26 Metaphors for wheat

All kinds of bread are excellent for this purpose, but wheat and Indian are the best.

The wheat was St. Peter's courage, and faith, and honour, which came from God; and that remained, and St. Peter kept them for ever.

An increasing family, however, and el dorado of the west, which, in that day, produced wheat, were inducements for a removal there, and, aided by Mary's gentle management, produced the desired effect; and for more than twenty years Roswell Gardiner has been a very successful miller, on a large scale, in one of the western counties of what is called "the Empire State."

"Wheat in the ear is not wheat in the mill," said he.

This done, the wheat is ground between two circular stones, as it was ground in Egypt 2,000 years ago (see No. 117), the requisite rotary motion being given by a blindfolded mule, which paces round and round with untiring patience, a bell being attached to his neck, which, as long as he is in movement, tinkles on; and when it stops, he is urged to his duty by the shout of "Arre, mula," from some one within hearing.

The first facts to come out were that many crops were ruined already, but, owing to the increased acreage that year, a fair yield was expected; that wheat in the Bend would be a failure, though some farmers here and there would harvest well; that the lumber districts were not operating, on account of the I.W.W.

Wheat is their staple food, and with the juice of the grape they make a kind of bread, which is eaten toasted, and is not then unlike a Christmas plum-pudding.

Wheat was the main staple for the masses of the people.

Wheat, corn, peas, and beans are seeds of plants.

Wheat had been a subject little touched upon and the war had never been mentioned.

The wheat is your faith, your belief that if you trust in God he will prosper you, body and soul.

Wheat is their staple productthe article which they exchange for foreign comforts and luxuries.

Wheat was six shillings a-quarter; that would be, according to our scale, two shillings and three-pence a-bushel.

Cracked wheat is the grain cleaned and then cut into two or more pieces; in rolled wheat the grains are mashed between rollers, by which process they are thoroughly softened in every part, and are then easily cooked.

But the wheat, the golden wheat, is a great fact that seizes hold of the mind; the idea comes of itself that it represents solid wealth.

The wheat and barley there are a good four inches broad in the blade, and millet and sesame grow as big as treesbut I will not state the dimensions I have ascertained, because I know that, for anyone who has not visited Babylonia and witnessed these facts about the crops for himself, they would be altogether beyond belief.

It may be doubted whether wheat was the general bread-corn of that age; and if rye, barley, or oats, were the common food, and wheat, as I suspect, only a delicacy, the value of wheat will not regulate the price of other things.

But that wheat was a small enterprise to gain a nation's gratitude.

Wheat, rye, barley and potatoes are the staple products.

The skyline of the city is no longer stenciled by the towering masts of sailing ships discharging or loading cargo, or lying in the stream or in Richardson's Bay awaiting charters, as in the days when wheat was king of California's great central valley.

He has a class in Maria's grange, where the wheat is storeda class of mice.

Wheat was indeed the staff of life and of victory!

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.

Boy, do you know that wheat is the most important thing in the world to-day?" "You mean on account of the war," replied Kurt.

and wholesome's mine: The bottom-wheat is growin' fine, And God, o' mornin's, sends the dew, And sends his breath o' blessin', too.

26 Metaphors for  wheat