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This serves as the seed for the growth of white, wheatsheaf-shaped carbonate crystals.
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Thanks for the nomination wheatsheaf, but I'm going to leave myself out of this in the interest of fairness.
Unofficial 2007 Blogging Dipper Awards uncorrectedproofs 2007
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Gifts weren't the usual tins of beans, soup, runner beans and one ornate bread mould of a wheatsheaf with a fieldmouse at the bottom - so not entirely like being back at primary school.
Archive 2005-09-01 Kerron Cross 2005
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Didn't Joseph tell of the dream in which his wheatsheaf was exalted; Deborah sing without blame how she arose a mother in Israel, and David boast of his triumph over the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear?
More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907
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At first Brother Dove thought this was an answer to his own prayers to the Virgin, and took it for a great proof of the love she bore him; but when many far more fervid prayers had failed to add a single wheatsheaf to the harvest, he began to think that the child was trafficking with bards, or druids, or witches, and resolved to follow and watch.
The Secret Rose 1897
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Proclaim, ye classics, what minor Goddess, or primal, Iris or Ate, sped straight away on wing to the empty wheatsheaf-ears of the golden-visaged
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'A wheatsheaf of contention for the bread of wind, 'said Diana, thinking of foolish Sir Lukin; thoughtless of talking to a gossip.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'A wheatsheaf of contention for the bread of wind, 'said Diana, thinking of foolish Sir Lukin; thoughtless of talking to a gossip.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Proclaim, ye classics, what minor Goddess, or primal, Iris or Ate, sped straight away on wing to the empty wheatsheaf-ears of the golden-visaged
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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'A wheatsheaf of contention for the bread of wind, 'said Diana, thinking of foolish Sir Lukin; thoughtless of talking to a gossip.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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