grains

• When at length they went away, in those long dark lines that looked like the flow of a thread-like stream, the grains were all piled up in high heaps, and the sad heart of Psyche knew not only thankful relief, but had a thrill of gladness Eros sent them to me:" she thought. —  A Book of Myths
• As soon as the birds had picked up all the grains, they flew to the house-top, and seemed to look down on Louisa as if they would say, "Cannot you give us a little more?" —  Ami des enfants. English
• Both principally live on fruit, grains, and insects, and only eat flesh from necessity, or some peculiarity of life, such as confinement, or education The Carnivora are divided by naturalists into three tribes, the characters for which are taken from their feet and manner of walking. —  Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
• The gold is found in dust, grains, and nuggets, the last varying from the size of a hickory-nut or larger to small grains of pure gold It quite often occurs that the bed-rock is seamy, with many small depressions. —  Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them
• Thus, in building parlance, the grains are the rubble of the wall, the currents the quarrymen, masons and laborers, and the silicious infiltration the mortar And now, when I am on the subject, I may point out that this hard and compact quartzite pebble was also once loose sand. —  The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890

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