The ripe grain had to come in before bad weather could spoil it.

And he varied his diet with berries and the ripe grain which grew wild in the ancient fields.

Whereas in the lowlands of upper Mesopotamia he might hope to find ripe grain to buy.

It swept through them like a scythe through ripe grain.

"Lead them into a trap, where they would be mowed down like ripe grain, terrible as that sounds!"

I recall a lass up near Edenderry, a round young thing with hair the color of ripe grain.

In the unharvested fields the ripe grain spilled and trickled on the ground.

A herd of scraggly goats tossed their heads among a stand of ripe grain.

The goat gave a derisive bleat and took another mouthful of ripe grain.

Scythed them from out their saddles like ripe grain, he did.