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  • To further clarify: I used my flame-thrower to repel representative Jason Chaffetz when I ran into him at the local Orem, UT Rudfuckers. Stuff We Did This Weekend
  • Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
  • In another group of bushes I found a chiffchaff hopping around.
  • Pasgen allowed himself to be divested of three of the amulets he had marked because to fail to chaffer would also mark him as unusual; however, he was growing impatient and finally made as if to throw down the amulets he was holding and walk away. Ill Met By Moonlight
  • There is no wheat without chaff. 
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  • The U. S. State Department last week was chaffering with the French government on this matter.
  • A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot 
  • He thrust his hand into the stack of chaff up to the elbow without feeling a thing.
  • When he had prepared twenty or more of those pieces of poisoned tallow, he put them in what he called a fox bed, of oat chaff, behind that old barn. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
  • Do you have a Horwood Bagshaw chaff-cutter with screw bagger fitted please?
  • You have to sort the wheat from the chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • The thresher is a square frame drawn over the grain -- which is spread upon the bare ground -- and is furnished on its under side with steel blades which not only shell the grain out of the ear, but also reduce the straw into chaff, which is desirable, as storing for feed more conveniently. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
  • In addition to supporting Columba trocaz, several forest areas are also very important for a number of Madeiran subspecies, notably the birds of prey and passerines living within the forest canopy such Madeira chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs maderensis) and Madeira firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus maderensis). Madeira evergreen forests
  • The chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.
  • At its side you could see a cow munching on a pile of chaff.
  • Doing this will sort the wheat from the chaff and will save time, effort and tears. Times, Sunday Times
  • When all the applications came in, our first task was to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  • Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
  • But chaff drifts with the wind. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • She paints a portrait of a young, 31-year-old woman who was bright and strong-willed and who chaffed under the discipline imposed on a first lady.
  • Your last argument about the wheat and the chaff is still unconvincing. Think Progress » CNN’s Kyra Phillips apologizes for hosting discredited ‘ex-gay’ guest: He wasn’t an ‘appropriate’ choice.
  • Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing. Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year?
  • This could involve reaping the gains from some of your better performers or, alternatively, getting rid of some of the chaff that has performed consistently poorly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The old prince disputed it chaffingly, but without getting angry. War and Peace
  • I mean, if the GOP wants to try to use pure rhetorical radar chaff to stymy Democratic bills, the Dems had better learn to respond by simply flinging it back at them. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | House GOPers Make Bid To Derail FISA Legislation
  • The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
  • I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
  • He always had bran, pollard, hay and chaff on hand and would pay the highest prices for dairy produce.
  • The defence was to be entrusted to the well-practised but now aged hands of that most experienced practitioner Mr Chaffanbrass, than whom no barrister living or dead ever rescued more culprits from the fangs of the law. Phineas Redux
  • [16] [16] Or, "the same chaff (i.e. unwinnowed corn, Angl. corn) twice. The Economist
  • He chaffingly congratulated me on my tracking powers, and expressed regret that I had not made my appearance earlier, so that we might have arranged a race; and by the time we had finished lunch, I was as completely convinced as I had ever been of anything in my life, that he had no connection whatsoever with the Pirate. The Motor Pirate
  • The trick, he says, is sorting the chaff from the wheat. Times, Sunday Times
  • La Croix of the machine which has since been called the purifier, which removed the dirt and light impurities from the refuse middlings in the same manner that dust and chaff are removed from wheat by a fanning mill. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
  • Ali Shar, “Begone, without more chaffer and chatter; there is nothing in the house.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He always had bran, pollard, hay and chaff on hand and would pay the highest prices for dairy produce.
  • The seeds sprinkle out while the chaff and larger debris remain in the cup and can be discarded.
  • A forage barn and granary is usually built to hold a fortnight's supply, and a chaff-cutter driven by horse power is fixed close by. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
  • Dog roses, bramble, nettles and thistles provide good for birds such as goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinches and the occasional rarity such as brambling or bullfinch.
  • The electronic communication has forged bonds among staff and third-grade families that are the strongest at Logan, said Principal Francine Schaffer.
  • Black folks chaffered and bargained with endless talk over plaintains, banana beer, and hammered brass ornaments. Conan of Cimmeria
  • More than 2,600 linnets, 100 yellowhammers, 229 reed buntings and 1,200 skylarks have been recorded along with smaller numbers of brambling, tree sparrows and chaffinches. BBC News - Home
  • Kenneth Schaffner used and developed Ernst Nagel's (1961) analysis of derivational theory reduction to argue for the reduction of classical Mendelian genetics (T2) to molecular biology (T1) and refined it over many years Molecular Biology
  • “As alcohol dilutes blood in the cupula, the cupula becomes less dense and rises,” says Dr. Schaffer. Unusual Things to Teach Your Body | Impact Lab
  • We have to sift through the application forms very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  • We are working through a process of sorting the wheat from the chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have to sort the wheat from the chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wheat will be sorted from chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trick, he says, is sorting the chaff from the wheat. Times, Sunday Times
  • He put two frag grenades, two smoke grenades and two chaff grenades into their respective compartments.
  • Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • The softer side, for example the love and steadfastness of Antigone, is simply uncut hay for the chaff-cutter, the material and not the form of life.
  • Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced Wednesday that they've introduced a resolution to "disprove" the city's law on legalizing pot for medical use. Lori's A.M. Buzz
  • In addition, parching scorches off the long barbed ends of the chaff and destroys any detritus left after cleaning.
  • It seemed the whole city was en fate as rival supporters with all manner of blue-and-white manifestations chaffed one another good-humoredly and cheered loudly.
  • The wise leader identifies the kernel and blows the chaff away. Christianity Today
  • To further thwart engagement, a LACM could employ relatively simple countermeasures such as chaff and decoys.
  • This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases.
  • Nearby, the rough grass and scrub contain large stands of teasels and thistles, which provide seeds for finches - goldfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, brambling and siskin are frequent winter visitors.
  • The defensive aids suite could include a radar warner, missile launch and approach warner, and chaff and flare decoy dispensers.
  • German, rather bravely, had agreed to defend George Galloway against somebody who was sufficiently well informed to cut through his evasive chaff, and came out of the experience somewhat dazed and confused.
  • NIV Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff?
  • An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.
  • It is said that only in the No.1 Food Store can people buy chaff.
  • In two rounds of sprinting heats on the previous day, the wheat had been sorted from the chaff.
  • Or else, well-fermented maslin, that is, provender formed of a mixture of various substances: grain, beans, vetches, hay, and salt. winnowed -- not as it is usually given to cattle before it is separated from the chaff; the grain shall be so abundant that it shall be given winnowed. shovel -- by which the grain was thrown up in the wind to separate it from the chaff. fan -- an instrument for winnowing. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
  • Noa; my missus did not loike me to chaffer much with neighbour Joplin, for she was but a bad 'un, -- pretty fease, too. Lucretia — Volume 06
  • People skim those ‘chiff-chaff’ little notes and forget them the next moment. The Silver Spoon
  • It is curious to imagine what chaff might be produced if these two millstones ever came together, and started grinding.
  • There is no wheat without chaff. 
  • The audience, after watching this performance a moment or two, began making their bets, both individually and through the agency of the "farmer," who, standing in the centre of the ring, cried out chaffingly in Visayan to faint-hearted gamesters. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
  • Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
  • I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange. The Dignity of Dollars
  • In the course of their "chaffing" they came to a spot about four miles from Paris, Illinois, where they saw a pig stuck in the mud and squealing lustily. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
  • By the side of it a man was setting out on an eating-stand a half-eaten ham, chaffy rolls and pies yellow with age. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
  • The first round of interviews really separates the wheat from the chaff.
  • Wheat will be sorted from chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • She diarised en route, ‘I am tired of the gilded chaff of single life and my being craves for more substantial food of married life - even though it be rye bread.’
  • He thrust his hand into the stack of chaff up to the elbow without feeling a thing.
  • Tyco, based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, makes fire-prevention products and security components. Schneider Backs Away From Tyco Deal
  • Not all coughs are innocent, though, so how can you sort the wheat from the chaff? Times, Sunday Times
  • After a little good-humoured chaffing and laughing James managed to get rid of the rollicky crew, and shut the court-yard gates, having first made the round of the premises with Turk, the great bloodhound, just to satisfy himself that no loiterer was concealed among the bushes with felonious intentions. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
  • The chaffery wheele in the west side, old and decayed, 3lb to repaire it. Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
  • It went to my heart to oppose her in any wish; and also this kind of chaffy opposition might pain her. The Lady of the Shroud
  • If some of these may, perchance, find a kernel of profit out of the mass of chaff attendant, my idle half-hours in the postmeridian of life will not have been entirely misspent. Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
  • A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot 
  • Ah, you say that because you are a Turk," said Charley chaffingly. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
  • It certainly sorts the wheat from the chaff when it comes to big movie stars. The Sun
  • We sifted through the application forms to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  • Red clover flowers, strawberry leaves and comfrey leaves help to mend damaged cells, including chaffed or wind-blown skin.
  • Chaffinches and cowbirds are not the only birds that teach song to their young.
  • DOBBS: Well, I'm still kind of chaffing at the idea that they can't ask one another questions, and offer rebuttal to one another's statement. CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2004
  • Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1
  • IWC Schaffhausen has produced only a hand full of women's watches but the brand's unabashedly masculine output has been seen on female wrists lately, including those of Cate Blanchett and Elle Macpherson. An Icon That Withstands the Test of Time
  • The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds.
