...I don’t care two straws for music from an instrument—unless itbe the pipes or a regimental band—but I dearly love the human voice... 
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... They saw it burst asthough built of straws, and an instant later Tantor, the elephant,thundered down upon them...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...This baffled him more than the lances; he crunched the shafts between his powerful jaws like straws, but he was beaten by the sand, and, shaking his huge head, he retreated to the river...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...Their eggs are laid upon theground in the vicinity of ponds or rivers; sometimes there is no lining andagain a few straws or grasses may be twisted around the depression...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Outside, the nest has a very disorderly appearance, as there are alwayslong straws and sometimes rags hanging down; the cavity is deeplylined with feathers, and is the hottest nest I know...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
... Their methods vary, some burrow in the ground, some in old wood, some in snail shells, some in bramble stems or straws or the hollow stems of various plants, some in holes or crevices in walls, etc...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...Among such things may be straws, sticks, glass, rags, earth, piecesof leather, and whatever the animal may have encountered small enough to beswallowed...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...The nest of the Hooded Crow is large,composed of twigs, sea-weeds, heath, feathers, and straws, and isplaced on rocks, tall trees, low bushes, and elsewhere, accordingto circumstances...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The vermin, or the germ of the vermin, is probably conveyed to the nest in hen's feathers, or in straws and hairs picked up about the barn or hen-house...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...Jorrocks was seen poking his way through the crowdwith a number of straws sticking to his feet, giving himthe appearance of a feathered Mercury...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...They say drowning men catch at straws...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
...Having done this, she droppedthe empty shells over the side of the nest, togetherwith any straws that had become soiled in the process,cleaned her bill, and proceeded with her incubation...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...A man is wrapt up in askin, and carries a wisp of straw in his mouth, so that theprojecting straws look like the bristles of a boar...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The fillets employed appear to be wide, flattened straws ofvaried colors...
William H. Holmes 「A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament」
...The materials most used are quills and brightcolored straws, the foundation fabric being of bark or of rushes...
William H. Holmes 「A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament」
...rowning men catch at straws...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930」
..."Let's draw straws," suggested McCready...
Sterner St. Paul Meek 「The Solar Magnet」
...The pitiful little forcible-feeble rebellion, all along buta futile attempt to cast straws against the wind, was now completelyover and done with, and would never be heard of again...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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