...In fact, the first cornfield sown with a single grain had prosperedadmirably, thanks to Pencroft's care... 
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
... Carpæan dance: perhaps because one of the dancersrepresented a sower of grain (from karpos, fruit), or possibly fromkarpos, wrist, the wrists of one being bound...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
..."'Tis anold book," replied the curate, "and I can think of nothing inhim that deserves a grain of pity: away with him, without anymore words;" and down he went accordingly...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...“Oh, the wisdom of man! Oh, millstone that grinds the world! and which is one day stopped by a grain of sand which has fallen, no one knows how, between its wheels...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... He could not conceive of thepossibility of apparently having passed through such a weird adventurein which there was no grain of truth...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...He was even at this moment deeply engaged in flicking off a grain of dust from the immaculate Mechlin ruff at his wrist...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...The soil is of a reddish color, and very fertile, as is attested by the great quantity of grain raised annually by the Banyeti...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Naliele, the capital of the Barotse, is built on a mound which was constructed artificially by Santuru, and was his store-house for grain...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...But here the Banyeti have fine gardens, and raise great quantities of maize, millet, and native corn ('Holcus sorghum'), of large grain and beautifully white...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I succeeded in getting the Makololo to treat the messengers of Masiko well, though, as they regarded them as rebels, it was somewhat against the grain at first to speak civilly to them...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...A few tusks of ivory, and about fifty slaves, besides an abundance of grain, composed the "loot," which fell to the lot of the Arabs...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...With the improvidence usual with the gluttons, they had eaten their rations of grain, all their store of zebra and dried buffalo meat, and were now crying out that they were famished...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
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