  • A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
  • The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds.
  • It doesn't help that in spite of being a first-term convict serving a short sentence for bank robbery, Chaffee was a nice guy. Dannie martin: long day's journey into death
  • Food: Swiss cheese small chaffy dish, meat hotpot, carrot cakes, etc.
  • It is essentially a modified hot-air popcorn popper, with an added nifty chamber which collects the chaff from the coffee beans as they roast.
  • He that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully: what is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord? The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
  • A reduced Doppler shift also enhances the effectiveness of chaff and decoys, which should allow the aircraft to break lock and hide in ground clutter.
  • Navy procedures for limiting the use of essential training equipment such as chaff, flares, and radar-warning gear to only fleet assigned aircraft and those working up for sea duty was also identified as a problem.
  • Badawi (vol.v. 98), with its reminiscence of “chaffy” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • But Pavelic said experienced detectives can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff.
  • The countermeasures system can dispense chaff cartridges and infrared flares and the POET and GEN-X active expendable decoys.
  • It's fuelled by coffee chaff, which we pick up from the cafes around the area. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plan B would flood the stratosphere with billions of tiny metal-coated balloons, ‘optical chaff’ to backscatter the sun's rays.
  • Test house Schaffner EMC has developed a software suite that can be configured to handle any combination of electrical emission and immunity tests.
  • The words of praise he gives his memory are like golden grains amid the chaffy _verbiage_ with which he defends himself. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
  • Which is a shame because strip away the chaff and you will find an interesting, diverse artist who has produced an impressive body of work.
  • Alles tritt in Spiel ein, wenn ein kreativer ein Gestein gegen das Format eines Stuhls und das unglaubliches bringt, das wir gewöhnlich in den schönsten vom Menschen geschaffenen Plastiken sehen, wir können sie in Prozess in diesem vulkanischen Stuhl beobachten. 3 in 1 chair : Chair Ssstoel
  • The warbling of a chaffinch flitting through the bushes. Earl of Durkness
  • M - 1 Tank Your first order when fighting this thing is to jam its sensors with a chaff grenade.
  • Then did each page as I turned it over bring some fresh recollection of one's unspeakable sense of newness and desolation; the haunting fear of doing something ludicrous; the morbid dread of chaff and of being "greened," which even in my time had, happily, supplanted the old terrors of being tossed in a blanket or roasted at a fire. Collections and Recollections
  • The little diary contained also the entry of Geoffrey French's visit -- a long week-end, during which as far as Lucy could remember, Helena and he had never ceased "chaffing" from morning till night, and Helena had certainly never given him any opportunity for love-making. Helena
  • IWC Schaffhausen's Portuguese Hand-wound 5454 dips into the company archives to revive an old line—super-precision pocket watch-style wristwatches originally launched 70 years ago. Time Warp
  • We chaffered a good deal, but at last a bargain was struck.
  • But now she had done her chaffer, and was looking about her as if to note the folk for her disport; but when she came across a child, whether it were borne in arms or led by its kinswomen, or were going alone, as were some, she seemed more heedful of it, and eyed it more closely than aught else. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • The falls are at Neuhausen, an extension of Schaffhausen to the south, rather than a suburb of it.
  • It's easy to fall in love with particular images, even mediocre ones, but with time it also becomes easier to winnow the wheat from the chaff.
  • Each is defined as a carmine lake, and published instructions to create them are similar; Schäffer also includes carmine in his hierarchy of red colors. 2 Schäffer's system suggests that the three are separate colors; did he learn their differences from his color merchant? The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Time will winnow the wheat from the chaff but it won't diminish the pleasure of Lane's reviews.
  • Some independent-minded journalists chaffed at embed restrictions, which required embeds to stay with assigned units.
  • So, today, I had a thunderstruck few minutes when I entered the bookshop, comprehending just how much chaff has been created by Dan Brown's bloody book.
  • They sowed seed by hand, harvested using a curved sickle, threshed grain with a hand flail, and winnowed it by throwing it into the air and letting the wind carry away the chaff.
  • It wants the fund to be used to'sort the wheat from the chaff' by seeing how well drugs really work. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, there's a hell of a lot of chaff to go through as well.
