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Sentence Examples Never one to hide his light under a bushel, he has extracted the most possible mileage from his stewardship of York City. If there are any negative aspects of Quakerism it's that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel. They note that if the company paid one cent more for each bushel of tomatoes, tomato pickers ' wages could be roughly doubled. Basingstoke is a go-ahead place and the community should not hide its light under a bushel. High speed batch or continuous flow dryers have the highest bushel capacity per hour of any of the systems mentioned in this article. A truss of hay of 66 pounds is therefore equal to 28 pounds of oats, or a bushel of the best oats will go as far as one truss and a half of hay. Grain sorghum usually outyields corn up to the 120-140 bushel yield level where adapted. Through the comb-like bristles of its baleen filters, it squirts out the seawater, entrapping krill by the bushel. Add about one-half pound of superphosphate to each bushel of organic material applied to the soil. Select one that is potted in a bushel basket or other large container or balled with burlap into a large, firm root ball. Never one to hide his light under a bushel, he predicts he will be able to create artificial life in a test tube within the next three years. My silence fills the car, and a lone bushel of tumbleweed scooting through the scene wouldn't exactly seem out of place. Perhaps they are hiding their light under a bushel, since there is such minimal evidence of awareness in the wild. Nor do its people feel any need to hide their light under a bushel like the painfully self-conscious and underconfident Scots. Female contestants vied to tell the weepiest sob story to win the bushel of prizes. We want to try and get them to believe that it's good to succeed, to feel special, and realise they should not hide their light under a bushel. Nowadays to be bright is to be stigmatised, so better to hide your light under a bushel. Then again, combine abundant soybean acres with 160 bushel national average corn yields and the price of both may be in the tank. Members receive a three-quarter bushel produce box each week, filled with everything from garlic flowers, kohlrabi and strawberries to edamame, muskmelon and sweet corn. To coin a phrase, we've been hiding our light under a bushel, and it's well past time we told our story. Show More Sentences Uncle Sam is adding 70¢ a bushel to each farmer's bushel of barley coming in to Canada with no tariffs on it, competing against our products. It seems every time I look at the flax market these past three to four weeks, it's been up another 50 cents to a buck per bushel. A farmer could mow forty times as much hay in a day as his father could have, and he could harvest a bushel of wheat in 1 percent of the time. The flue finishing ring allows for aesthetic joining of the traditional bushel and the connecting flue pipe. We should not always hide our light under a bushel, and we should not always talk just about American broadcasters. Delving into Celtic cultures was something you had to do in secret because they'd been very much hidden under a bushel. Why, I said to myself, are the best married people hiding their light under a bushel? The maps are accompanied by a supplementary text providing a count of elevators for each province as well as bushel capacity by province. A bushel of field corn will yield, among other things, 31.5 lb. of starch, which can be converted to among other things, 2.7 gallons of fuel ethanol. Duarte asks, referring to a bushel of fruits just brought in from the backyard orchard. Pulling back his cloak, he shows off his giant phallus bearing forth a bushel of fruit. Sorghum requires less water than corn but yields about the same amount of ethanol per bushel. It could be tied to commodities like a bushel of wheat, or a pork belly. If I were a letter carrier, everyone would have to set out a bushel basket on his or her birthday because I would bring a hundred cards. Similarly, West will pay no more than one bike per bushel. Throughout the book, we see Erasmas tinkering with a tool called a sphere: a flexible, amorphous blob that he can variously fashion into a bushel basket, a stool, a toboggan and a life buoy. These families witnessed the veracity of the Gospel words, When you light a lamp you do not put it under a bushel but rather on a stand where it enlightens the entire room. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. This is something like the Dutchman who tried to reduced the feed of his horse by slow degrees from half a bushel of oats to a single wisp of straw, and thus do away with what he called the extravagance of the oats. A bushel of corn yields 2.8 gallons of ethanol and in order to meet the congressional mandates, more than a quarter of United States corn crop must be diverted to ethanol production. Show More Sentences By the third year he had a bushel, which he shipped West. How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat? The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn. A city that is set on an hill, cannot be hid, neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth all them which are in the house. The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. Examples from Classical Literature It is measured not by the bushel, but by the fanega, which weighs 225 pounds. We are told by those who believe in fiat money that gold is a measure of value just the same as a half bushel or a yardstick. Mr. Printer, I saw a man the other day, carrying a bushel or two of flaxseed. The nuts are gathered into bushel baskets and hauled in a pick-up truck to the husker. A bushel o' thet corn, sledded over ter ther nighest store fotches in mebby forty cents. There isn't a bushel of wheat in the country that isn't in the combination. Any scheme to sequestrate, to hide it under a bushel, or to put it under lock and key, is a shallow device. You know how hampering it is to one's enthusiasm to have to prepare a bushel of potatoes at once. But the grain of wheat in his bushel of chaff was that Miss Hazelwood seemed to be fascinated by Braybridge from the first. This is satisfactory, for one grain of fact is more precious than a bushel of guesses and hearsays. To this class, to the class that hide their light under a bushel, the beautiful Indian pitta belongs. Why whelm they that light under a bushel which ought to stand on a candlestick? If he does and seeds by the bushel, or other measures, he is apt to be misled. Buy it by weight, or stipulate that there shall be so many pounds to the bushel. People spoke now of the Winchester bushel, instead of the Schoharie spint and skipple. Why, one might bury millions there without reaping a single bushel of oats! Dey weigh like Sam Hill, an' sixty bushel at dat allowance ain't goin' to last t'ree weeks here. The resultant compound seemed to me very nearly equivalent to half a bushel, dry measure. If we employ an arbitrary symbol, and pay, say, five dollars a day for farm work, then the cost of a bushel of wheat is fifty cents. By the way, could you have a bushel of cornmeal sent to me from Dinwiddie? Show More Sentences You shall have the wizard for a bushel of money, but I must have full measure. I hid not my light under a bushel, she would say that for me. There was a time when the farmer sold his corn for a dollar a bushel. A bushel of flour is about the quantity required for the paste. Therefore, less went to the farmers for their wheat per bushel or centner. An ounce of strychnine should poison a bushel of the cut bait. At the door of this opry-house is dolf Springer holdin a bushel basket. Like him he was a wild projector, seeking to heap up gold by the bushel and the cartload, instead of scraping it together, coin by coin. Grain is measured by the kil, regarded as equal to a bushel. And this is the seventh bushel of the twenty-seventh quarter. That's all, a cheese cob or a ham cob and not a baguette with half a bushel of greengrocery covering it. From the extravagant value placed upon the article, I verily believe, that with a bushel of common Liverpool salt all the real estate in Typee might have been purchased. Once there, they wade onto an oyster bed, pick up oysters, cull them, and put them into floating wooden boxes that each hold about 540 oysters or about a bushel. During the Middle Ages it seems we measured grain in bushels and a bushel, when full of wheat, was reckoned to weigh 64 tower pounds or 56 avoirdupois pounds. Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a strangely discolored bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low down on the flank. On my objecting to this retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book under a bushel of coal-dust. The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal. Despite this decision, producer-members of AGvantage IP who grew Betty or Heyne ended up contracting with Farmland Industries for a 10-cent per bushel premium. Find more words! 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