After a meal of dry grain, strong goat cheese, and hard bread, Quentin had fallen asleep again.

Slow movement helped squelch the crackle of dry grain stubble the men crawled over.

The seafood salad is also paired with the dry tasteless grain.

It made a sandy sound... as if the mass before us was constructed of small dry grains rasping against each other with the motion.

Certain mechanical threshers are designed only for dry grain.

Rice-a-Roni would have been as apt a description of the dry, dreary grains.

The result is a rich, dry, light grain that goes well with lamb, chicken or beef curry.

Leavened dough, made from dry, ground grains mixed with water and yeast, is used all over the world.

The only snow was made up of hard dry stinging grains, whipped by driving wind.

We went shopping once a week with a wood cart, so we had to live on dry grains that wouldn't spoil.

Gradan was an expeditious method of drying grain for the gristmill, by burning the straw.

It consists of a kiln at one end for drying or malting grain and a bread baking oven at the other end, it is built of local limestone collected from Lavernock beach.

It was a large 3-storey and attic, 6-bay rubble building, on a T-plan, with a kiln with roof-ridge ventilator at one end for drying grain.

Their flat roofs are used as work spaces, and seem to crackle with lively shapes - prayer flags flap from poles tilted at rakish angles amid piles of drying grain, thatch made of brush and stacks of dung patties.

In the past it also provided a place for drying grain during rainy weather.

The sauna was also used for drying grain and smoking of meat.

So, last fall, why did the 39-year-old Mr. Olk spend $650,000 on fancy computerized machinery that weighs, stores and dries grain?

In autumn and winter the square is decorated in ornate swirling patterns of drying grain.

At Baligartan, there is the remains of a kiln for drying grain, and on the south shore, in a gully (GR173378), there is another, which was probably used in the island's old kelp industry.

They were widely installed in ships, prisons and mines and were successful in reducing disease; versions of Hales' ventilators were also used in preserving foods and drying grain.