...She was pretty and soft, but she weighed onehundred and twenty pounds—a lusty last straw to the load dragged by theweak and starving animals... 
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
...He worked in the dark in order to make himself more comfortable on the chests, burrowing down into the straw for the sake of its heat...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
..."I swear," cried Fernan, again interrupting him, "that ifyou don't get quickly from the straw to the grain, you shall feelthe flat of my sword...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...The following day I saw her again, this time talking sedately with Mr Ivery,and dressed in a very pretty summer gown, and a broad-brimmed straw hat withflowers in it...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...I think the sight of me was the last straw for Ivery...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Should he stay with his master or go? He looked at the figure with the wide straw hat moving toward the house, and he looked up at his master; then he put down the little paw and went...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...A straw guides the water into the hole of the vessel, as she draws mouthful after mouthful from below...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The commandant of the village having slaughtered a cow, slaves were obliged to sit up the whole night, burning fires of straw around the meat, to prevent them from devouring most of it...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The dried straw is a substitute for sticks in forming the walls of the village huts; these are plastered with clay and cow-dung, which form the Arab's lath and plaster...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The cattle that had panted for water, and whose food was withered straw, were filled with juicy fodder...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The ground was trampled by many feet of men and horses; straw, forage, packing-cases, and rubbish of all kinds, were strewn about, and absolutely hid the soil from view...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...Still back of this are thousands of the low grass, or mud and wattle huts of the natives, their roofs thatched with straw or palm...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
... “do you consider that there is any analogy between this straw and the flint in the lock of that gun?”...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
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