...I don’t care two straws for music from an instrument—unless itbe the pipes or a regimental band—but I dearly love the human voice... 
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...This baffled him more than the lances; he crunched the shafts between his powerful jaws like straws, but he was beaten by the sand, and, shaking his huge head, he retreated to the river...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
... Their methods vary, some burrow in the ground, some in old wood, some in snail shells, some in bramble stems or straws or the hollow stems of various plants, some in holes or crevices in walls, etc...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...All loose straws sticking to the wool shouldbe picked off, and whatever dung may adhere to any of the feet brushedoff...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...The nest itself consistsof straws of grass and feathers, and is placed in the terminal chamber...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The neckof the calabash is pierced, in the direction of its axis, with a tinychannel which would admit at most the slenderest of straws...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...A few straws borne on the waters stop and become so many shaky bridges on which the Ants climb...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...The Bee picks it out and throws it away at a distance, as she did with the straws just now...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...Where straws and cords are to be limed it should be very hot, andafter they are prepared they should be kept in a leather bag tillused...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...The straws were, however, soon removed withoutinterruption to the gaiety of the evening...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...They say drowning men catch at straws...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
...Having done this, she droppedthe empty shells over the side of the nest, togetherwith any straws that had become soiled in the process,cleaned her bill, and proceeded with her incubation...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...They are then easily split up into flattish straws, and become acolour varying from rather bright yellow to brown...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...Additionaleffects are produced by covering certain portions of the filamentswith straws of distinct color, all being woven in with the fabric...
William H. Holmes 「A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament」
..."Get straws, Lieutenant, andwe'll draw...
Sterner St. Paul Meek 「The Solar Magnet」
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