| The histology of the barleycorn is best studied by the examination of sections under the microscope. |
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| The prevalence of this sign may be accounted for by the kindred love for the barleycorn in the human and gallinaceous tribes. |
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| The accompanying illustrations show portions of longitudinal sections of a barleycorn magnified to different degrees. |
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| The lowest dimension, as in our own table of linear measure, was the barleycorn. |
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| A small inflamed tumour, or boil, at the edge of the eyelid, somewhat resembling a barleycorn. |
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| Few of them bore the somatic signs of intimacy with Mr. barleycorn. |
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| If she can cancel at once her bonds and barleycorn, so much the better. |
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| I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world. |
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| When I was a cub reporter, a colleague, long mellowed in hops and barleycorn, told me you hadn't made it until a story of yours was in a newspaper wrapping fish and chips. |
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| Several tons of Russian Barleycorn and Sunflower Meal were sold to the IME's customers through its agricultural products hall on Sunday. |
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| They were eloquent proselyters for John Barleycorn in their own small insidious way. |
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| These include Coquetdale Past and Present, Coquet Meander, Sett for Sunday, Dippie's View and John Barleycorn. |
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| His character John Barleycorn wakes after thousands of years to find himself in a grey and lifeless city filled with grey, lifeless people. |
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| If Christmas Day is the feast of St Nicholas, today we celebrate St John Barleycorn, patron saint of hangovers. |
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| Fran's nightmare began on July 4 last year when she went to the John Barleycorn pub in her home city of Dundee for a meal and a drink with a pal. |
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| Fran and her ex-partner Colin Henderson had gone to the John Barleycorn in Dundee's Hilltown area for a meal last July. |
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| John Barleycorn was on a truth-telling rampage, giving away the choicest secrets on himself. |
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| But he liked to meet his cronies at the Sir John Barleycorn. |
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| An absolute statistic of the per centage of suicides due to John Barleycorn would be appalling. |
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| Yet suicide, quick or slow, a sudden spill or a gradual oozing away through the years, is the price John Barleycorn exacts. |
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| Laban told a little more of his battle with John Barleycorn. |
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| I guess they have got a little too much John Barleycorn on board! |
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| Skullen must have 134 forgotten his old nemesis, John Barleycorn. |
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| His tavern, the Sir John Barleycorn, did not engross all his activities. |
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| I happened into the Sir John Barleycorn just afore seein' you, sir. |
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| And John Barleycorn, mighty necromancer though he be, is as much a slave to organic chemistry as we mortals are. |
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| And what had John Barleycorn to do with such strenuous, Stoic toil of a lad just turned fifteen? |
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| I hailed myself a master of life, riding on the back of the unleashed elements, and John Barleycorn rode with me. |
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| I was discovering a new world, and such was the passion of my exploration that the old world of John Barleycorn held no inducements for me. |
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| And at once awoke all my old unrest that John Barleycorn had put to sleep. |
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| French Frank, aided by John Barleycorn, orated hypocritically about virtue and honesty, and, despite his fifty years, got Whisky Bob out on the sand and proceeded to lick him. |
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| Even the teacher of our little country school, a greying man of fifty, gave us vacations on the occasions when he wrestled with John Barleycorn and was thrown. |
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| To show how unripe I was for John Barleycorn, when, at this time, I descended into my slough of despond, I never dreamed of turning to John Barleycorn for a helping hand. |
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| But the time was at hand, rhymeless and reasonless so far as I can see, when I was to begin to pay for my score of years of dallying with John Barleycorn. |
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| But it must not be forgotten that John Barleycorn is protean. |
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