios and coarse yellow grains are displayed under their awnings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Teeth formed in the grain of Christ and soft, unleavened nails scratched against the fingers of Father Pinckney. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, I walk my finger back to my spot on the mat and begin to eat each grain of the sugar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They entered the bins, took off their harness-sacks, filled the sacks with grain, put them on again, and left through the tunnel, out the back door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z All the grain spilled out of the bag and fell on the muddy ground. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A few moments later, the winds calmed, and the grains of sand fell back to the earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She picked up the salt shaker and scattered a few grains into the open eggshell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I had been thrown over Rufus’s horse like a grain sack, head and feet hanging, blood dripping from my mouth onto the familiar boot that let me know it was Rufus I rode with. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A handful of sand contains about 10,000 grains, more than the number of stars we can see with the naked eye on a clear night. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw his forehead and then I saw the rim and then I felt the pebble grain against my fingertips as I slammed the ball with everything I had. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z With the coming of the railroads and the grain elevator, the sacks suddenly became a problem. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sackett told her to go into the city, complain about the loss of her grain, and demand a hearing with General Sir William Howe, commander of British forces. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Brother Quang forces a swallow before explaining we are used to fresh-killed chicken that roamed the yard snacking on grains and worms. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And Cuckoo answered at once, “Ah, and that was Liu, the grain dealer. Ah, he was a good man! He left silver in my palm whenever he saw me.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And grains of rice, dropping from his hair, bouncing off the glass with a tink. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It also paid some farmers not to grow grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Instead we drink milk from Prim's goat, Lady, and eat the rough bread made from the tessera grain, although no one has much appetite anyway. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At that height, the cars were like little beetles crawling along the streets, and people walking on the pavements looked no larger than tiny grains of soot. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Of course you have burned a man’s property—barn, farm implements, hay, and grain; you have polluted his well with coal oil and terrified his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z On the thirty-second day, the last of the grain and fodder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I add the water to the pot of rice and push the heel of my hand against the rough grains. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Claudine's limbs whiten like rice grains, and her hair explodes out from the braid I put in, hitting the floor in one cascading wave. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Humans evolved to eat meat from wild animals, animals that ate little or no grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In the barn they scavenged a few handfuls of some grain he did not recognize out of the dusty floor of a metal hopper and stood eating it dust and all. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z To grow from a tiny cluster of grains to a baby planet some hundreds of miles across is thought to have taken only a few tens of thousands of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He focused on his own favorite, the man called Miller, who was in charge of grain production each fall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Wang Lung was pleased at her strength, although he cared nothing for festivities on this year, and he sent Cuckoo in to beseech Liu, the grain merchant, seeing how sad the case was. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The pond had broken panes of ice on the edges, enough to annoy the geese, and from the Small Barn you could hear Quintus Sertorius at his grain, snorting in his bin. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He guided me to a booth with grain sacks piled against it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I took a pumpkin and a few grains of rice to my Goddess, and I wept at her feet. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was stymied when she tried to recall the urgency of that moment, the grain of the feeling that possessed her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His image is in black and white, and the grain is nearly broken. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z They range from grains of dust to irregular blocks the size of Nicaragua or Bhutan. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Erosion on Earth slowly wipes out information, but because they are gradual—the patter of a raindrop, the sting of a sand grain—those processes can be missed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured out his beer and sprinkled a few grains of salt on the back of his hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The first time he woke, he heard Templeton gnawing a hole in the grain bin. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Setting the firing grains in the pan...until it was all set. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Jus’ milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an’ go to her.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A familiar look—the one he gives me if I wake from a nightmare or we run out of grain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “If you take grain first...wait...if you take wolf...” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z She handed Pinmei her plain bowl, the cooked grains shining like a mound of pearls against the dark pottery. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “If I eat all the grain, I’ll have to fill the bag with grass,” she told Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Each fission would release just enough energy to move a grain of sand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I tear off three little pieces of paper and draw the chicken on the first, the grain on the second, and the wolf on the third. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Wheat grains are small and numerous, so some of them inevitably fell on the way to the campsite and were lost. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Con saw her fingers tremble as she fumbled with the coarse white grains. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z How he would hold them when he was cutting, and even how he would whisper to himself, "Against the grain," or "Go with the grain." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z They had “stolen” much more, and Jiichan separated the grain from the straw. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Once the grain was shocked and standing, there was always the fear of fire. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She cleaned the Trask house from the top clear down into the grain of the wooden floors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ripe grain went unharvested; unpicked orchard fruits were left in trees to rot as communities fled from the invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “I saw him steal seed grain,” another testified. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked over the farm buildings and across at the round hills, rich and yellow with grain. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Egyptian farmers raised a wide variety of fruits and vegetables—harvesting rich vineyards, tending extensive orchards, and producing record amounts of grain for domestic use and for export. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She kept the keys to the cupboard knotted in her sari, all but counting the grains of rice. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It fell through her fingers, leaving a zigzagging trail, causing a monkey to leap down from a tree and devour the little white grains. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Nathan looked up from the grain he was measuring into the gunny bag for storing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z That conclusion is clearest for the eastern United States, where less than a dozen crops were domesticated, including small-seeded grains but no large-seeded grains, pulses, fiber crops, or cultivated fruit or nut trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I had to send out the grain teams short two buckers. Won’t do any good to go out now till after dinner.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And he gave them to Milo, who immediately began transporting one grain at a time. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Meereen’s storehouses held ample supplies of grain, oil, olives, dried fruit, and salted meat, but the stores were dwindling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Children overall were eating more whole grains and produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I could try putting some wood grain in there with the streets. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In any case, Euergetes acted decisively, defeating the dissidents and importing vast amounts of grain to feed the people. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The scattered grains can be thought of as a galaxy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Karpoi grain spirits—those horrible little piranha Cupids—were rushing through the tall grass abducting campers at random, pulling them away from the line. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was, he knew, motoring against the grain of boats drifting down the bank. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z No one eats teosinte, because it produces too little grain to be worth harvesting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical—a heated liquid turning into something that looked like dark grains of sand. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Since Mama said her floor was clean enough to eat off, she made us put the grains in a bag to save them, while she boiled fresh rice and reheated okra and tomato soup. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z For centuries men had dived down and torn the oysters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The grain I ground for chapatis had bits of chaff that got between our teeth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The dead men were carried to one of the storerooms along the baSe of the Wall, a dark cold cell chiseled from the ice and used to keep meat and grain and sometimes even beer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The “feast” presented to Caesar and his troops consisted of spoiled grain served on chipped pottery. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The cellar door was outlined with daylight, and it illuminated, dimly, bushels of potatoes and apples, sacks of flour and grain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His thoughts had turned to the smooth wood, though he couldn’t see the golden maple with its curly grain. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Were there signs for each of the stars, and grains of sand on the beach? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I help cook the grains in the big pot over our communal cook fire, and I watch as the mealworms float to the top. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Immediately, their faces and bodies were covered with hundreds of white scars—all shaped like the grains of rice that had rained upon them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They faced the morning sun and began their pujas, reciting their prayers and making their offerings of flowers or grain. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z We sat around a fire built with dry cow chips and told stories while shaking out grain from ears of corn. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Just about the only business left standing in Churdan is the grain elevator, the tall structure where corn is stored before it is shipped elsewhere. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I helped them as they helped me and thus passed the weeks while my grain dried, standing in proud shocks in the field. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Dad was going to plow the abandoned fields, sow seeds, and reap the grain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I had decided to plant corn as my grain rather than wheat, oats or barley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The canister flew across the room and hit a cabinet, spraying rice grains all over Mama’s clean floor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They had very good fields there, and each year they harvested so much grain that their grain bins were full to overflowing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I bring a bowl of wormy grains to Reverend Hunt in his tent. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maize, though, was what people wanted, the grain of choice for the elite—it was what you made chicha from. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could now give demonstrations at the state agricultural college on cutting and threshing grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She is comforted by the order of the round loaves, the texture of grain and powdered sugar, the sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The grain was slow coming up in the Salinas Valley, and the wild- flowers came so late that some people thought they wouldn’t come at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Twisting Twisting Mother measures rice grains left in the bin. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Just enough, Meitner and Frisch calculated, to make a grain of sand jump. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If the brain were this plate, he said, we’re using this grain of rice. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Perhaps there are smaller forms in every rock and sand grain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As Shin watched his mother cook, he guessed she must have stolen the rice, a few grains at a time, from the farm where she worked and secreted it away in her house. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I had to escape the maze to recover it, but I couldn’t find the way out, and Dad was pursuing me, sealing the exits with sacks of grain stacked into barricades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I could see tiny grains of it drifting in the air. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To distract her, Mariam arranged grains of rice on the floor, in the shape of a house or a rooster or a star, and let Aziza scatter them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The grains dissolved easily in the hot tea, but they clouded the wine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He looked in the kitchen, scrubbed to the wood grain by Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In his other front paw Nanabozho found another little grain, and one grain of dirt in each of his hind paws. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z As he walked, the grains of rice made a crunching noise under his feet. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z On a regular farm there may be cows, pigs, and chickens; fields of grain; orchards filled with fruit—many different kinds of foods to eat or sell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If prices were too high, the government sold some of the grain from its storehouses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The line of phosphorescence bulged about the sand grains and little pebbles; it held them each in a dimple of tension, then suddenly accepted them with an inaudible syllable and moved on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the Stepstones they had taken on grain and game and fresh water, after the long voyage along the bleak and barren coast of Dome with its shoals and whirlpools. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I finish rinsing the rice until the tiny grains are sitting in a pool of cold clear water. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z All the little grains felt itchy and terrible, and I bulged in strange places, though it wasn’t so bad with my big coat on. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z "If you give me some grain,” he said to his friend, "then I shall be able to plant it in a small field that I have.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Still, several generations of tenant farmers had grown corn and other grains there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She watches me and makes sure I eat every last grain of rice, every last crumb of bread, every piece of gristle on the meat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z None of this, of course, was supported by so much as a grain of actual evidence–nothing so wrong could be–yet it was geological orthodoxy for the next half century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And now Nestor, strewing the barley grains, and water drops, pronounced his invocation to Athena and burned a pinch of bristles from the victim. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning she returned to her platform alone and spent the day in bed with her arms around the grain sack. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the sacred threshing-floor, when they are winnowing, she herself, Demeter of the corn-ripe yellow hair, divides the grain and the chaff in the rush of the wind, and the heap of chaff grows white.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z People can and do eat their grain; in the Middle East, for example, the wild barley harvest from a small piece of land can feed a family. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I don't recognize the grain, our own tessera ration cooks down to an unattractive brown mush. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They showed knots and whorls, and wavy tracks of grain ran down their entire length. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In a few weeks’ time, my neighbors will come to help thresh my grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This was when the syrup was taken off the fire to cool so that it formed into crystals—grains of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She stood in a large wooden bin; starting at her feet and rising in a slope to the wall of the cave was a small mountain of grain. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As a result, hunter-gatherers could move up a mountainside harvesting grain seeds as they matured, instead of being overwhelmed by a concentrated harvest season at a single altitude, where all grains matured simultaneously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the paramecium bursaria runs out of food, all he needs to do is stay in the sun and his green endosymbionts will keep him supplied as though he were a grain. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This logician would be unbearably pedantic, but there is a grain of good taste in the pedantry. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So I figured Roger was going to run me over with a farm tractor or combine or grain truck or runaway pig. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z With Westerberg in stir, there was no work at the grain elevator for McCandless, so on October 23, sooner than he might have under different circumstances, the boy left town and resumed a nomadic existence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The General Assembly had made it illegal to distill whiskey because it was made from grain, and grain was needed for food. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In a temperate zone it’s the most natural thing in the world, right as rain, to grow fields of waving grain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen—all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes down on the table, my eyes tracing the pattern of the faux wood grains printed on the laminate. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His ratty home under the pig trough was too chilly, so he fixed himself a cozy nest in the barn behind the grain bins. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The air is damp with dinner—leftover turkey, stinky Brussels sprouts, salad, whole grain rolls and cheesy potatoes, Emma’s favorite. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z For the plant the change is highly disadvantageous, but it facilitates harvest by humans—the grain waits on the stem to be collected. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I scoop grains from a bag and pour them into a silver container. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The slip of the grain under the fingers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He found small pathways among the boulders, wandering tracks both aimless and purposeful, which led toward the grain store, and also in various other directions which he could not understand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, a soft scraping noise confirmed my suspicion, and Digger slowly stood up from where he’d crouched behind a grain barrel in the corner. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z A seed of wheat might, with luck, yield 50 new grains of wheat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The wood was a dark charcoal color with a black grain, heavy as a sheet of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We found the owner anxious and affable; Serjeant Clippinger paid him a small requisite sum for his livestock and an excellent supply of grain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He -bought grain when it was plentiful and sold bread when it was scarce. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This did not matter, as there was far more grain than was needed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z With this ox he could plough his fields and cultivate them and with this ox tied to his mill he could grind the grain. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The shell of the egg is smooth but also grained; small pebbles of calcium are defined by the sunlight, like craters on the moon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt thorns tear at the grain bag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Betty sent me to the corner for the rest of the hour to pray for my own soul while kneeling on grains of uncooked rice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As the winds grew in ferocity and speed, the grains of sand began to sting like bites of mosquitoes and then like splinters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When Adam had gone back into the house and Lee was moving out with a pan of grain to feed the chickens, Cal put his arm around his brother’s shoulders and hugged him reassuringly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We are surviving on our grain, I want to tell him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z No larger than grains of dust, these transparent larvae swim about in the surface waters, feeding on the microscopic plant life of the plankton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z People all around us were fleeing to America: we heard tales of oranges the size of baking potatoes; fields of grain waving under sunny skies; clean, dry timber houses with indoor plumbing and electricity. