Halm

Word HALM
Character 4
Hyphenation halm
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "halm" in example sentences

Ai think EBREEwun heer wud want to halm yoo – but waht do yoo need to know? ❋ Unknown (2008)

He distributes a multitude of straws, which he inserts to stick out in different places, so that the halm may remind him of what his memory cannot retain. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It will now be necessary to wrap up the bed with straw, pea-halm, or hay, about eighteen inches wide at the bottom, drawing it in gradually to a foot wide, within three inches of the top of the box. ❋ Thomas Watkins (N/A)

If there is an insufficiency of dung, you can add a foot of dry rubbish, such as strawberry or asparagus halm, or any other loose stuff. ❋ Thomas Watkins (N/A)

Let it be about three feet nine inches at the back by three feet six inches in the front; should there, however, happen to be a scarcity of dung, a foot of strawberry or asparagus halm, fagots, or pieces of wood, or, indeed, some of each, may be added at the bottom of the bed. ❋ Thomas Watkins (N/A)

Faith! she sat as straught as a rash, wi 'jist a hing i' the heid o 'her, like the heid o' a halm o 'wild aits.' ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Mitt på golvet -- med halm var det strött -- brann lågan beständigt 40 glatt på sin murade häll, och igenom det luftiga rökfång blickade stjärnorna in, de himmelska vänner, i salen. ❋ Esaias Tegn��r (1814)

Thus, in meditations more moral than amusing, Orlando passed two or three tedious hours, sheltered by pease halm and straw, which he gathered around him, and leaning against the boards of the barn, that he might not fail to hear when the ambassadress entered the outhouse adjoining to it. ❋ Unknown (1793)

(the term of ear not being applicable to the growth of this plant) about six inches below the grain, the remaining stalk or halm being left as of no value. ❋ William Marsden (1795)

650 A.D., when the name applied is _calamus_ (reed); later the names _shalmei_ (_chalumeau_, "straw," from German _halm_) and ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)

a garathinx, or earnest, of his bequest -- a halm of straw, a turf, a cup of drink, a piece of money -- as to this day a drover seals his bargain with a shilling, and a commercial traveller with a glass of liquor. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

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