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Letter "W" » wheat
«And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?»
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blossoms,
cotton,
gulf,
Gulf stream,
imperial,
Lullabies,
lullaby,
murmur,
murmurs,
release,
run across,
sea level,
The Imperial,
toward the sea,
valley,
watermelon,
watermelons,
wheat
«An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.»
«Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: / But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.»
«And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.»
«And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; / John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: / Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
baptize,
baptizing,
chaff,
fan,
garner,
garnering,
garners,
ghost,
Holy Ghost,
holy water,
mightier,
mused,
purge,
purges,
purging,
unloose,
unquenchable,
wheat
«And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.»
«And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.»
«And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.»
«And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail: / That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.»
«[He] speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.»