...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 had risen and was standing, cane and straw hat in hand...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Many broken bottles and chests with some straw were all that was in the cave...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Pescadero gave a frightful bellow to cause the animal to charge,exciting, with yells and with furious stamping on the ground, thisanimal with entrails of air and rushes, and a head of straw...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...She had spread her travellingcloak over the straw, and was sitting fairly comfortably, as the straw wasfresh, and the evil odours from below came up to her only in a modified form...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... Pitt reassured him, and slunk off back to his own hut and the straw that served him for a bed...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Could it be Andre-Louis returning? Passionately she snatched at that straw of hope...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... and such a needle! A needlewhich can become a piece of straw or a tin-tack when it chooses!”...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...I think the sight of me was the last straw for Ivery...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...He had neverbeen properly under fire before, but he didn’t give a straw for it...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Friendless among cruel enemies, Meriem clutched at the straw that AbdulKamak held out to her...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...It is probably too rich, and would make corn run entirely to straw, for one species of grass was observed twelve feet high, with a stem as thick as a man's thumb...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The process of harvesting and threshing is remarkably simple, as the heads are simply detached from the straw and beaten out in piles...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of 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」
...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」
...This is, as I have said, composed of large "beehive" houses thatched conically with straw...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
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