barley-corn

Then she went home and planted the barley-corn; immediately there grew out of it a large and beautiful flower, which looked like a tulip, but the petals were tightly closed as if it were still only a bud.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

Why takest thou not from each a barley-corn of silver

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

I needed no recorder of the inch and barley-corn growth of my life, while my unquiet thoughts created other divisions, than those ruled over by the planets — and, in looking back on the age that had elapsed since I had been alone, I disdained to give the name of days and hours to the throes of agony which had in truth portioned it out.

The Last Man 2003

‘Here is a barley-corn for you, but it’s not the kind the farmer sows in his field, or feeds the cocks and hens with, I can tell you.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

"You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."

Aesop's Fables Aesop 2000

He once saw the daughter of Nakdimon ben Gurion picking up a scanty nourishment of barley-corn from among the hoofs of the horses of the enemy.

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

The barley-corn has been personified as representing the malt liquor made from barley, as in Burns's song "John Barleycorn."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The guards are much larger than the common drivers, being about the length of a barley-corn, and armed with a pair of curved horns, like those of the large American black beetle, called "pinching bug."

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

"Ho!" said he, "you are a very fine thing, no doubt, to those who prize you; but give me a barley-corn before all the pearls in the world."

Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables Amusement for Good Little Children Unknown

"I mean this; I was coming home and heard some one calling for help, and ran to the dock and saw -- no, I couldn't _see_ a barley-corn before my nose -- but I knew somebody was down there, and without thinking --"

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand