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Four tonnes of hay and straw were also ablaze inside the barn, which was totally destroyed.
There were no rooming houses and although Mary offered to let him sleep in the supply room on the floor, he preferred the straw of the stable.
That horse lived out his life in comfort in a warm barn with more straw and oats than he could use.
The Devon landscape is now littered with foot and mouth warning signs and straw mats soaked in disinfectant.
It has terrific links to all sorts of things from architects and architecture to straw bale construction.
The company also uses recycled plastic, newsprint, cork, wheat straw and linoleum, a natural product of linseed.
Women sell everything from tomatoes, chillies and betel to clay coffee roasters and straw sleeping mats.
He was married to Judy, an apple-cheeked gardener in a straw hat who used to produce awful movies right alongside us.
He bent his head back to the powder and inhaled the line through the straw.
Our first night on the march, the General and his staff all climbed into a straw rick and passed a restful, if short, night.
Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric.
Each sister had their own cell, furnished with a plank bed and straw mattress, a three legged chair and a wooden cross.
Evidently that cheery bedside manner was left behind on a straw bale all those years ago.
Because wheat straw is expensive relative to its feeding value, ammoniation of straw is usually not economical.
If you're short of forage and wheat straw is available, give ammoniation a try.
It was topped with a nest of straw potatoes and drizzled with a mustard and yoghurt dip.
It could happen this time around, with four, five or six also-rans in each major league clutching at the last straw in the closing weeks.
The Iowa straw poll is just another example of the general lack of enthusiasm for the GOP field.
Almost 100 bales of silage wrap, eight bales of straw and a number of tyres were destroyed as the blaze spread to his property.
Traditional Hutu houses are huts made from wood, reeds, and straw and are shaped like beehives.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Going to the stable, I got a forkful of wet straw and carried it to my bonfire.
And near them long trains of burros laden with grain, alfalfa, straw, or wood.
The amontillado is of a straw colour only, more or less shaded according to the age it possesses.
If intended for poultry, the slips of bacon should not be thicker than a straw.
He gets some in the packing of nursery stock, crockery, baled hay and straw.
She heard and shivered, and looked at the bed of straw, and on the great canvas of the Barabbas.
He slept on a feather bed laid above a straw bed on the voyage, and was comfortably covered with a bedquilt.
Then, through the branches of the young pines, Boulotte's blue sun-bonnet appeared, and Boult's straw hat.
I wave it away for a second, at the same time planting my straw as before, a straw sticking out nearly a centimetre.
With all my eyes I watched my mistress build up a chimney pot of straw and things.
Then it was that the Chambertin or the clos Vougeot came in, slumbering in its straw cradle.
After the good-night to my neighbour, I tumbled into my straw and slept soundly, animal-like.
He tickles his ears with a straw, and while he is pleased with scratching it, picks his pocket, as the cutpurse served Bartl.
If the plants are well mulched with straw, salt hay, or any other litter, frequent watering is very beneficial.
I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma, no more does his mother.
By this means the straw is softened and reduced in bulk, so that a larger quantity can be added before the digester is quite full.
So they scampered all about, and there was not a mouse which did not look under every stalk of straw.
These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks.
To protect the young plants, the seedbed was usually covered with oak leaves, though straw was used occasionally.
She was pale, and droopy from the heat, but happily dressed in Liberty silk, with a plain turn-down straw hat.
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