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z All his life, time had been passing in the only way he knew time to pass: unrushed and unrushable, as sands running through an hourglass grain by grain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Pa had traded inside the village with the base people for rice and other grains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finally got up with sharp grains imbedded in my knees I found, to my surprise, that I no longer believed in God. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Beautiful grain. Soft enough. You study it for a while. We’ll carve tomorrow.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z How many grains of sand are there in the world? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Bill could cook rice like the Chinese— I mean rice that stood every grain on its own, but I never knew the Chinese to do what Bill could with seafood and beans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I poked my finger down into the mouth of my volcano, and it toppled, dispersing the golden grains into little swirls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When there was rain and sun in proportion so that the seed would sprout in the land and the stalk bear grain, he did not consider himself poor. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z If you left a bowl with even a few grains of rice, you would find it covered with hungry flies so thick it looked like a living bowl of black bean soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what will happen to the grain when you go back for the wolf?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Lupin was making Harry feel idiotic, and yet there was still a grain of defiance inside him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z What use can would-be farmers make of a ton of wheat grains on the stalk, if they have not first figured out how to harvest, husk, and store them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The big grains of salt on the pretzel skin tasted delicious. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There’s a majestic row of grain silos, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Along with the grain, it appears I have also sown strong seeds of friendship. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If Daario could convince the Lhazarene to reopen the overland trade routes, grains could be brought down the river or over the hills at need... but the Lamb Men had no reason to love Meereen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The thorns had torn a large hole in the grain bag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z During all my months of ciphering, I had counted on selling my grain to the miller at grain prices, not to the odd farmer as cattle feed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Farmers are busy; farmers are busy; if farmers weren’t busy, where would grain to get through the winter come from?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A reel feeds the standing grain into the sickle, where it is cut. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We went in: two rooms, one a sort of storehouse for grain, the other for everything else. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, for example, I would be reassuring the Pharaoh that the flood was a gift from the gods, that once it receded, the rich black earth of the delta would bring forth abundant grain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I can sense it in the frenzied way she’s scooting grains of rice around on her plate. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Wind Being collected these shimmering grains into its human form. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They filled a grain sack with coins and bills, leased seven acres of stumps and vine maple, purchased a ploiv horse, and started clearing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It continued driving the fire through the heart of Chicago, devouring churches, banks, publishing houses and printers, breweries, grain elevators, lumberyards, and department stores as if they were constructed of brittle hay. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z So we wanted to find a farm, preferably a big one, with a big barn and silos full of grain, near the mountains. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Sugar in zero-g will float and the grains will separate, maximizing surface area. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The grain in wild grasses develops near the top of the stem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was too granular to attempt to put a spindle hole down the middle, so I poured it in and tapped on the casement to settle the grain as best I could. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The simulated wood grain on the Atari’s plastic casing perfectly matched the simulated wood grain on the television cabinet and on the living room walls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Nanabozho opened Muskrat’s front paw and found a grain of earth in it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z There were still a few bushels of grain to sell for feed but that wouldn’t make a dent in my empty money pot. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Granted, I wouldn’t be looking out at a quilt of sprouting grain as I survey my flax and wheat fields had my neighbors not intervened. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I have about five minutes to eat a bowl of hot grain and stew before the prep team descends. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The morning ritual went on, each worker accepting his portion from Ranofer and carrying it to the courtyard to begin his task, while the scribe kept strict account of every grain. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z "Oh, grains. You want to know the names of some grains. Let's see, there's wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z By treating wheat strains with such “shock therapy,” Lysenko argued that he could make the plants flower more vigorously in the spring and yield higher bounties of grain through the summer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Das continued walking, oblivious, trailing grains of puffed rice. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I slap the spoon down on the table, and little grains of rice fly around me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They discovered that they could achieve much better results by sowing the grains deep in the ground rather than haphazardly scattering them on the surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was high summer, with the hay drying in the fields and all the village praying for the rain to hold off until the grain was safely cut and stored away for winter. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It seemed that every tree in it was accounted for, and that not one grain of sawdust from our mill went unused. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In that field, in the grain which had not yet begun to form, lay our future and our hope. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The Harbor was plied with barges and packets from all up and down the coast, delivering fuel and grain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As the birds descended on the fields and began to eat the grain, four of the most important men from the village ran off to find the old man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Wherever possible, I told of Bigger’s life in close-up, slow-motion, giving the feel of the grain in the passing of time. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Though he had done his best to think it out, what he was doing was altogether against the grain of his nature. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She didn’t even put her arms around the grain bag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not purple," Angela corrected her, "amber. 'For amber waves of grain.'" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The only time he’d change his course was when Mom dropped a few grains of fish food into his bowl each morning and evening. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z So he hoped, so he dreamed: that, in the course of time, grain by grain, the gray would give way to the dream and the sands of his life would run bright. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Thus before agriculture the people of Mesoamerica had never experienced what it was like to stand in a field of grain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I do not know for certain what magic is worked inside the binder, but the final product is a tied bundle of grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It is, and has always been, “gleaning,” named for the way the poor would trail behind farmers in ancient times, taking the stray stalks of grain left behind. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But still he was useful for he watched the labor of others and he stood by when the grain was weighed and measured. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There is just moonlight now, in the mill, and the musty smell of rotted grain hangs in the air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “He needs to be more compliant with his medications. He has to really go on a diet, which is grains, no red meat, no fat. No fat at all.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul’s gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She tried brewing drinks of roasted grain or roots, but her nervous system was not deceived by a beverage that resembled coffee only in appearance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The karpoi began to fight, dissolving into funnel clouds of grain. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The grains of sand felt very fine, almost like powder. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then gathering up the pile of grain in their arms they would bind it tightly around with the band they had made, and tie the band, and tuck in its ends. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the meeting. He’s older. All the men are at the meeting. But my mother didn’t go. The mothers don’t always go. She’s in the grain room, packing grain.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He showed them how to follow the grain of the wood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She lost herself in the blond wood grain, slipping into the elliptical lines of age on the wood’s surface. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Eating whole wheat bread and whole grains like brown rice became a symbol of the new movement. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On May 8th, I went to the Justice Building, signed up for my tesserae, and pulled home my first batch of grain and oil in Prim's toy wagon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He followed Billy into the grain room and watched him make the steaming bag ready. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Next I turn on the tap until the water skims the grains. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It bothered him, like a sand grain in the eye of his scientific instinct. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The grain was not enough to live on, and there were other things to buy, soap and milk and thread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She picked up children like sacks of grain and carried a large stick wherever she went. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then she realized what she was doing, staring at the grain on the wood, and urged herself to snap out of it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When Skarpi told a story, any interruption was like chewing a grain of sand in a mouthful of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He screamed himself hoarse, then just when Dad thought he had calmed down, he gripped Dad around the waist and flung him like a sack of grain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Preacher Ken shows them the chicken house, egg sorters, milking machines, grain silos, and communal kitchen. