Corn Sieve

Gunnar had gone away from home out of his house all alone; and he had a corn-sieve in one hand, but in the other a hand-axe. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He took his corn-sieve, and had his sword in his other hand, and walks towards the fence, and sows the corn as he goes. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The latter interpretation is supported by the tale that Isis placed the severed limbs of Osiris on a corn-sieve. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Especially with those who aspire to write fiction (which, by its intrinsic attractiveness no less than by the promise it affords of golden grain, tempts the majority), it is quite pitiful to note how they cling to that notion of 'the corn-sieve,' and cannot be persuaded that story-telling requires an apprenticeship like any other calling. ❋ James Payn (1864)

They pictured him, he says, as a radiant personage whose whole time is devoted to idleness and pastime; who keeps a prolific mind in a sort of corn-sieve and lightly shakes a bushel of it out sometimes in an odd half-hour after breakfast. ❋ James Payn (1864)