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winnowed .
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Examples
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For were our experience to go on forever accumulating, unwinnowed, undiminished, every man would sooner or later break down beneath it; every man would be crushed by his own traditions, becoming a grave to himself, and drawing the clods over his own head.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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On hearing this, Apollo, handing him a sack of unwinnowed wheat, bade him pick out _all the chaff_ for his reward.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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The men were shovelling the unwinnowed grain into heaps, the woman and the girl sweeping up what remained.
Hadji Murad 1904
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She believes the selected few are better than the unwinnowed many as rulers.
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Mexico; while nothing more than their rations of rice are paid them here, which amount to three fanégas of unwinnowed rice apiece per month, and some additional aid from year to year, and between the departure of the vessels.
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Inasmuch as the governor of the said islands was made cognizant of the above, he ordered in the year 601 that one hundred pesos of common gold and two hundred fanegas of unwinnowed rice be given the said religious annually for four years, for the support of the said seminary, to be taken from the fund of the fourths
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So they are taxed to a less amount, each Indian being taxed for a fanéga and a half of unwinnowed rice, and a piece of cloth, white or colored, woven from a plant.
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[16] [16] Or, "the same chaff (i.e. unwinnowed corn, Angl. corn) twice."
The Economist 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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Apollo, handing him a sack of unwinnowed wheat, bade him pick out _all the chaff _for his reward.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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Take the world for a heap of unwinnowed corn in the floor, and God loves it,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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