When Fred heard footsteps coming he hid the book behind him on the chair, and when Christian thrust the key of the granary into his hand, he left the book lying on the chair and went away with the groom.
Mam Patch-Waist counts more eggs than four--she knows Spring wenches' whifts let loose to sniff the night; So straightway to the granary Mease she sped To oil the lock and drive a staple in.
Girls, those apples Will all be basketed before their time, Ere threshing heaps the granary once more And sharp nights make her yield our loft again Because she finds us cuddled on its threshold.
The granary yielded a pair of fanners, half a dozen riddles, measures for corn, a pile of sacks, and some ancient flails.
It's no sae bad a granary if we hedna tae keep the horses' hay in it, for want o' a richt loft.
The husked corn filled the cribs to bursting, the wheat lay in yellow heaps on the granary floor, and the hay, stacked high, stood along the north side of the low, sod barn in a sheltering crescent.
Finally, when he judged that enough time had passed to warrant it, he made a wider search that brought him close to thegranary door.
A Granary standing in a corner between the narrow way called Bellezeterslane on the East, and the Tenement of Philip Page on the West, 8s.
An alarm being given, Ballard and his keepers pursued the lioness to a granary in a farm-yard, where she ran underneath the building, and was there barricaded in to prevent her escape.
The lioness was afterwards easily enticed from beneath thegranary by the keepers, and taken back to her cage.
It exploits the dried and gathered crop in the granary or the storehouse.
For these reasons the granary knows no final multiplication on the part of the despoiler.
Should she become exceedingly angry, she diminishes the supply of rice either by removing it from the granary or by making the soil unproductive.
The brother, who witnessed the tragedy, did not stop at trifles but at once cast himself after her into the depths of the ocean, stopping, by a strange coincidence, at the very same rice granary as his fugitive sister and spouse.
The door of this public granary was secured in a manner which demonstrated to perfection the naive simplicity of these folk.
A theft of rice from the public granary is punished by enslavement, for rice is the staple food and an indispensable necessity to the whole group.
His hands were empty, but not his heart, and there sleeps no richer man in the Granary burying ground than he.
On that day the graves of Josiah and Abiah Franklin in the Granary burying ground were covered with evergreens and flowers, and we hope that the grave of Uncle Ben, the poet, which is near by, was not forgotten.
He sleeps now at the side of the Franklin monument in the Granary burying ground, and we like to cast a kindly glance that way as we pass the Park Street Church on Tremont Street, on the west side.
Franklin went to the Granary burying ground, where the old man slept.
You'll find some wheat in the granary to give the kids a merry Christmas with,' signed, 'Santa Claus.
The granary door was pried open and the wheat shovelled hurriedly in upon the empty floor.
If they got into that granary they'd have to take a lantern along to find a pint of wheat.
Ay tank ve put on dose extra side poards and make her an even fifty pushel," said Nels, after they had backed the wagon up to the granary door.
And dumb it on Roney's granary floor to-night after dere been asleeb.
I managed to get to the granary for some oats, but on looking into the ravine no stable was to be seen, only an immense snow drift which almost filled it.
After a reasonably edible supper, Mr. Gilman and I were escorted to the saloon and informed that we could repose and possibly sleep in the aisle which divided it from the granary which was filled with oats.
The landowner prayed Amon to watch over his granary and cow-house, the thief stretched his hands heavenward so that he might lead forth another man's cow without hindrance, and fill his own bags from another man's harvest.
Wisdom teaches that the body of a man is like a granaryfull of various objects.
Before a granary one scribe was receiving grain from earth- tillers; before the stable another scribe was receiving reckoning from the overseer of the shepherds.
The Phoenician proverb says: 'Better barley in the granary than gold in the desert.
Two years more of fighting sufficed to conquer the granary of the Roman Empire; and in February, 641, when Heraclius died, the single port of Alexandria was the sole remaining possession of the Romans in Egypt.
Egypt, the granary of the empire, had been lost in 616, and the supply of government corn entirely cut off, so that the dole would have had to be provided by the treasury buying corn, a ruinously expensive task.
By way of the ivy the flames had risen to the upper story, and finding there a granary filled with straw had rushed upon it; and that entire granary was now on fire, the flames merrily dancing.
The library and the granary were advantageous to the besiegers rather than to the besieged, since the contents of both are of a combustible nature.
Perhaps his own cradle was stored away in some corner of the granaryover the library.
He was buried in the Granary burial ground, where many other patriotic citizens of Boston are also interred.
Many holes were dug directly down to the granary where the stores were scattered about; and others descended upon the pocket in which the chipmunk was asleep.
Early one autumn morning a coyote, in attempting to reach her, dug into her granary and scattered the nuts about.
Avel-ilu has opened the granary and taken the grain.
He was buried in the Old Granary Burying-Ground, on Tremont Street, and only a step from his grave sleeps his friend Samuel Adams.
After several bloody battles, the fate of Gustavus Adolphus appeared inevitable; when, to avoid falling under the yoke of Russia, he entered into a convention which virtually left the granary of Sweden in the hands of his conqueror.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "granary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crib; garner; hayloft; silo
