wheat-straw

With his left band he dipped into his side pocket, brought out a loose wheat-straw paper and shifted it to his right hand close by the revolver.

To Kill a Man 2010

We rolled cigarettes from our state issue of Bugler and Virginia Extra tobacco and wheat-straw papers, and those who had sent off for the dollar-fifty rolling machines sold by a mail-order house in Memphis took out their Prince Albert cans of neatly glued and clipped cigarettes that were as good as tailor-mades.

The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

Bioconversion of wheat-straw cellulose/hemicellulose to ethanol by Saccharomyces uva rum and Pachysolen tannophilus.

3 Ethanol Production 1983

Avery bought a package of Virginia Extra and poured the tobacco into the wheat-straw paper.

Half of Paradise James Lee Burke 1965

The man took out one of the very thin yellow-brown wheat-straw papers and poured the tobacco neatly and rolled it into a cylinder between his thumb and fingers.

Half of Paradise James Lee Burke 1965

After I had sworn the men in the usual form, we went to his barn, took two bundles of wheat-straw, and, fastening them under the eaves with wisps, applied a lighted match to each.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

Dem wheat-straw mattresses was for grown folkses mostly 'cause nigh all de chillun slept on pallets.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Their distance from markets such as Taos affords, prevents them from transporting thither more than their small surplus of grain; but, as in this case, on thus finding many hungry horses and mules to feed, their corn-stalks and wheat-straw come into demand, and bring them in a remuneration in ready money, in sums which they have not even dreamed of before.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

Analyses of stable-manure, made respectively with peat-moss litter and wheat-straw 283

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Its percentage of nitrogen varies, of course; the recorded analyses [143] for wheat-straw ranging from .22 to .81 per cent, or furnishing an average of .48 per cent -- _i. e.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman