Even grains of sand hang together through the space in which they are embedded, and if you can in any way move through such space, you can pass continuously from number one of them to number two.
In other words, do the parts of our universe HANG together, instead of being like detached grains of sand?
The spindle of the figure must either be so made as to hold grain, or, what is better, some grains of wheat or buckwheat are strung over a strong thread with the aid of a needle, and tied to the spindle.
After scattering a few grainsof corn about and placing about a dozen of these limed brown-paper funnels in a likely manner, I retired to a distance, and with my field-glass watched.
Of divisions between garden-beds and fields, that the produce of the several sorts of grains or seeds may appear distinct.
They are not, indeed, materials for the historian, and they must be taken withgrains of allowance.
I could only give her the letter she wanted, trusting you to discount any commendatory phrases it might contain, in the light of your acquaintance with the ways of a world in which letters of introduction are taken with grains of salt.
The soil is fertile and very productive in grains and grasses.
Attentive observers of agricultural production have remarked, that the different grains produced most on the northern edge of the belt, in which they will grow at all.
Their gold and silver, their diamonds and pearls, are little white grains of porcelain which do not seem to amount to much.
Myriads upon myriads of pollen-grains (each an elaborate organic structure) are wastefully dispersed by the winds to one which reaches a female flower and fertilizes a seed.
The method of determining the soluble cotton now used in the Government laboratories is as follows:--Fifty grains of the nitro-cotton are dissolved in 150 c.
It is a powder somewhat lighter in gravity; 33 grains occupies the bulk charge, as compared with the 42 grainsof the old.
The grains are then dried and moistened with ether-alcohol, whereby the moisture is gelatinised, and afterwards coloured with aurine, which gives them an orange colour.
They are then dried and put through a sieve, in order to separate the grains which may have stuck together during the gelatinising process.
The mixture is stirred, heated to boiling, and kept gently boiling for ten minutes; 15 grains (1 grm.
A large cap is necessary, as the grains of this powder are very hard, and require a large flame to properly ignite them.
It is claimed for this powder that it is quick of ignition, the quickness being probably due to the peculiar structure of the grains which, when looked at under the microscope, have the appearance of coke.
The dry sand beneath the house was covered with the pits of ant-lions, and as we watched them month after month, they seemed to have more in common with the grains of quartz which composed their cosmos than with the organic world.
At Maglemose we find pine charcoal but oak pollengrains in layers apparently of the same age as the settlement.
No remains of other domesticated animals have been found, nor of cultivated plants, except a few casts of grains of wheat in the pottery of the upper layers of some of the heaps.
If there were any patches of richly seeded grasses or grains on the near-by glade or hill, we may be sure that the woman did not fail to beat off the ripe seed with a stick, and carry it home with her.
Bread was made only of wheat and millet, the latter with the addition of some grains of wheat, and, for the sake of flavoring it, with linseed also.
No oak was found here, but oak-pollen grains were found in the same level as the settlement, or slightly higher and later.
The grains seem to show a gradual improvement in productiveness from the very oldest settlements to those of the Bronze period.
I found out from a druggist that the woman had taken sevengrains of morphine.
The average quantity to begin with for a child of ten or twelve years has been twenty grains thrice daily.
If, on the other hand, the attacks were not materially diminished in frequency, the dose was immediately increased by ten grains at a time till the paroxysms were arrested.
The minimum quantity for an adult, to begin with, was thirty grains three times a day, the first dose half an hour before rising in the morning, the second in the middle of the day on an empty stomach, and the third at bedtime.
G] The usual prescription contained the bromides of potassium and ammonium, fifteen grains of each for a dose.
Bathed in the splendour of the atmosphere it brings forth its fruit, consisting of grains and nuggets.
When the Spaniards first arrived, all these roots and grains and maize, as well as various other kinds of fruit trees were cultivated.
Yucca, maize bread, and wine made from grains and fruits, are the same as at Comogra or amongst the other continental and insular tribes.
A hole a palm and a half in size was made, and from the earth sifted a few grains of gold, not larger than a lentil, were obtained.
One old man only asked a little bell in return for two grains of gold weighing an ounce.
To one unheard-of-thing people have certified upon oath; that the ears are as thick round as a man's arm and one palm in length, and that some of them contain as many as a thousand grains of wheat.
These grains and nuggets are afterwards washed away by the heavy rains and swept down the mountain, like all heavy bodies, to be disseminated throughout the entire island.
They extracted the grainsof gold, which they afterwards presented to the Spaniards.
Moreover, the Spaniards never weary of repeating, as a proof of the wealth they dream of, that by just scratching the earth almost anywhere, grains of gold are found.
He added that it was true enough that here and there some small grains of gold had been found, but nobody had even troubled to pick them up, since to do so would require tedious labour.
The root of the golden tree seems always to reach down towards the centre of the earth, growing always larger; for the deeper one digs in the bowels of the mountain the larger are the grains of gold unearthed.
In Africa, they tell us a story, people used from time to time to find little grains of gold in a sandpit, which they had to deliver up to the poor black king as his property.
They also fed largely on cereals, which they cultivated with success; and wheat, the grains of which were very small, was known to them.
Every where we find vessels of coarse material mixed with grains of sand or mica to give more consistency to the paste which was baked in the fire, and had often no further ornamentation than the marks of the fingers of the potter.
The pulp is of a reddish yellow, and the seeds, which are about the size of grains of pepper, have a hot taste like cresses.
I had some assayed which was two carats three grains worse than standard, and contained an alloy of silver, but not in a proportion to be affected by the acids.
The holes to be made either by the common dibble, or with an implement having four or more points in a frame, at the distance of about four inches every way, and to the depth of an inch and a half; dropping TWO grains into every hole.
They carry their gold about them, wrapped in small pieces of bladder (or rather the integument of the heart), and often make purchases to so small an amount as to employ grains of padi or other seeds for weights.
In this situation it becomes black and shrivelled, as we see it in Europe, and as it dries is hand-rubbed occasionally to separate the grains from the stalk.
But it has lost in some measure that advantage since it has been known that the secret depended merely upon the art of blanching the grains of the other sort, by depriving it of the exterior pellicle.
For this purpose the ripest red grains are picked out and put in baskets to steep, either in running water (which is preferred), in pits dug for the occasion near the banks of rivers, or in stagnant pools.
With the few grains of allowance which his situation required, Dryden's praise of Halifax is an honest panegyric.
Among the innumerable details of the shop you note a little rat gnawing at the grains which have fallen through a hole in one of the sacks.
Beat an egg, add 1/2 a cup of milk, and a few grains of salt; pour the mixture over the bread and meat.
Strain and add the infusion slowly to 1/3 of a cup of sugar, mixed with 3/4 of a tablespoonful of arrowroot and a few grains of salt.
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.
It is these starch grains which form many of those bright specks that we see dancing in a ray of light sometimes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
