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• This was the last straw! (8)
• The Camille, and the last straw! (8)
• I crept into the straw. (8)
• It was laden with straw. (8)
• It has the reek of stable straw. (10)
• Are you very deeply attached to straw hats? (10)
• Locked together, the Ambler and straw ran home. (8)
• I made a little hole in the straw and saw the bargeman. (8)
• So, with straw closing up, they came into the straight. (8)
• But presently he took a pitchfork and prodded the straw. (8)
• The whip came down again; straw was two lengths in front. (8)
• The shading straw rim had shaken once during the colloquy. (10)
• Most of the humbler guests had already left their straw beds. (5)
• Swift to building work addressed, Any straw will help a nest. (10)
• Shovel and pickaxe and beds of absorbing straw accomplish wonders. (21)
• As soon as the mist began to clear, the bargeman hid me in the straw. (8)
• The shade of her broad straw hat partly concealed her vivid features. (10)
• He pulled off his ragged straw hat and flung it on the floor of the porch. (9)
• And with a feeling of elation, as of a straw blown on every wind, he arose. (8)
• The foolish fellow did not know that they care not a straw for cricketing fame. (10)
• The life prayed for by one seemed a wisp of straw flung on this humming furnace. (10)
• Our bed was a cart under a shed, our bed-clothes fern-leaves and armfuls of straw. (10)
• His dark grizzled hair was pushed back off his hot brow, which he fanned with his straw hat. (8)
• And fumbling at his straw hat, he passed his other hand over his sleeve and held it out to Gyp. (8)
• Straw is littered over the premises in the endeavor to absorb the moisture, but avails little. (21)
• Besides his own peacock blue there was a straw, a blue with white stripes, a red with white stars. (8)
• Not far off, a lad lay flat on his face asleep among some straw, to represent the worldly element. (2)
• The kind wise youth could not find it in his heart to strike away the phantom straw she caught at. (10)
• He anxiously asked the driver if the broad straw hats and the bright sacks and kirtles were no more. (9)
• It was in the middle of December and straw was strewn in the street in front of the Ueberhell house. (5)
• A lantern is hung by a rope that lifts the bales of straw, to a long ladder leaning against a rafter. (8)
• Now, it chanced that an old man sleeping in a hovel on a pallet of straw was, awakened by these cries. (8)
• Aslant her cheek the brim of a straw hat threw a curve of shade, her ear glowed transparent in the sun. (8)
• At Passau was the frontier; they lay there for the night, but nothing happened, and I slept in the straw. (8)
• The man was fully clothed, but nothing was visible of the woman except her black stockings in the straw. (12)
• She had on a lawn frock, and a hat of the palest coffee-coloured straw, with a narrow black velvet ribbon. (8)
• On the morrow, while he still slept stretched on his straw pallet, there came to him a member of the Watch. (8)
• She was pale, and droopy from the heat, but happily dressed in Liberty silk, with a plain turn-down straw hat. (8)
• Before each one stood a long-necked bottle wound with straw, cups were filled, emptied, waved aloft or clinked. (5)
• Most of them were already asleep on heaps of straw, which were raised at the head by chairs turned upside down. (5)
• He cared not a straw for Ferrand, his coming, going, or his history; for, looking at Antonia, his heart was heavy. (8)
• I had a kind of joy in feeling I had the mastery, and could toss the iron out of his hand any minute like a straw. (8)
• A half-intoxicated old ruffian, a policeman, and a man in a straw hat had stopped below, and were holding a palaver. (8)
• There is a headlong, forthright tide, that bears away man with his fancies like a straw, and runs fast in time and space. (2)
• As I was being ferried across I saw him lolling in the stern-sheets of a little boat, the sun crowning his straw hat with glory. (8)
• These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks. (8)
• Whitwell leaned forward and took a straw into his mouth from the golden wall of oat sheaves in the barn where they were talking. (9)
• Across the great parade-ground were two long heaps of straw in parallel lines, which were evidently the beds of the men at night. (20)
• While he speaks, a substantial woman, a little over middle-age, in old dark clothes and a black straw hat, enters from the corridor. (8)
• He was speaking to Mrs. Sedley, but caught the look, and bent his head for a clearer view of the features under the broad straw hat. (10)
• Pierson looked down at the patient mass of standing figures in straw hats and military caps, with faces turned all one way, and sighed. (8)
• He picked up his coat, slung it on, and, heaving a straw bag over his shoulder, walked out on to the grass-bordered road between the elms. (8)
• She extended a strong, flexible hand to Hart, and with the other motioned toward a marble that was slowly emerging from the packing straw. (13)
• After squeezing through boxes and straw, I lay flat, covered by a mat smelling of abominable cheese, and felt a head outside it on my chest. (10)
• He got up from his seat, put on his old straw hat with trembling fingers, and, without a glance back, went out, stumbling over the chair-legs. (8)
• The Spring wind was ruffling straw and little bits of paper in the gutters; under the bright sunlight a bleak and bitter struggle seemed raging. (8)
• Staring at that little head which he admired so much, upright and unmoving, in its dark straw toque against the cushion, he would become suddenly alert. (8)

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