chaff

• A new age of persecution has arisen, and the church is about to be sifted, and the wheat separated from the chaff--the first to be gathered into the garners of God, the last to be burnt up in fire unquenchable. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
• He disguised indeed the effect in a cloud of chaff, a diversion that gained him time and covered his retreat. —  Embarrassments
• Remember the effect which it had upon him I falter where I firmly trod And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs Which slope through darkness up to God I stretch lame hands of faith and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all And faintly trust the larger hope It is the central mystery of mysteries--the problem of sin and suffering, the one huge difficulty which the reasoner has to solve in order to vindicate the dealings of God with man. —  A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
• Right education is right thinking and right thinking can only come through accurate information Now, is all this preaching of the men who are leading the farmers just so much talk?--chaff?--prairie wind If not, what lies back of it? —  Deep Furrows
• But the logic of the real reasons which convinced his own mind is, when the chaff is all winnowed away, as clear and bright as the golden grain In view of the great strategical project which Sherman had mapped out for himself and which required a formidable army, and of his responsibility for what might be the result of operations against Hood in Tennessee, it was a difficult and delicate question to decide what force he should take with him, and what send back. —  Forty-Six Years in the Army

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