Where is the axe that was to be laid at the root of the trees, or the fan that was to winnow out the chaff?
To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.
Winnow well this thought, and you shall find This light as chaff that flies before the wind.
We are the whirlwinds that winnow the West-- We scatter the wicked like straw!
Winnow, not the Winnow of the Fowey river, but another, a brother of S.
That Winnowshould have been forced to leave Cornwall after his father had addressed the king in such forcible but inelegant terms as "Tyrannical whelp of the unclean lioness of Dumnonia," is not surprising.
Within this defensive work Winnowconstituted his establishment, built a church, and erected a number of beehive cells.
One day Winnow went to Quimperle, where some building was in progress.
M5) At first sight this symbolism might be explained very simply and naturally by supposing that the divine infant cradled in the winnowing-fan was identified with the corn which it is the function of the instrument to winnow and sift.
The winged years, that winnow praise and blame, Blow many names out: they but fan to flame 120 The self-renewing splendors of thy fame.
Perhaps it was; for if the Romans had begun to winnow grain, they might have learned to winnow other things besides grain.
On the wings of shrift and prayer, Pure as winds that winnow snow, Her soul had risen twelve hours ago.
Then shall the lagging righteousness ensue, The powers at last be equal in the scales, And the man's club and the beast's claw be flails To winnow the unworthy of the two.
If it does not winnow us all into chaff," returned the young fellow, with a touch of grim humor.
It will winnow the chaff from the wheat pretty well.
At that time it was said to this people and to Jerusalem, A wind off the blaze of the bare desert heights, Straight on the Daughter of my people, Neither to winnow nor to sift, In full blast it meets me.
Wind off the glow of the bare desert heights, Direct on my people, Neither to winnow nor to sift, In full blast it meets me.
Here are some of them:— Wind off the glow of the bare desert heights, Right on the Daughter of My people, It is neither to winnow nor to cleanse, In full blast it meets me.
Wer't nae for thy girning face I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal!
Note the coarse-grained light and dark gravel in winnow row in the foreground and the light-colored clay or ooze bottom in background.
Note winnow row of dark and light gravel-sized detritus which resembles similar material on the Rift Mountains shown in Figure 1 of Plate 19.
I winnow him; and if nothing but chaff results, whose fault is that?
Free as the winds that winnow Her shrubless hills of sand, Free as the waves that batter Along her yielding land.
What we lack in our work may He find in our will, And winnow in mercy our good from the ill!
Who, as my hair, my thoughts too shed, And winnow from the chaff my head.
If a young man or single woman go to the barn three times to winnow corn, an apparition resembling the future spouse will appear before the chaff is separated from the third sieveful of grain.
I can winnow a little faster next time, because I shall take something along to winnow upon, if it is only a clean handkerchief.
The steward brings the servants, both men and women, by one at a time, covered with a winnow sheet, and lays their right hand on the loaf, exposing no other part of the body.
Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually.
Thou mayest as well winnow forth and measure the ocean with a sieve, as mete out the power of holy words, deeds, and signs, by the erring gauge of thine own reason.
The dinner being prepared, an ordinary winnow is set out in the middle of the floor and on it are placed cooked rice and, when obtainable, bananas.
Has He not used the fan to winnow the wheat, and the fire to burn up the chaff?
When they complimented him on his teaching, he told them that He who would winnowthe wheat from the chaff was yet to appear.
He had announced the Husbandman with his fan to thoroughly winnow his floor; the Baptist with his fire; the Lamb of God, holy, harmless, and separate from sinners.
Some day He will gird on his sword; some day He will winnow his floor; some day He will ride in a chariot of flame; some day He will sit upon the throne and judge those who oppress the innocent and take advantage of the poor.
