"barleycorn" pseudomorphs of calcium carbonate after celestite from. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
B. -- "No, believe me, I am right; twelve feet, and three inches to a barleycorn.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831] Reference
"When you speak in that tone you make me wish myself a barleycorn," says Tedcastle, smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
A thief said to a mendicant: "Are you not ashamed when you hold forth your hand to every mean fellow for a barleycorn of silver?". From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
Asclepiades, that it is performed from the excellent quality of the sperm, after the manner that from the root of one barleycorn two or three stalks do grow; sperm that is of this quality is the most prolific. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
And they answered, 'What sayest thou to the peeled barleycorn?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference
In all people I see myselfnone more, and not one a barleycorn less. From Wordnik.com. [Walt Whitman] Reference
"Thank you," said the woman, and she gave the fairy twelve shillings, which was the price of the barleycorn. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
Sir Melville hath not yet crossed the drawbridge of the castle, albeit it lacketh now but the length of a barleycorn till the tenth hour. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
Quoth he, 'This is the mule Break-all, that browses on the basil of the dykes and gobbles up the peeled barleycorn and lies by night in the khan of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference
Some say the Schamir´ was a worm; some that it was a stone; some that it was “a creature no bigger than a barleycorn, which nothing could resist.”. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
"Here is a barleycorn of a different kind to those which grow in the farmer's fields, and which the chickens eat; put it into a flower-pot, and see what will happen.". From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
And, my brethren, what merit is gathered by hiding the truth from an old man, for such concealments are separated from falsehoods but by the length of a single barleycorn. From Wordnik.com. [Ayesha, the Return of She] Reference
A pace was a Roman's full stride (about a metre and a half), a barleycorn was a third of an inch (8.5 millimetres) and a chain 22 yards (about 20 metres and incidentally the distance between the stumps in cricket). From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
Spectators, commends the judgement of a King, who, as a suitable reward to a man that by long perseverance had attained to the art of throwing a barleycorn through the eye of a needle, gave him a bushel of barley. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
These girls brought silver bowls containing wine mixed with honey, and they brought pomegranates and eggs and barleycorn, and triangular red-colored loaves, whereon they sprinkled sweet-smelling little seeds with formal gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
But no; the little pigs would go out into the world, whether or no; "for," said they, "if we stay at home because folks shake their heads, we will never get the best acorns that are to be had;" and there was more than one barleycorn of truth in that chaff, I can tell you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Clock] Reference
Luckily the good dwarf who in his youth had served his term of apprenticeship at the court of King Gambrinus and was therefore master of the noble craft of brewing kindly taught my forefathers to brew a foaming draught from the malt of barleycorn, which thereafter they drank instead of water. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales] Reference
And the weight of a prutah is half a barleycorn. ". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
A perfect bird should resemble a cherry with a barleycorn stuck in it. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Do he use wings or ride a barleycorn broom?” asked Pete, with a triumphant smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wolf Pack] Reference
But as for me, I would choose a single grain of barleycorn before all the jewels in the world. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter] Reference
I am but a barleycorn less in stature than her Most Excellent Majesty, and your lordship is yards taller than myself. ". From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
A female of inferior stature, since she was but one barleycorn less in height than Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Strange things are said of what Llangollen ale made people do of yore; and I remember that when I was young and could drink ale, two or three glasses of the Llangollen juice of the barleycorn would make me — however, those times are gone by.”. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
Without a little barleycorn. From Wordnik.com. [Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die] Reference
Lil Davy Corn barleycorn must die. From Wordnik.com. [Where Are You, Angry Left?] Reference
I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world. ". From Wordnik.com. [Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources] Reference
Redcap's mightiest is weaker than I drank last night, by a bushel to a barleycorn -- I have quaffed the very elixir of malt -- Ha -- yaw. ". From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
And spar about a barleycorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
Quoth he, 'The peeled barleycorn.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference
Don't give way by half a barleycorn. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
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