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When the morrow came, most of the morning was given over to talk of grains and greens and salting meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was natural, too, that the divine power which brought forth the grain should be thought of as a goddess, not a god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I could taste the rich ghee, each grain of rice, each speck of cumin, the tang of ginger, garlic, onion. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Its priests and nobles would be fed the last grains of the storehouses. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z At last, as Grandma stirred, the syrup in the saucer turned into little grains like sand, and Grandma called: “Quick, girls! It’s graining!” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them are strong enough to keep two grains together once they die. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “First they’ll grind us from grain to flour, then they’ll kill us. Who wants to wait around for that? Not me.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Henry is looking down, eyes distant and cast toward the grain of the table, and Alex can practically feel the energy roiling up from Catherine across from him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Karl says that with this heat, I wrote to my uncle, my grain will be ready to thresh in about two weeks. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Every story, I think, has a grain of truth to it. But sometimes, people are misled by what they believe, and they see what they think they should see, not what is actually there.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now there were only patches of grain on the bare hillsides and on each side of the water-courses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z When it boiled, she sprinkled in the fine grains and stirred. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The earliest advance over human muscle power was the use of animals—cattle, horses, and donkeys—to pull plows and to turn wheels for grinding grain, raising water, and irrigating or draining fields. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Volpe was in his mid-twenties and just starting off in his career, but he wasn’t one of those hippie teachers who talked about the Vietnam War, whole grains, and yogurt. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Most of this grain is headed for factory farms and processing plants, so no one worries much about keeping it clean. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some of the grain bins were so full, in fact, that the tree trunks which served as their legs broke and tipped the bins to the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It is also clear for Mesoamerica’s staple grain of corn, which spread to become a dominant crop elsewhere in the Americas as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That night for dinner, they were given rice that was mostly barley and grains that made it crunchy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Somewhere on this planet among its sextillion grains of sand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On the days that he had spied on Min, Tree-ear had occasionally glimpsed the wife coming out to the yard to scatter grain for the chickens or to fetch water. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The first one had a family room and master bedroom, plus a grain storage area. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Without grain in the silo, jars of olive oil in the cellar, cheese in the pantry and sausages hanging from the rafters, they would starve in bad years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It began in the Near East sometime about 8000 B.C., with the first successful attempts to domesticate animals and food grains. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My hand moves down Noelle’s body, down the seam of the frilly white shirt to the skirt, which has a slightly different grain to the fabric. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In the distance they were like grains of black sand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I pick up each grain and chew it slowly, trying to relish the taste, not wanting to swallow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Money still had a definite value in hours worked and bushels of grain sold. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Dad, “a man of science,” told us to take every bit of superstitious hogwash that came out of his mother’s mouth with a grain of salt. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z For every man’s a sinner, And he wants his neighbor’s grain. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Francie, watching, held her breath while the scoop dropped in a few more grains or gently eased some out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He later appealed to a mayor, hoping he might be able to get four more pounds of the rare grains. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The prizefighter carried two grain bags while the smaller, weasel-like man only had one. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She had the grain bag packed with mealie meal, yams, and dried kudu meat, plus a few tightly stoppered calabashes of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The grain elevator is the only buyer in town, and the elevator only pays for corn and soybeans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Her hands shook as she poured rice into the boiling water and, as she watched the narrow basmati grains begin to swell, she wondered if they were failing at this, their reconciliatory meal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Today we would eat and tomorrow, and for many weeks while the grain lasted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They are all sicker than I. Richard just looks at me when I bring him the salty water and wormy grain. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Then he proves he is the worst artist ever by drawing a chicken, a wolf, and a bag of grain on one side of the water. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z When prayers were said and all the grain was scattered great-hearted Thrasymedes in a flash swung the axe, at one blow cutting through the neck tendons. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was cold, and heavy with the dust and odor of grain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He saw the quail come down to eat with the chickens when he threw out the grain. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings had always seemed more impressive because they were the only buildings to receive regular paintings; usually, the nearby houses and cabins were left untouched to become the dull grained gray of weathered wood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z If there is a shortage of grain, people will pay more for it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was hard work, walking around and around the field in the hot sun, and with both hands swinging the heavy cradles into the grain and cutting it, then sliding it into the piles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Many objects exist to be exchanged and consumed: sacks of grain, for example, are turned into bread. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When the grain got ripe in the fields, Uncle Henry came to work with Pa, and Aunt Polly and all the cousins came to spend the day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna stared at the rice grains on the ground and wondered how her mother could have worked herself up like this over them and if her mother really believed her own outrage. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “It carries flour or grain,” Salvador whispered rapidly into her ear. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Still owe the colmado- man two for one for every grain of rice I did already eat. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But Jinjoo picked out pieces of fish from the soup that she tucked in the middle of the little rice balls she made out of the barley and grain rice. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Now add one grain of salt to any table and let Bob Evans walk among them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Its purpose was to keep records: the purchase of grain, the sale of land, the triumphs of the king, the statutes of the priests, the positions of the stars, the prayers to the gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Which would mean I moved a grain of sand?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu showed her the bar, organic, one hundred percent whole grain with real fruit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Inside, a row of yellow turbines the size of grain silos churned and hummed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She brought her eyes close to the surface of her desk and examined the patterned grain of the wood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was soft enough, my teeth ground the rice grains, producing a sweet taste that slid easily down my throat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because British food stocks were low, Redcoats had taken grain from her. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo hefted the grain bag to her shoulder and set off again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Such rapid advancement cut against the grain in New Haven. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He leaned up and kissed her, going against every grain of his nature. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Houses, churches, fields of grain, nothing was spared by the Firedrake in its ruinous flight. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The foreigners, coming from a land plagued by famine, were awed by maize, which yields more grain per acre than any other cereal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was as rough as the wood grain of the table in the dining hall, the skin along his thumb as hard and dry as leather cracking with age. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The grain of the wood felt reassuringly solid, and tracing its whorls with her eyes was easier than thinking. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She bites into the sunflower seed butter sandwich her mom packs every Friday—on sprouted whole grain with the crusts cut off. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He’d heard from Wayne Westerberg that a job was waiting for him at the grain elevator in Carthage, and he was eager to get there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Interpret me this dream: From a water’s edge twenty fat geese have come to feed on grain beside my house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, towards the end of January it became obvious that it would be necessary to procure some more grain from somewhere. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “With grain prices the way they are...what are we going to live on?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I like 100 percent whole grain wheat bread, thin sliced. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Beech. See, you can tell by the grain. It’s really smooth. And the way it’s tied, it’ll never come off.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If he hoarded grain, or sold books, or taught children to read, I'd understand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I tap the roll at my waist—the grains give at my touch. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z McCandless stayed with Westerberg for three days, riding out with his crew each morning as the workers piloted their lumbering machines across the ocean of ripe blond grain. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They permeate the grain in wood, metal, and stone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo lay back on the grain bag and tried to think. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “They furl their sails at double-time, then off they go,” he said, “into the city like mice into grain.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z While other tributes that year were hard-pressed to get a handful of grain or some matches for a gift, Finnick never wanted for anything, not food or medicine or weapons. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Sacrabani was isolated from the start, a white crow in a flock of black, a grain of wheat among the rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z My medicine chest was not designed for general practice, but I did have a bottle of sleeping pills—seconal, one and a half grains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod and swirl my feet through the rough grains, enjoying the gritty tickling at the bottom of my feet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I stared at the glass, seeing how the light shone through, throwing a transparent, precisely fluted shadow against the dark grain of the table, and there on the bottom of the glass lay an eye. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the floating material that was left over, two microscopic grains floated close enough together to be joined by electrostatic forces. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And lying there it seemed that he saw every single grain of dust and every blade of grass and that he heard every cry and shout and whisper going up in the world now. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z We are allowed one cup of grain for each person each day. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Looking down he began moving the white cloth along the grain of the bar again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Antain loved woodworking—the stability of the material, the delicate beauty of the grain, the comforting smell of sawdust and oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I roll one last sand grain, perfect and sharp, between my finger and thumb. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to recognize and grasp the form of some things, because they are small and simple, like a grain of salt, or repetitive, like a wall made of bricks of the same size. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Less well known are Africa’s combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes’ combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Grandma told us not to listen to her artichoke of a son and to take those grains of salt and throw them right over our left shoulders to blind the devil. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z One day Dayapan wept because all she wanted was one grain of rice and one pea pod—anything to put in her belly. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He searched floors, roads, and fields for grains of rice, beans, or cow dung that contained undigested kernels of corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He pulled out a pound sack of grain. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Every available man went out into the fields to gather in the gold of grain and fodder. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z What happens to the corn plants and the luxuriant branching vines when the grain is harvested, the grapes gathered, and the black frost sets in, killing the fresh green life of the fields? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Stella, now nervously circling the burl of the wood grain at double speed, thought tonight could be the one when she wore a hole clear through it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "The same things I'd have of all of them, lad. Men, horses, swords, armor, grain, cheese, wine, wool, nails . . . the Night's Watch is not proud, we take what is offered." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He went to Delphi, but all the priestess would say was to bid him seek the land where men eat not Demeter’s golden grain, but only acorns. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “We can bed him up real thick, and try to keep him off his feet. Grass hay only and no grain. And no work.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A man and a god lives far in the bread, deep in the grain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He found a shop recommended to him by a clerk in the grain market where his second son now was, and he went to it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z So I covered him with a grain sack and shot him in the head. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sun and wind had leathered his broad face, burnt it dark and grained it with fine lines. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Great fields of some kind of grain grew under row upon row of hanging white lamps. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The reserves of grain I had put by began to dwindle despite my care. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z These meteors are made by tiny grains, smaller than a mustard seed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no waving fields of grain that I could see, no oversized oranges. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “He’s a good skinner. He can rassel grain bags, drive a cultivator. He can do anything. Just give him a try.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Something glinted inside her ear, grains of sand from the beach maybe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Master’s plate was always the most rice-strewn, as if he ate distractedly so that the grains eluded his fork. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Each of the hundred thousand tiny grains of sand in her fists grinds against its neighbor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Stores that sold kettles, yeasts, grains, and other supplies that permitted a person to distill his own liquor or brew his own beer sprang up in every town and city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Some rode in carts piled high with produce: cabbages and bags of grain, cheese, butter and bacon, chickens and ducks. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z We bent down and tried to put a bit of the clean grain back into the sack. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z At first glance, the soil seemed similar to what one would find in, say, the grain belts of North America or Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z No liquid water was present except for very thin films wetting individual sand grains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each tessera is worth a meager year's supply of grain and oil for one person. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Since it was impossible to eat wild grains without first winnowing, grinding and cooking them, people who gathered these grains carried them back to their temporary campsites for processing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had a distended bladder. If he’s dopey, it’s because I gave him one and a half grains of seconal.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His uncle was always having to sell his grain before it was even well ripened. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He pointed back to the stack of grain sacks. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Trying not to put in too much or too little, he trickled fine firing grains into the priming pan beneath the hammer lock and flint. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z This work, they thought, would provide them with more fruit, grain and meat. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z More monsters kept appearing - karpoi grain spirits swirling out of the grass, gryphons diving from the sky, lumpy clay humanoids that made Jason think of evil Play-Doh men. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They tended livestock and harvested hay, grain crops, and potatoes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If there is a lot of grain on the market, sellers have to compete with each other for customers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The cows on these “farms” spend their time in a fenced lot eating organic grain except for the three times a day they are hooked up to milking machines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It never cools the room much, but when there's no electricity and it can't even move a tiny bit of air, I feel like a grain of rice boiling in my own sweat. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z His sloping shoulders were bent forward and he walked heavily on his heels, as though he carried the invisible grain bag. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the dogs fell upon the grain bag with snarls and flashing teeth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Put him on stall rest and cut his grain. Other than that, there’s not much we can do.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He examined the grain of wood in its handle. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The wood’s light-colored, with soft gray grain running down it like pathways. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Pictures and videos taken in the markets showed bags of grain marked as “A Gift from the American People.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A woman stood at the edge of the clearing pouring grain from one bark platter to another, and the loose chaff drifted off on the slight wind like smoke. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly the river shrank as the grain sprouted, grew, and covered the black with emerald; continued to shrink under the ever more powerful sun as the emerald ripened into gold. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Go on out with the grain teams after dinner. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no bigger than a grain of sand, no bigger than the head of a pin. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The extra rations from Master Wingfield do not last long, and soon we are back to the wormy grains. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He dumped the grain to the chickens without chasing any of them. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year North Korea needs to produce more than five million tons of rice and cereal grain to feed its twenty-three million people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I eat the rice slowly, and even pick up one grain if I drop it on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The grain was just beginning to ripen and the fields were full of poppies. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He gave McCandless em-ployment at the grain elevator and rented him a cheap room in one of the two houses he owned. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood alongside 534 as he lowered his big head into the stream of grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Tiny grains of rice would inevitably fall through the prongs of the fork. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I rubbed him with a sack and I gave him hot grain.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He got to his feet, walked to the storeroom and tugged open the door, feeling the saliva pour into his mouth as the fragrance of grain and salted fish came out to meet him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Nhamo contented herself with licking a few grains from her fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You need to take the chicken and then the grain, but then take the chicken back with you and leave it while you take the wolf. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z That put extra grain on the market and brought the price down. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The sound of the approaching grain teams was louder, thud of big hooves on hard ground, drag of brakes and the jingle of trace chains. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It's real bakery bread, not the flat, dense loaves we make from our grain rations. