Grains

Examples

• Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As you say, there appear to be grains of sawdust in it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The wind blows about the sands of the desert; the position of the grains is changed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When dry, dip the paper into a solution of iodide of potassium, containing 500 grains dissolved in 1 pint of water, and let it remain in the solution two or three minutes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They cultivated n umerous vegetables, grains, fruits, and flowers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In alluvial deposits it is extracted by washing, in dust grains, lamin? or nuggets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When it is desired to color the lips add 20 grains of carmine. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He is vulnerable to reason there--always a few grains of common-sense in an ounce of miserliness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The grains are afterward saturated with saltpetre. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The human body, cloth, leather, metals, wood and grains, everything that needs rubbing, cleaning, painting and polishing, meets the acquaintance of the brush. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These ingots are passed between steel rollers till they form long ribbons of such thinness that a square inch will weigh six and one-half grains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The petals in the imperfect flowers almost always consist of mere rudiments, and the pollen-grains are reduced in diameter. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Libra, a pound, understood in prescription to apply to an officinal pound of 5,760 grains. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It is thus described:--Dissolve 100 grains of crystallized nitrate of silver in 6 ounces of distilled water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If he was left alive till I came, I'd grind his skull under the iron heel of my boot into as many grains as there are hairs upon his head. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Divided Feeds for Separate Grains and Fertilizing Material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• By the road the black-thorn was in blossom, white and wet, its tiny amber grains burning faintly in the white smoke of blossom. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Separating rice grains by flailing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Had the birds, carrying some grains of it to a distance, dropped one over him as they sow chance seeds? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Here Mr. Perker drew himself up with conscious dignity, and brushed some stray grains of snuff from his shirt frill. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Then, in 1726, Dr. Hales told how many cubic inches of gas a certain number of grains of coal would produce. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Just a few grains? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Corn, wheat, rye, in fact all cereals and grains, potatoes, and most vegetables are rich in carbohydrates; as are also sugar, molasses, honey, and maple sirup. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Therewith Miss Jenny related what had come to pass in the Albany, omitting the few grains of pepper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Each bottle contains: Extract of Lycopus Virginiana (the herb) 308 grains. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Mycroft took snuff from a tortoise-shell box, and brushed away the wandering grains from his coat front with a large, red silk handkerchief. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The watchmaker, unassisted by the magnifying glass, could not detect the tiny grains of dust or sand which clog the delicate wheels of our watches. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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