straw

• The pleasure of watching G inhale the hot chocolate through the straw was as intense as it was brief.
• They ran in and found that the lantern had fallen down, and that the straw was all in a blaze. —  Napoleon Bonaparte
• He had not a scrap of furniture; the straw was all burned, and the floor of his prison was stone Still there was one good thing upon his side--one which afforded Hilary the most intense satisfaction, and this was the fact that he had secured the cutlass. —  In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
• I am the more confirmed in the opinion that ammoniacal manures are unfavourable for wheat, by a series of articles in the "Gardener's Chronicle" on the "Geo-Agriculture of Middlesex," in which the writer states that land in that county which in Queen Elizabeth's time produced such good wheat that it was reserved for her especial use, will now scarcely grow wheat at all, and when that grain is sowed upon it, the straw is always mildewed, and the sample very poor; and this is attributed--and no doubt justly so--to the extensive use of London manure. —  Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
• "It's just another case of a last straw You honestly mean that the ancestors of the straw are the sunsets, the disorder here--the--the--" He thumped the table. —  Kenny

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