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Nigel picked Rufus up like a sack of grain, threw him over his shoulder, and strode back to the house in such quick long strides that I had to run to keep up. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z On that day we used up the last grains of orsh, and the last few ounces of kadik-germ; we had left now two pounds apiece of gichy-michy, and six ounces of sugar. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were haggard, pitted with kernels of grain. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The number of kids signing up for tesserae soars, but they often don’t receive their grain. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a fancy pipe, made of a piece of sumac wood marked with a sweet grain. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Just before dawn we find two overturned carts in the road, grains of wheat spilled everywhere and a few empty baskets rolled on their sides across the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Let’s see, there’s grain, the biggest export—a thrasher goes from farm to farm, and neighbors get together to bundle the shocks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Every head bent sharply under its load of grain, and the grass was dry enough so that it made a swishing sound as Jody and Billy stepped through it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Piper didn’t see how a grain spirit could be so bad, but Hazel’s tone convinced her not to ask. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of com will pass undigested through the body of a bird. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then Nanabozho took the grains of earth in the palm of his hand. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Boats and trains brought vast amounts of lumber, grain, and livestock into the city to be stored and processed, then shipped out to customers across the country. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Using a rake made from a stick of red willow pulled up by the roots, the two girls took turns turning the rice over and over, smoking and toasting the grains. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z It could supply them with a ready-to-eat vegetable, a storable grain, a source of fiber, an animal feed, and heating fuel. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Connor dodged an ogre club and stabbed a grain spirit, which exploded in a cloud of wheat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Fujiko’s pillow lay white where her head had been, but around it a layer of fine yellow grains had gathered. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He explained that with four grains of denner resin, a man could have his foot amputated without a twinge of pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the camp, when his teacher beat a six-year-old classmate to death for having five grains of corn in her pocket, Shin confessed to the congregation that he “didn’t think much about it.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The night air was filled with the smell of apples and shocked grain, and I could hear the noise in the meadhall from a mile away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I place one clammy palm against the grain of the door and push. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The silk lifted and waved, and the hundreds of thousands of grains of rice rose into the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z "I bet some of them are grain. I bet Thresh knows which ones, too," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Next to her I am a rock, and Bob is a grain of sand. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The Faustian bargain between humans and grains was not the only deal our species made. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He would weigh the gold, every grain, and pour the ingots and wash the sweep, and he would not carry home the wineskin when the day was done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Then, when the people had finished their work in the fields, the birds flew down and ate as much grain as they could manage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She hung the grain bag from a stray wire halfway up and leaned the spear against it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the grain away carefully in the granary, then he rose. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The weather may have been good for the grain, but it did nothing for anyone’s temper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z "Do you have any idea how many grains of sand there are in the world?" he asked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The walls were ten feet high and made of supplies from his root cellar—sacks of grain, cases of ammunition, drums of honey. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was assigned to hauling sixty-pound bags of grain on my back through the snow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We spent two days on the Amtrak train, heading west through hills, over rivers, past amber waves of grain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He’s leaning on the table, his fingers spread wide against the wood grain. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Through her the field of grain was hallowed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When gathering wild grains, they took care to lay aside part of the harvest to sow the fields next season. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sounds were the swish of scythes, the shouts of men, and the cries of birds fighting for bits of grain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was a nice, quiet afternoon, with cattle grazing in front of the family compound and Nyanriak in the yard grinding millet—a kind of grain we Dinka eat a lot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered why Snail wished to grow grain when he was rich enough to buy all the grain he could ever need. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Jody skinned the grain from a grass stem and threw the handful into the air, so that each pointed, feathered seed sailed out like a dart. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in an old grain bag, and his feet were bare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z If trouble can multiply like rats in grain, then that is what our troubles do in 1609. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z "If a treasure is hidden in a grain shed on a mountain plain, I sure don't have time to look for it. Do you?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery and planting of nonshattering grain is thought to have been integral to the Neolithic revolution in the Middle East. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Such harvests as this,” he said, sliding the grains about in his hand, “and you shall not want for anything, beloved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d built his whole life around the irritation of her words, like the grain of sand at the centre of a pearl. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When me and Jay got up on Saturday, we shoveled hot Cream of Rice cereal into our mouths, then huffed and puffed to cool it down as the steaming grain burned our tongues. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z His chickens do eat non-organic grain, but they “see a new paddock of fresh green grass every day.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I saw her fingers parting the husk, feeling for the grain within. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And the one on the pigeons, trained to peck a button that made a grain of corn appear. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He rubs at her eyebrow, wipes grains of sand from it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The patterned grains of wood in the scarred surface reminded her of currents in the Mississippi River. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He was already signed up for tesserae, which entitled them to a meager supply of grain and oil in exchange for his entering his name extra times in the drawing to become a tribute. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The grains in our village’s storehouses were almost gone, and everyone was careful not to take too much. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z There was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and seething tides. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A similar but more classic calculation of this type was made by Archimedes, who estimated the number of grains of sand needed to fill up the earth and heavens. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But that year, the price the grain elevator co-op paid for a bushel of corn was only about $1.45. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When cattle, chickens, and other animals eat grass—and not just corn or other grains—they are actually healthier for us to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Satisfied with a job well done, the work crews stacked up their materials, and were hauled up to the ramparts in the large grain baskets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Cut trees, cane; plowed till he could hardly lift his arms; plucked chickens and cotton; hauled lumber, grain, quarry rocks and stock. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I want to remember, it is like looking into a bowl and finding the last grains of rice you did not finish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She hauled it back to the kitchen hut and poured the grains into a mortar made from a tree trunk. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that the last of the rice was gone it was in a sense a relief: no amount of scheming and paring would make it go any further: the last grain had been eaten. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z During times of famine or drought, he never gave one spoonful of rice to a starving child, even though his jars were overflowing with grains. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “It has to pick out every grain of salt before it can wear the skin again,” Doc said, his voice a tobacco-scented whisper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When Kuti was gone—with a bland indifference that mocked our loss—the abundant grain grew ripe. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were as small as grains of wheat, bristling with tiny hairs. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The sample weighed about a thousandth of a grain of sand, but it was thirty-four times more concentrated with the fissionable isotope than was natural uranium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The lord received a tenth of all the grain they ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That hidden grain of sand—tiny and infinite all at once, both compact and expanding. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In his “Sand Reckoner,” Archimedes first calculated how many grains of sand would fit across a poppy seed, and then how many poppy seeds would span a finger's breadth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not talking about painting the Mona Lisa or curing cancer. I’m just talking about moving that one grain of sand one millimeter.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the dining hall, as I down my hot grain and milk and mushy beets, I spot a communicuff on Gale’s wrist. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Hosteen Mitchells fingers delicately sprinkled golden grains to make the figure of Pollen Boy on the mound where everything was prepared. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw children playing with a soccer ball near a field of grain, a field that Rameel had helped to get planted for them. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z She said, “It doesn’t feel small to me,” and I thought about moving a single grain of sand one millimeter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I went back down the steps and walked across their flat dirt yard, past several outbuildings and the huge grain silos, to the first of four long chicken houses. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z She opened her other hand and, from Pinmei’s handkerchief, hundreds of rice grains fell onto the floor like a sudden rain shower. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They arranged a pouch of seashells on her breast together with morsels of smoked fish and a few grains of corn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They were successful in protecting their grain stores and, for a time, kept the British from moving beyond the Jamestown fort. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They lower their prices to try to sell their grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Three groups of them: the first got one grain per peck, the second one grain every other peck, the third was random. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the chalk his troops used for surveying ran out, he turned to the grain that was supposed to sustain them on their trip through the desert. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Then you leave the wolf with the grain and go back for the chicken. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Meat alone does not make a meal, though, so there were fruits and grains and vegetables as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I thought of those unfinished mouthfuls of rice, and then the grains that lined my bowl the day before, and the day before that. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of years ago Indigenous scientists turned a wild grain into a food source that sustained their bodies and their spiritual lives. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They were fashioned of ebony and weirwood, die black and white grains swirling and twisting in strange interwoven patterns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One had a ricelike grain, and the smallest contained a handful of fresh greens. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Tears mix with the food in my mouth; my heart falls to my stomach when all the eight grains are gone and I see that the others are still eating theirs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful or beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of the precious dust in the soil at the root of each. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When the husks were loosened, Nhamo poured the grain into a winnowing basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I look into my bowl, and my heart cries as I count the eight grains that are left in my bowl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, because I had to, and three times for tesserae for grain and oil for myself, Prim, and my mother. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On either side of her now were great double doors, carved with fruit and grain and living things; all the doors she could see in this house were closed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “We will find our strength. One look at the swelling grain will be enough to renew our vigour.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside were several guns on racks and he looked at them thoughtfully, running his fingers lovingly down the smooth grain of the hand-rubbed stocks, and finally lifted down a beautifully chased and engraved double-barreled gun. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Back at the barns, men carry in hay on wooden forks, dump grain in the mangers, and carry out manure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Wang Lung went into the inner room there was O-lan upon the bed with two new-born children, a boy and a girl as alike as two grains of rice. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z A cradle was a sharp steel blade fastened to a framework of wooden slats that caught and held the stalks of grain when the blade cut them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon they were back in the field, eating the last of the grain that was left. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Every stalk of the cut grain must always be safely in the shock before dark, for lying on the dewy ground all night would spoil it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When our barrels are close to empty, Captain Smith goes to trade with the natives for grain. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I run to the side of the road and throw up each grain of beer and that disgusting drag of a cigarette, every last lying, revolting kiss, until I’m just a bag of clattering bones. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I knew that a black neighbor of mine was stealing bags of grain from a wholesale house where he worked, though he was a stanch deacon in his church and prayed and sang on Sundays. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All languages embody the obsessions of the people who speak them, and so Sasha’s language was meant to reflect the interests of a people whose world was dominated by growing seasons, grains, and harvests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Thinking I must have dropped a grain or two, I vacuumed the entire apartment with a straw up my nose, sucking up dead skin cells, Comet residue, and pulverized cat litter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z With twelve grains he’d go for a jog afterward, laughing and singing “Tinker Tanner.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Every time a breeze made the grass rustle, Frank thought about the grain spirits who’d captured Hazel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At exactly the same time, another group of criminals stole four casks of grain alcohol from a government warehouse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He had no way of knowing, of course, that all the rest were also gone and would not return, that his grain loft was safe. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Corn is an English word that has been used to describe | grain crops including wheat and oats. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Normally, Karl had said, it would take three men to keep up with the threshers output, filling the gunnysacks and stitching them with exactly seven stitches before tossing them onto the grain wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Already, he had begun lining some of his grain bins with sheet metal. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He crouched down at the cut ends and peered at the annual growth rings, trying to get a nuanced read on how tight and regular the grain within was likely to be. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But the busi-nesses that run the grain elevators and the industrial food chain do not look at corn as food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One of these harns was a mammoth Quonset hut; it brimmed with grain—Westland sorghum—and one of them housed a dark, pungent hill of milo grain worth considerable money—a hundred thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her which grains had protein, which vegetables had carotene, which fruits were too sugary He knew about everything; she was intimidated by this and proud of this and slightly repelled by this. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Grain by grain, molecule by molecule, carbohydrate fuel in the form of glucose is fed into this wheel; in its cyclic passage the fuel molecule undergoes fragmentation and a series of minute chemical changes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her face is long and narrow like a grain of rice, and she wears her hair cut into a mushroom-shaped bob. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I had never felt the comfortable silence we shared as we cleaned the rice, carefully, because the grains were stunted and sometimes looked like the glassy stones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “I guess I would have moved a grain of sand.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She held the capsule under the light and saw the white crystals inside—six grains of morphine, a good, sure margin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When he ran to the door he saw the barn enveloped in flames that leaped far into the sky; hay, grain, wagon, harnesses, and plows were feeding them, and they were hungry. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It bought some grain to keep it off the market. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He said, “I just mean right then, when you moved that single grain of sand. What would that mean?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then Ma churned more slowly, and on the dash there began to appear tiny grains of yellow butter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We got very embarrassed at school when the rags came loose and their contents fell out in clumps and grains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And I thought of a mean neighbor boy who had tiny pits in his cheeks, and it was true, those marks were the size of rice grains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The others chimed in, calling out different types of grain. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It's made of dark ration grain and shaped in a crescent. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Sam was building a fire to cook his breakfast of wild cereal grains he had collected. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He that said “I sweat,” he gathered up soil and seawater and with them made trees, plants, herbs and grains of the field, animals, and men. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed the metal canister of rice Mama kept on the counter, the shaking grains sounding like a rattlesnake’s warning. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I brush grains of rock from my cheek. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Carefully, I place my other hand under my treasure to catch any grains that might fall from my finger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They say he’s got fat peacocks strutting around in a courtyard, protected by high walls, pecking up grain from silver plates inscribed with Moorish designs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Down on the river at the outskirts of town there was the mill, where Jethro drove first and bargained with the grain according to his father’s instructions. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But still he never wished me good luck and that has always gone against the grain. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of building silos and growing grain, he started growing grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A few grains of the powder fell onto the bridge of her nose as she used the thumbtack to stamp a dot above her eyebrows. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He anxiously awaits their return, praying they will be overflowing with grains and smoked meats and leading calves and pigs to be slaughtered. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There would be few recognizable pieces of the comet left—perhaps only a smattering of small grains from the non-icy parts of the cometary nucleus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the country there were barns and silos stocked with grain and corn, and chicken houses full of eggs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Afraid that the crunch of uncooked rice might wake the others, I softened the grains with saliva. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t hunger, not really, just the primal need to feel my mouth move, to cut the tender meat against my teeth, to have the still-hot grain warm my throat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z We both stood there, breathing hard, staring at the wash of rice grains that had tumbled out of the canister and spread to almost every corner of the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “They ate everything: the plants, the houses, the stored grain. They even fastened onto the cattle and drank their milk.