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Bashfulness and dyspathy are a tough husk in which a chosen and delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.
It was just a husk, an empty shell, worth nothing, containing nothing, meaningless.
When grain is threshed the seeds are separated from the husk and the rest of the ear.
When I was done, I tossed her aside like an empty husk of what was once beautiful.
Upon maturation in October through November, the outer husk dehisces, exposing white arillate seeds.
Shaking his head, Glanville tells me that he once dragged up the husk of a 1939 Oldsmobile in his trawl.
They cleaned the huge brass vessels and plates with ash, sand and coconut husk.
After the husk is removed, the rice is milled to remove the bran and the germ or embryo.
The outside husk or exocarp is smooth and very tough, green to reddish brown becoming grey as the fruit matures.
But the symptoms of deprivation are much the same as those of excess, and I am left weak and drained, an empty husk until I take another dose.
The husk, which contains useful fibre, known as coir, is not discarded but is set aside to produce, for example, coconut matting.
For example, the fruit of pomegranate, having its husk filled with numerous fleshy seeds, became a symbol of fertility.
Although true psyllium comes from the plant Plantago psyllium, the husk and seed of Plantago ovata is commonly referred to as psyllium.
No, you can't just grind the entire pod, but an initial pounding in a mortar will loosen the seeds from the papery husk.
Lemurs, a group of primates on the African island of Madagascar, go after a wide range of seeds, including big fleshy seeds encased in a husk.
Six-row barley is generally considered to be of lower quality than two-row barley, and its thicker husk results in tannic and powdery flavours.
You drink the juice of an unripened coconut, direct from the fruit through a hole bored in the husk.
It clung to the planet like a locust, slowly eating away at the precious minerals until there was nothing left except an empty husk.
It is abundantly available as it forms 70 per cent of the weight of the coconut husk.
They're too tough, and the husk is still attached, and I always end up leaving them at the bottom of the container.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The fruit is a drupe, that is, it consists of a fleshy husk enclosing a nut.
The lines used had been made by themselves from the fibrous husk of the cocoa-nut.
The fibres of the husk of rice and the cells of the testa of Lolium are, however, very distinct in other respects.
Before this is required, the coffee has previously undergone the process of pulping, or removal from the soft fleshy husk.
With renewed strength it flings away the husk and prowls on to seek other prey.
But in the 'hip' of the rose, the incorporation with the husk of the seed does not take place.
Every seed has a husk, holding either that seed alone, or other seeds with it.
She did not sleep that night, nor I, for the husk of the world had been torn away.
The shell of infested Persian walnuts parts poorly from the husk and the nut is discolored, soiled and unmarketable.
Pearl barley is the grain polished and rounded and deprived of husk and pellicle.
Egg plants, tomatoes and peppers grew upon the European husk tomato or alkekengi.
But despite all this flamboyance, what we are left with is the husk of what ought to be a passionate tale.
The thin outer husk of the pignut is not much larger than the nut.
It's true enough in the main,' he said, 'master, I could sift grain from husk here and there, but let it be as 'tis.
Carbonized rice husk is widely available in regions where rice is produced and processed, such as South Brazil.
It is enclosed in a husk in the very heart of the tree, at its summit.
The cocoanuts were all attached to one another by strips of the husk, partly torn from the shell and rudely fastened together.
In it, the husk and the seed envelope have become inextricably one.
There was a lump in his throat, and his good-bye had a husk in it.
She's nought but th' old husk, and thee'st slipped away from her, like the ripe nut.
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