How To Use Barleycorn In A Sentence
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Use the following calculator to convert between feet and barleycorns.
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I have recently bought a breadmaker, and so far, Doves Barleycorn Flour makes the best loaf I have ever tasted!
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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.
Chapter 30
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I abandoned myself to the life, and developed the misconception that the secret of John Barleycorn lay in going on mad drunks, rising through the successive stages that only an iron constitution could endure to final stupefaction and swinish unconsciousness.
Chapter 12
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An absolute statistic of the per centage of suicides due to John Barleycorn would be appalling.
Chapter 12
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Barleycorn can reveal the details of the new Managers Car Scheme.
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Firstly there are three Barleycorns (Bc) to the inch, not our present inch, but the old Northern inch, (1.1 present inches), i.e. 36 Bc. to 13.2 inches.
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At once, O untravelled reader, you see how lunatic and blasphemous is the realm I am trying to describe to you in the language of John Barleycorn's tribe.
Chapter 35
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And when I was convalescent came the love of woman to complete the cure and lull my pessimism asleep for many a long day, until John Barleycorn again awoke it.
Chapter 28
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Barleycorn sends his White Logic, the argent messenger of truth beyond truth, the antithesis of life, cruel and bleak as interstellar space, pulseless and frozen as absolute zero, dazzling with the frost of irrefragable logic and unforgettable fact.
Chapter 35
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You have shown yourself no alcoholic, no dipsomaniac, but merely an habitual drinker, one who has made John Barleycorn's acquaintance through long years of rubbing shoulders with him.
Chapter 1
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When a few hardy critics even write about London's stories, they carefully avoid the "kiddy lit" and focus exclusively on London's belles-lettres: Adventure, Burning Daylight, John Barleycorn, The
A Bibliographical Essay
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She struck the hearth with the birchen branch, and lo! the barleycorns flew into the pot, and the hearth was clean.
The Red Fairy Book
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Here is a barleycorn of a different kind to those which grow in the farmer's fields, and which the chickens eat; put it into a flower-pot, and see what will happen.
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Each barleycorn was one third on an inch, which added up to 12 inches or one "foot."
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So I left Benicia, where John Barleycorn had nearly got me, and ranged wider afield in pursuit of the whisper from the back of life to come and find.
Chapter 13
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Whisky is exiled from some of our caravanserais, and they have banished Sir John Barleycorn.
Letters to Dead Authors
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The longest normal foot measured 39 barleycorns, or 13 inches, and was called size 13.
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In England and Scotland, at least as early as the 12th century an inch was thought of as 3 barleycorns laid end to end.
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I survived, through no personal virtue, but because I did not have the chemistry of a dipsomaniac and because I possessed an organism unusually resistant to the ravages of John Barleycorn.
Chapter 38
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Human societies have used pebbles, nuts, barleycorn, bones, twigs, yarrow stalks, polished sticks, cards, coins, and dice the list goes on and on to make decisions that are transparently fair.
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The weight of a barleycorn, later renamed the grain is the original basis of all English weight systems.
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He led a goat dressed in homespun, one of last year's barleycorns tucked above its ear.
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And the reason why these best are destroyed is because John Barleycorn stands on every highway and byway, accessible, law-protected, saluted by the policeman on the beat, speaking to them, leading them by the hand to the places where the good fellows and daring ones forgather and drink deep.
Chapter 13
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Barleycorn will have been banished out of existence along with the other barbarisms, some other institution than the saloon will have to obtain, some other congregating place of men where strange men and stranger men may get in touch, and meet, and know.
Chapter 13
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Barleycorn sends his White Logic, the argent messenger of truth beyond truth, the antithesis of life, cruel and bleak as interstellar space, pulseless and frozen as absolute zero, dazzling with the frost of irrefragable logic and unforgettable fact.
Chapter 35
