Granaries

In the central part of the cave were a number of small structures, built of the same material and in a similar manner as those I described as granaries in Cave Valley. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

Our habitations were palaces our food was ready stored in granaries -- there was no need of labour, no inquisitiveness, no restless desire to get on. ❋ Unknown (1826)

"The Russian wheat will be in German granaries," he said softly, "the ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

Although in all the provinces rice is grown to a considerable extent, yet those which produce it best, and in greatest abundance, and form what may be called granaries for the others, which are not so suitable for that cultivation, may be considered to be Ylocos, Pangasinan, ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)

But he insisted on clambering down to each one in person, and as he decided that one of my granaries was a prison, and another a pot-making factory, and another a schoolroom for young priests, he naturally said he hadn't much reliance on my judgment, and would have to go through the whole lot himself. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)

Trade ramadas stood off to each side, and behind them several granaries had been built on high-stilted legs, their floors hopefully above flood stage. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

He said the need was all the more as there wasn't enough storage space in government granaries. ❋ Rajesh Roy (2011)

We should evacuate our towns, empty our granaries, or worse, burn them? ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

Having seen A Dangerous Method this morning, I slip out and head to the first Gucci Award for Women in Cinema dinner hosted by Frida Giannini in Cipriani's rustic barns that were previously ancient granaries, but are now donning elegant white Murano glass chandeliers. ❋ Peggy Siegal (2011)

Had we taken the steps you suggested—evacuate the towns, disperse the people, burn the granaries, send the warriors off in small parties to ambush the trails—it would have ended in disaster. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

Where there was innovation, enterprise and design in the past, so there can be again in the new uses that creative and imaginative developers are finding for industrial buildings, from factories, mills and granaries to engineering works and warehouses. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Maybe the chief died, his people in poor circumstances because of an early frost, corn blight, or a raid that had burned their granaries. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

For we had found the mud granaries filled with rice and millet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“But if we were to withdraw, leave them only vacant towns and empty granaries, perhaps we could keep them weak while we gather some kind of resistance.” ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

The spirits told Umhlakaza that to succeed in driving out the foreigners, his tribesman must kill every animal in their herds, and destroy every kernel of corn so carefully stored in their granaries. ❋ Jeff Schweitzer (2011)

We emptied the mud - granaries of their rice and millet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Work has already begun on the fortifications; excess food is being removed from the granaries and hidden in surrounding towns and in the forest for our use—with sufficient left in Mabila to feed the arriving warriors. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

More than three hundred people composed the procession; another couple thousand commoners were watching from the surrounding fields, granaries, and rooftops. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

Their granaries were overflowing with plenitude; yet they wanted to keep the sharp famine-edge of their love undulled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As we laid out the packs, we watched the local Toa finish emptying their high granaries. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)