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Thor's glances strayed unto a maid with hair as gold as grain,
stormtiger Diary Entry stormtiger 2008
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With reference to Pam Scully's work, Lalu has cautioned that reading against the grain,
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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He sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain,
December 2002 Halley Suitt 2002
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The amount of the leading goods exported in 1855 was: — Bales of wool, 6,410; almonds, 200 serons; grain,
Travels in Morocco 2003
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If I had a piece of Silky Oak, with even-textured grain,
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With his keel he marks the grading, marks it down for knot and grain,
The Greenchain Song 1996
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Onward, o'er fair Virginia's fields, through ranks of nodding grain,
War Poetry of the South Various
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And it shall be as when a harvester gathers standing grain,
Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) Isaac Landman
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They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain,
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various
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To make the rugged places smooth, and sow the vales with grain,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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