Truly Rosei's dream of fifty years' glory That he dreamed at Kantan on lent pillow propped Was dreamed while millet cooked, as yonder dish now.
Ambition, length of days, Revels and kingly rule, All, all has ended thus, all was a dream Dreamed while the millet cooked.
Long ago when I was in the World I knew nothing of this stuff called millet but what I read of it in poems and songs.
Awaking from his dream, the young man discovers that the millet is not yet cooked.
And I meanwhile will heat you some millet at the fire.
Nature says, here is a piece of ochre and some iron rust; Millet answers, let the colors become an Angelus.
Millet explained his fame by saying he copied the colors of the sunset at the moment when reapers bow the head in silent prayer.
Millet described his career as ten years of daubing, ten years of drudgery, ten years of despair and ten years of liberty and success.
But the field and wood sparrows, the larks and finches, blackbirds and green finches had picked up the millet long ago, and the girl could not find her way.
The land produces millet and borona, but no rice, for all the island has poor soil notwithstanding that it is level.
The island of Çubu produces a small quantity of rice, borona, and millet and little or no cotton; for the cloth which the natives use for their garments is made from a kind of banana.
In the village great joy also reigned, and the negroes passed the whole night in dancing and drinking beer of millet and palm wine.
From a distance came the hollow sounds of drums and the shouts and songs of warriors who evidently were not sparing in their indulgence of pombe,* [* A beer of millet with which the negroes intoxicate themselves.
Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies.
Defn: Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.
Wild millet, or Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tail grass growing in woods.
Defn: A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.
Aimé-Millet and of Professors Guillaume and Cavelier, and the fact that they are professors.
Of the noblest of all so-called "schools," Millet is perhaps the most popular member.
Millet was certainly an original genius, if there ever was one.
A literary, and a very powerful literary side, Millet undoubtedly has; and instead of being a weakness in him it is a power.
Take not many clothes with you: a shirt and a couple of pairs of trousers to each Cossack, and a pot of oatmeal and millet apiece--let no one take any more.
I would have to tell you of the sweet potato, and the tomato, of the pumpkin, of the millet that was discovered by the fowls, and of the palm oil-nut that was discovered by the dog.
In the first three days, after crossing the Danube into Bulgaria, Millet went about with book in hand, gathering in the names of things at which he pointed, and jotting down each acquisition in the book.
A landowner I chatted with in the train showed me that it was a serious matter to receive the distinction of growing the millet for use at the Coronation.
I saw patches of millet and sweet potato which from the road seemed almost inaccessible.
The heads of millet and the threshed grain of other upland crops were drying on mats by the roadside, for in the areas where land is so much in demand there is no other space available.
The seeds in the handsome heavy ears of millet are about the size of the letter O in the footnote type of this book.
In other factories the staple food is poor, the rice being mixed with cheaper barley, millet or sweet potato in the proportion of from 20 to 50 per cent.
The procedure was to sow buckwheat the first year and rape and millet the second year.
And some who once ate a good deal of millet and hiye are now eating a certain amount of rice.
He will find that one chick has eaten almost exclusively of millet seed, another has preferred cracked corn, another has filled up heavily on bits of beef scrap and mica crystal grit, while a fourth fancied oats and granulated bone.
If there is no way of grinding corn on the farm, oatmeal, millet seed and corn chop can be purchased.
Lois was fastening the last bunch of millet stalks to a branch hanging just above her head.
It was to postpone as long as possible the moment for turning around that Lois worked unnecessarily at the fastening of her millet stalks.
Taking a bunch of millet stalks from her basket, she directed Thor while he tied them to the bough of a birch that trailed its lower branches to the snow.
Ruth's eyes grew a little more wide open as she heard this, for she thought that poor little Richard Millet seemed to be left to talk to her more than he liked.
Lady Millet sighed and wiped her eyes, but no one paid any heed to her, so she consoled her injured feelings with a good breakfast.
Richard Millet did not see it for the moment, but as soon as it caught his eye he impulsively dashed from his seat, picked it up, and ran a few steps after the little party.
Very kind of Lady Millet to ask me, but I'm not a society man.
Dick Millet became quite the military officer as he reached the police-station with his father, and proved that, if he possessed a very small body, it contained plenty of soul.
He indicated Clotilde, about whom Dick Millet was now hovering; but who had turned from him to listen to a remark just made by Glen.
At sunrise we reached Wadi Bishara, a valley extending here to a breadth of about three miles, which is sown in the rainy season with millet by the Jaalin tribes who live along the Nile.
Among the Winamwanga, a tribe of north-eastern Rhodesia, between Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika, it is customary to offer the first beer and the first flour made from the new harvest of millet to the spirits of the dead.
Therefore before millet is pounded and made into cakes for general eating, the old men have a few made for themselves first to worship.
When themillet is ripe, the Nubas of Jebel-Nuba, a range of mountains in the eastern Sudan, observe the following ceremony.
When the mirth was at its height two young Aino, who had let the bear out of his cage, mounted the roof of the hut and threw cakes of millet among the company, who all scrambled for them without distinction of age or sex.
Similarly, among the Suk, a tribe of British East Africa, no one may partake of meat and milk on the same day, and if he has chewed raw millet he is forbidden to drink milk for seven days.
At the races the young folk amuse themselves by flinging stalks of millet before the horses to make them shy and throw their riders.
There was no real plough yet; hoes and hoe-like implements were used, and the grain, mainly different kinds of millet and some wheat, was harvested with sickles.
The millet was standing high, and as frequently a large extent of this grain had to be cut down to make a clearance for a camping–ground, there was abundant fodder to supply all the demands.
My objective point in France was the study of Millet and his work.
In Gruchy Millet was born; in Greville he first came into contact with incentive--I photographed both places and spent a night and a day with M.
I followed the footsteps of Millet from one place to another.
From Cherbourg I went to Barbizon, whereMillet spent the latter part of his life.
If you will give me one of those nice millet dumplings of yours, I will go with you," said the dog.
Pray, then, make me somemillet dumplings for my journey.
The rice which they cultivate is to them an almost unknown luxury: millet is their staple food, and on high days and holidays they receive messes of barley or buckwheat.
Little Peachling answered as before; and the pheasant, having begged and obtained a millet dumpling, entered his service, and followed him.
I'm carrying the very best millet dumplings in all Japan.
Indian millet before the god, bow to him and go home.
Next day the mourning family, both men and women, visit Parasnath's temple, lay two pounds of Indian millet before the god and go home.
When the ovens are made with the sacred earth they roast some of the large millet juari [336] for the family feast, calling this Juari Mata or the grain goddess.
Two to two and one half bushels of oats or barley and one to one and one half bushels of millet to the acre are necessary for a good seeding.
Barley, oats, and millet are not as good crops as the foregoing, because, with the possible exception of millet, they make their best growth early in the season.
The visitors went next to the pounding-machine, where my grandfather took a handful of millet from the mortar.
He visited the young oats and millet and all the spring-sown crops, and then went to the fallow, where he ordered his car to be driven backwards and forwards over the field.
One cave was filled with millet stems and oat-straw.
There remained very little meal or millet in our store bags, when we learned, from a Tartar whom we met on the way, that we were at no great distance from a trading station called Chaborte (Slough.
The millet and oats strewn around profusely, induced them to remain.
Teff is a kind of millet with grains about the size of an ordinary pin-head, of which is made the bread commonly eaten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "millet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