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A windmill swung its giant arms in slow obedience to the wind and a farmer passed them carrying a sack of grain to be ground. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z First I give them all the food in my pack, grain and dried beans mostly, but there’s enough to hold them for a while if they’re careful. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z From over on Castroville Street came the sweet sound of jingling horse bells from an eight-horse grain team down from the ridge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When passenger pigeons found an area with grain or nuts to eat, they formed a long, linear front that advanced forward, heads peck-peck- pecking at the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They moved from hut to hut, entering each one with smiles and hands full of things like bread and jugs of water and crates of rice and grains. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The grain of the wood was uneven, the varnish rough and scratched. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z After that, he boils the sap until it grains when he cools it in a saucer. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Others jump inside hoppers full of sand or grain, but only if they can find cars that are full enough that they will be able to crawl out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She experimented with different methods of carrying the grain bag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That was because the chickens had spent their lives outdoors on pastures rather than in a shed eating grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The grain of truth in them, on the other hand, involved Washington’s quite conspicuous embodiment of authority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He watched Mother gathering up dirty dishes while Dad, Matthew, and Mark leaned back in their chairs, talking of grain yields. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z A gust of wind blew against his calves and then began to circle in front of him, picking up grains of the dark blue sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Then you know that Rameel’s ministry consists of more talk about rice and grain than about Jesus?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Along the road I saw women winnowing baskets of threshed grain in the wind, the clouds of chaff flying off in the breeze. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z When prices were higher, farmers sold their grain and repaid the government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She scrambled under the fence, abandoning her grain bag and spear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he tapped the pestle on the ringing edge of the mortar, dislodging the final grains, and took a brush and ink and wrote some characters on a sheet of paper. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z And she answered, “Now and I do not know but I think he was master of a grain market, but I will ask Cuckoo who knows everything about men and their money.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z America’s patriotic song “America the Beautiful” invokes our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A chopper brought in some hot food for us and some grain and a box of chicks for the people in the hamlet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one else scheduled down here until harvest season when the grain comes down the Mississippi.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Late that night we were still at work, cleaning the fish, hulling the rice, separating the grain from the husk. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Our entire solar system is an insignificantly small part of the universe, a grain of sand in an endless desert. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He laid a few grains on Susie’s tray, then dug back in. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The earth would have to swallow the Eolian, Imre, and the whole Centhe Sea before I gave him a grain of satisfaction over this. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And I remembered how the splinters in some of the boards were raised from the grain by the wind, the sun and the rain until the clapboards shone with a satiny, silvery, silver-fish sheen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn at the grain elevator was not the same kind of corn you or I eat when we have corn on the cob. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Nothing prospered there in Hearth or tilth, all being blighted with illness, the spring seed frozen in the ground or the ripe grain rotten, and so it had been for many years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I gazed helplessly at the grain of the desk, then past his head to the case of loving cups behind his chair. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The driver opens a valve in the belly of the truck and a golden stream of grain begins to flow down a chute into the bowels of the mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With an indignant squawk, Rose led the way into their new domicile, tempted by a trail of grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z After all the grain was cut, they must go over the field again. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His late father's friends helped Houseman get jobs in companies that bought and sold grain throughout the world. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He said, “Well, what would happen if a plane dropped you in the middle of the Sahara Desert and you picked up a single grain of sand with tweezers and moved it one millimeter?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Minli stared down at her rice bowl; the few white grains left sat like precious pearls at the bottom of her bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z One man was working fast, sacking the pouring grain. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Colliding dust grains formed larger and larger clumps. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Two young boys, the only children there, were going from fire to fire shaking grain in shallow pans and stirring it with paddles as it parched. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s more worms than grain in our meal.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z And the time Digger ran away from home and made a bed for himself on a bunch of empty grain sacks in one corner. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z When the man in charge cut off the grain, the first group gave up quite soon, the second group a little later. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smells like wet grain and hedge trimmings; in the lulls between their footfalls, she can hear a deep, nearly subsonic roar. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z During these long millennia people occasionally ate wheat grain, but this was a marginal part of their diet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But it felt a little like those times when they had opened the dinner delivery containers to find that the evening meal would be grains prepared with fish oil. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then we walk over to a young man who has sacks filled with rice and all sorts of uncooked grains. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Inside it, James could see a mass of tiny green things that looked like little stones or crystals, each one about the size of a grain of rice. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Now it had turned wild, mostly tall weeds with just a bit of grain mixed in. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I scattered some grain for the hungry chickens and watched their mad scramble as the rooster called them to peck. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1932 and 1933 it took away the food crop harvest and next season's seed in the Soviet states that produced most of the nation's grain—Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They tore open the food stores, snarling and growling and tossing their great cruel beaks high as they swallowed the dried meat and all the preserved fruit and grain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They repositioned the sacks of grain and seed to make a slim pocket. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She cups her hand as if it were full of water or grain as she points to the small, perfect giraffes and elephants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It is a lot easier to break the corn down into kernels and pump it, like a liquid, into the grain elevators and into the railroad cars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Well, we recently bought a bag of grain something. I’m not used to that. We try to put it on the cereal. It’s okay.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z My finger rolls so slowly that I can feel the rough grains bonding to it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you spat on each grain of corn that was planted, the corn would grow tall and bear well. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And, all at once, the grain of sand behind her forehead began to soften and release—just a bit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It goes some- how against the grain to learn that cost-benefit analyses can be done neatly on lakes, meadows, nesting gannets, even whole oceans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Back home, too big to carry, would be bags of grain, cans of oil. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The blade’s image zoomed straight through the doorway, down a spiral stairwell, and into a dark, cylindrical chamber like the inside of a grain silo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The erosion in interstellar space—chiefly cosmic rays and impacting dust grains—is so slow that the information on the record will last a billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Its tight, even grain makes it strong but flexible, easy to bend yet disinclined to twist, warp, or cup. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Instead, she slid her fingers back and forth across the rough grain of the table’s underside, letting her skin drag over the unfinished wood, working out a kind of counterpoint to Henry’s rambling. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z This year for the first time he sold his grain as soon as it was harvested, and when he felt the silver upon his palm he gripped it hard in defiance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And he bought three pigs and a flock of fowls to feed on the grains spilled from the harvests. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The emergency supplies of food and medicine would last only a few days at most, and most of the storage facilities for grain, meats, and beverages had been destroyed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I had laid in a huge store of gunnysacks, hoping to fill them all with the threshed grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I think that, for his weight, one and a half grains is a pretty heavy dose, but Charley must have a high tolerance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven months earlier, on a frosty March afternoon, McCandless had ambled into the office at the Carthage grain elevator and announced that he was ready to go to work. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She contemplated a few pulpy grains of crushed root clinging to her fingertips and resisted—for the twentieth time—the temptation to see what they tasted like. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The rats and mice destroyed the farmers’ grain in the fields and in their stores. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z |
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