It is an inflammable material, burning with a bright flame and having much the consistence and appearance of oat-cake, which, I am informed covers a considerable area.

The hens had not come out, though an open door had extended an invitation, and the tamworths had burrowed deeper into the stack of oat straw.

We'll open up an oat stack for them, anywayso if they come rampin' in in the middle of the night there'll be something ready.

When Lenore had crossed the oat-field she discovered a number of strange men lounging in the scant shade of a line of low trees that separated the fields.

1. Hot bran or oat mashes.

Take a peck of fine flour, half a peck of oat-meal, and mix it well together; put to it seven eggs well beat, three quarts of new milk, a little warm water, a pint of sack, and a pint of new yeast; mix all these well together, and let it stand to rise; then bake them.

"Don't let your sabres rattle and ring; To his oat-bag let each man give heed There now, that fellow's bag's untied, Sowing the road with the precious grain.

372, n. 1; lecture on experimental philosophy, v. 108; manufactures, ii. 464; oat ale and cakes, ii. 463; people sober and genteel, ii. 463; population in 1781, iii. 450; Prerogative Court, i. 81, 101; Sacheverell preaches there, i. 39, n. 1; Salve, magna parens, iv.

The yellowish-gray checks were stubble-fieldsthe remains of the oat-crop which had grown there the summer before.

The guard muffles Tom's feet up in straw, and puts an oat-sack over his knees, but it is not until after breakfast that his tongue is unloosed, and he rubs up his memory, and launches out into a graphic history of all the performances of the Rugby boys on the roads for the last twenty years.

Lawton led the way to a little oat shed standing at some distance from the house.

Quite genuine decadence this time, with nothing picturesque about it, involving doctors' bills, alimony, and other the fine crops of wild-oat sowing.

The forward stoop and recovery were marked by a rhythmic grace, and the crackle of the oat-stalks hinted at his strength.

On the road to Piraeus, mules and donkeys carried baskets full of olives and wine-grapes; behind them, in the red cloud of dust, marched herds of nannygoats, before each herd there was a white-bearded buck; on the sides, watchdogs; in the rear, shepherds, playing flutes of thin oat-stems.

" She went with him, knowing this was imprudent but unable to resist, and he threw an oat-stook against the bank and covered it with his coat.

All this was done with one horse, a compact small-boned animal, who was a good oats-eater, and of whom we took the very best care.

"Bo-oat ahoy!

The backwoods legislators lodged at this tavern or at some other, at the cost of fourpence a day, the board being a shilling for the man, and sixpence for his horse, if the horse only ate hay; a half pint of liquor or a gallon of oats cost sixpence.

" When they had prepared the oat bait, the two Wilder boys began to beat on the pans, calling Buster and the other ponies by name.

" McNutt selected a volume that had a broken corner and laid it carefully on the edge of the oat-bin.

It was observed, that he would not taste wheat-bread, or brandy, while oat-bread and whisky lasted; 'for these, said he, are my own country bread and drink.

He looks round him for an accompliceclever, unscrupulous, greedyand selects Mr. Edward Skinner, probably some former pal of his wild oats days.

Oat grains have been found among the remains of the lake-dwellers in Switzerland, and it is probable that this plant was cultivated by the prehistoric inhabitants of Central Europe.

Having completed observations at 2.10, steered 300 degrees along the foot of a range of trap hills; at 3.50 passed a dry salt lake on our right, and at 5.15 bivouacked on the side of a trap hill, among some fine oat-grass growing on calcareous tufa.

Let us reduce this number, and the farmer may then turn his oat-ground into wheat-ground; and instead of so much land being employed to furnish food for a thousand horses, the same land, when turned into tillage fit to sow wheat upon, will produce sufficient bread-corn to feed two thousand poor families.