Which preposition to use with wheat

in Occurrences 88%

It is true he sees milking, harvesting, sheep-shearing, and many other operations, but he often misses the stage between the actual beginning and the finished productbetween the wool on the sheep's back and his Sunday clothes, between the wheat in the field and his loaf of bread.

with Occurrences 55%

We've got some job to harvest that wheat with only half-force....

to Occurrences 32%

Would the woman in the small ménage in the country be wise in cutting down time given, for instance, to the care of her baby and to reading to the older children, and using the precious moments laboriously to grind wheat to flour?

from Occurrences 30%

The old Guinea man was winnowing wheat one day, with an old-fashioned fan (did any of you ever see one of these primitive machines for separating wheat from the chaff, used by our fathers before the fanning mill was invented?

of Occurrences 22%

"It is the wheat of Sidi Mahomet Adjille that we are taking."

for Occurrences 22%

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.

on Occurrences 19%

" The donkey-drivers came from Fas and from all countries, bringing wheat on mules and camels.

at Occurrences 13%

With wheat at eighty cents a cental, an' barley not wuth the haulin', it seems most an impertinence to ask grangers ter buy books.

into Occurrences 12%

When they began to be made is uncertain; but we may safely presume, that a simple form of pudding was amongst the first dishes made after discovering a mode of grinding wheat into flour.

per Occurrences 6%

A.Although this may be done, it is probably too much to say that it can be done on an average, and about three fourths of a quarter of wheat per horse power would probably be a nearer average.

by Occurrences 5%

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

than Occurrences 3%

"You will sow more wheat than ever, and harvest more, too.

between Occurrences 3%

The base of Sultan Dagh was girdled with groves of fruit-trees, stretching out in long lines on the plain, with fields of ripening wheat between.

as Occurrences 3%

How did he know he could guarantee so many bushels of wheat as the selling-price indicated?

without Occurrences 2%

If a farmer wished to ship a carload of wheat without putting it into a warehouse, how could he get a car?

amid Occurrences 2%

" He took up a yellow package of valueless obligations upon the top of which an old-fashioned locomotive from whose bell-shaped funnel the smoke poured in picturesque black clouds, dragging behind it a chain of funny little passenger coaches, drove furiously along beside a rushing river through fields rich with corn and wheat amid a border of dollar signs.

among Occurrences 2%

They were well aware that folks laughed at Janville over the folly of their attemptthat mad idea of growing wheat among the marshes of the plateau.

out Occurrences 2%

Suddenly Kurt espied a slender column of smoke rising above the wheat out in front of him toward the highway.

over Occurrences 2%

The recollection that it was his dagger that now confined them dispelled the chill which the irate philosopher had thrown over his glowing excitement; he submissively proposed a return to potatoes, piling up famine and wheat over the one little thought that diffused such a delicious warmth through his breast; as charcoal-burners heap dead ashes over their fire, to hide it from the rough intrusion of chilling winds.

through Occurrences 2%

I had heard of houses haunted by invisible animals; I had read De Kay's story of the maiden Manmat'ha, whose coming her lover perceived by the parting of the tall grain in the field of ripe wheat through which she passed, but whose form, although it might be folded in his arms, was yet as invisible to his sight as the summer air.

about Occurrences 2%

This expression must allude to the dress of Harvest, which has many ears of wheat about it in various parts.

during Occurrences 1%

The crop is grown in a few months in the summer, so that the land can produce another crop of corn or wheat during the rest of the year.

under Occurrences 1%

"The human heart," says Luther,and we can apply the remark as well, to the human mind,"is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns, and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in, it still grinds on, but then it is itself it grinds, and slowly wears away."

before Occurrences 1%

Wheat: how reaped and threshed, 51; Washington turns to cultivation of, 69; Washington rolls in spring, 95; his sales of before the Revolution, 96, 97; grinds into flour, 97; excellent quality of Washington's wheat before the Revolution, 99; experiments with Cape of Good Hope and Siberian, 105; opinion as to proper time for sowing, 106; acreage in 1787, 113.

within Occurrences 1%

It is even said that the growth on the mountains, which strictly speaking is only grass, grows taller than wheat within four days after it has been mown.

Which preposition to use with  wheat