They never enter into houses; are carried into ricks and barns with the sheaves, abound in harvest; and build their nests amidst the straws of the corn above the ground, and sometimes in thistles.
The blue, marsh, and great titmice will, in very severe weather, carry away barley and oat-straws from the sides of ricks.
Our best certainties are only straws thrown to the drowning--if we think as you do.
It matters not two straws to me whether I have you alive or dead, but have your corpus I will, as the prisoner of my bow and spear, as you would call it.
Who would give three straws for such a miserable little thing?
Each mouse climbed up a straw till it bent down with its weight, and then it bit off one of the ears, and carried it away, and there was not one of the straws that had not got a mouse to it.
In cyclones, straws are frequently found driven a little distance into trees; why are the straws not broken and crushed instead of being driven into the tree unbroken?
A slight depression in the ground, with perhaps a few straws for lining, suffices for a nest; it is sometimes placed amid a tuft of rushes or long grass.
No one would think of taking Tolly Tip's bunk when he generously offered it, and so straws were drawn for the remaining three, as well as the cot upon which Mr. Garrity slept when up at his Deer Head Lodge.
Tom Betts; "and those of us who draw the short straws can manage somehow with our blankets on the floor for one night, I guess.
I never cared two straws about her, and now I hate the sight of her.
The captains didn't care two straws what sort of passengers they took aboard so long as they had the cash and were willing to give a hand when they were wanted.
George worships the ground she treads on, and she can't make herself care twostraws about him.
The blood was pouring out of his neck, but he didn't seem to care two straws about it.
It was almost like giving her life for ours, and I don't think she'd have valued hers two straws if she could have saved us.
He dropped his hand toward his lap and came up with a group of the straws that had been cut, placed there somehow without our seeing it.
My God, we saw him juggle those straws to save Jenny!
The remaining group would have their straws measured, and the seven shortest ones would be chosen to remove themselves into a vacant section between hulls without air within three hours, or be forcibly placed there.
He would cut drinking straws to various lengths, and each would draw one.
This catching at straws of coincidence, where all is geometrical, seems the necessity of certain natures.
They make their nests of straws and grasses, lined with feathers, and lay four to six plain white eggs; size .
Their eggs are laid upon the ground in the vicinity of ponds or rivers; sometimes there is no lining and again a few straws or grasses may be twisted around the depression.
We'll pull straws for it and may the coarsest man win.
There were no straws at hand, but some matches served as well, and Walter proved to be the lucky one.
But he had dropped some straws into our tumblers, every one on 'em, I dare presume to say they had been a fillin' straw ticks.
The rest on 'em seemed to be more intent on the lemonade with 2 straws in 'em.
That made twice in one week or so, that I had found straws in my tumbler.
There wasn't anyone in the world who cared two straws for me till you came back and I came here.
There are not many things in history that I care two straws about, but I remembered that because the names made me think of a rhyme my old nurse used to say when she put me to bed.
You think wrong this time, though, if you fancy I care two straws about Frank, or Frank about me.
If I cared two straws for a fellow, and he did as you've done, I'd never speak to him again!
Outside, the nest has a very disorderly appearance, as there are always long straws and sometimes rags hanging down; the cavity is deeply lined with feathers, and is the hottest nest I know.
Don't suppose I care two straws about such things, myself.
All longed to, but they thought of the straws in the hair and the shrieks of the other frantic maniacs, and they could not do it.
Bend the long, stout broom-straws at one end, as in Fig.
Push two short straws into the bud in the places shown by the arrows in Z (Fig.
First cut short pieces of broom-straws for the legs and point them at both ends so that they will be easy to push into the peas and pods.
Sharpen each of these straws at one end and push the pointed end into the lower part of the body, two on each side, in the places shown by small rings on Fig.
They are stronger than broom-straws and all the same length.
Cut sharp points on the broom-straws to make them slide in easily.
Leave a large leaf with short stem loose at the back for a cape and run the bent ends of the long straws in and out of the leaves intended for the feet.
Put bits of broom-straw in for eyes and then cut four thickstraws like J, Fig.
Cut two more strong broom-straws a little longer than the distance between the radish and the tips of the two longest leaves.
Push three toothpicks, twigs, or broom-straws up into the centre of the flower, two in front and one at the back as you see them in Fig.
The broom-straws for the legs must be two and a half inches long and cut pointed at both ends, for one end of the leg is pushed into the lower part of the body bean and the other end into the half bean which is the foot.
For whiskers (all mice have whiskers) find two sprays of fine branching broom-straws (I, Fig.
Cut two broom-straws for the arms and two for the legs.
When you make your radish imp cut two broom-straws about four inches long for his arms; point these at the ends.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Straws show how the wind blows, and there are little signs that my son Captain De Stancy will return to Stancy Castle by the fortunate step of marrying its owner.
If you expect strawsto stop currents, you are sadly mistaken!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
