The thin clouds following soon cleared away from the western sky, rain-washed and blue, with a rainbow curving down to bury its exquisite hues in the golden wheat.

Yet it was not such a gold as that of the rich blaze of ripe wheat.

Gideon, the deliverer of Israel, was "threshing wheat by the wine press" when called to lead the host against the Midianites.

After long ages of growth in the darkness beneath the glaciers, through sunshine and storms, it seemed now to be ready and waiting for the elected artist, like yellow wheat for the reaper; and I could not help wishing that I might carry colors and brushes with me on my travels, and learn to paint.

He will burn up the stubble and chaff, and leave only the pure wheat for the use of future generations.

It emanated from the French Military Mission and claimed from me the modest sum of two thousand three hundred and fourteen francs on behalf of one Madame Veuve Palliard-Dubose, of the village of Sailly-le-Petit, Pas de Calais, the claimant alleging that my troopers had stolen unthreshed wheat to that value wherewith to feed their horses.

" Children delight in carrying out the processes involved in the making of flour, and they can easily thrash a little wheat, then winnow, grind between stones and sift it.

Foreign wheat and barbed wirethose are the two curses of this country, for the one spoils the farmer's work and the other spoils his play.

"The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown.

You'll sow more an' better wheat than everthan any other man in the Northwest.

It cast a searching, uncanny glare over the tall wheat in head between the trenches.

The rustic, who dreads hounds over his new-sown wheat, replies: Music!

If what is allowed us were composed only of barley, or any other wholesome grain, we should not repine; but the distribution at present is a mixture of grown wheat, peas, rye, &c. which has scarcely the resemblance of bread.

The wild bee winds his drowsy horn, The bird swings on the ripened wheat, The long, green lances of the corn Are tilting in the winds of morn, The locust shrills his song of heat.

The sweet, waving wheat, rich and goldenthe very spirit of life!"

This Bluestem is not bearded wheat, like Turkey Red.

Whirling strings of dust looped up over fallow ground, the short, dry wheat lay back from the wind, the haze in the distance was drab and smoky, heavy with substance.

Father and the boys had been forced to leave the harvesting of the miserable pinched wheat while they went to mend it, as the small allowance of grass the drought gave us was precious, and had to be carefully preserved from neighbours' stock.

It was astonishing how tenacious the fire appeared, how it crept along, eating up the mowed wheat.

And the love of Mr. and Mrs. Parasang has always reminded me of the mummy wheat.

For she is standing there By the window, with her hair Yellow like autumnal wheat When the sunshine falls on it.

It should be cooked in the same way as pearled wheat, but requires only three hours' cooking.

The dreaming hills with their precious rustling wheat meant more than even a spirit could tell.

I thought, "Why wouldn't the husks come off if the raw wheat was whirled around in that drum?"

"Concerning the health of swine, I will say one thing only by way of example: if the sow is not able to supply milk the sucking pigs should be fed, until they are three months old, on roasted wheat (for when it is raw it loosens the bowels) or on barley boiled in water.