  • He asked her how she could bear to go off chambermaiding and leave her boys; and chaffingly offered to copy off a series of their fingerprints, reaching up to their twelfth year, for her to remember them by; but she sobered in a moment, wondering if he suspected anything; then she said she believed she didn't want them. Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • You have to sort the wheat from the chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • He found the restaurant just shutting, and Daddy apparently on the wing for the 'White Horse' parlour, to judge from the relief which showed in Dora's worn look as she saw her father lay down his hat and stick again and fall 'chaffing' with David. The History of David Grieve
  • Phylogeny and species limits in the Palearctic Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) complex: mitochondrial genetic variation and bioacoustic evidence. Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
  • These are chaffinches, yellowhammers and reed buntings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also a young robin, a fledgeling great-tit being given a lesson in how to work bird feeders by a harrassed-looking parent, a couple of adolescent blackbirds from the parents' first brood I think they are now feeding nestlings on their second, and a noisy family of chaffinches. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff?
  • They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap. Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
  • Schaffer had Murray hit left-handed every other day before home games for about three weeks.
  • The wise leader identifies the kernel and blows the chaff away. Christianity Today
  • Abundant and well-preserved phytoliths from the soils within the carinated bowls indicate that they may have contained grass inflorescences and/or corn cob chaff at the time they were placed in the graves.
  • Initially the second Exocet's radar locked onto the Invincible; however, large amounts of chaff caused it to break lock.
  • The dance was very well done, and the native audience enjoyed it thoroughly, calling out chaffingly in Visayan to the couple on the floor, and occasionally beating time to the music with hand or foot. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
  • In the squares the black folk chaffered and bargained over plantains, beer and hammered brass ornaments. The Conan Chronicles
  • I think the real danger if you take them off a balancer or trace element supplement and just feed them chaff or local stuff then they can become short of breath.
  • False scripts were written that disturbed the tabloids' radar like metallic chaff.
  • Very fond of what is called chaffing, in his dealings with men, he never found himself on a sofa beside a member of the softer sex without feeling extremely serious. The American
  • Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified); How to get back to nature when camping
  • He chaffed us about our oarsmanship in the lifeboats, saying the appearance of our oars wildly waving reminded him of the sails of a windmill. Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'
  • Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing. Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year?
  • We have to sift through the application forms very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  • The countermeasures system includes a pilot illumination radar warning receiver, chaff and infrared decoy dispensers, and an active multi-mode jammer located in the wingtip pods.
  • Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
  • Initially, we flew pure chaff missions where instead of bombs we were loaded with boxes and boxes of chaff that we dumped while circling over the target before the bombers got there.
  • They are chaffering about nothing in particular.
  • The court is now able to winnow the grain from the chaff, as the Photo Production reasoning is embodied in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, s. 9.
  • Then the chaff - the husks and debris - was ‘winnowed’ or blown off the heavier grain with the aid of the wind or with fans.
  • To separate the chaff from ( grain ) by means of a current of air.
  • It won't help you to sort the wheat from the chaff any more than a good dose of common sense. Times, Sunday Times
  • It won't help you to sort the wheat from the chaff any more than a good dose of common sense. Times, Sunday Times
  • Note, Though godly people may share with the wicked in the calamities of the world, yet wicked people shall have no share with the godly in the heavenly Canaan; but it shall be part of the blessedness of that world that they shall be purged out from among them, the tares from the wheat, the chaff from the corn, ch. xiii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Some of the passengers chaffered with a fishing boat to take them off, and we saw them on the waterfront, asking for news. The Mask of Apollo
  • A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
  • All of which leads to my final concern, and it comes back to sorting out the wheat from the chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘We monitor and maintain electrical systems, ejection seats, launch and recovery systems and load chaff,’ CPL Rock said.
  • There is no wheat without chaff. 
  • As already stated, King Alexander II. granted the teind of his duties of Auchterarder, and, by a subsequent charter, amongst other grants he confirmed the grant of these churches to Inchaffray. Chronicles of Strathearn
  • To keep the radiator from plugging up with seeds and chaff, we wrapped it and the grill with window screen.
  • This could involve reaping the gains from some of your better performers or, alternatively, getting rid of some of the chaff that has performed consistently poorly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mohamed searches out quality (most of his list costs north of £20 a bottle), but there is simply no chaff.
  • Grunge provided an opportunity, as punk had before, for separating the wheat from the chaff—annihilating acts that had truly been predicated on nothing but hairstyles and codpieces, and allowing reconsideration and critical filtering of arena rock, metal, and prog that might have been burdened with excessive pompousness and trippy kozmik imagery, but still possessed enduring value. Rush: a fan’s notes - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca
  • The chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.
  • They greeted me with warmth, and soon Dulcis began to chatter like a chiffchaff about a new suitor, and I was wholeheartedly grateful that she was more interested in herself than me. Wildfire
  • A person in clean moccasins then ‘danced the rice’ treading on it to remove the hull and then tossing it into the air to winnow the chaff.
  • It had been very sparing also in its use of the Chaffinch's note, until one in the neighbourhood had begun to _twink, twink, twink_; then the Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
  • Chaff is the husk of wheat and other grains; to mill the grain the chaff must be separated from the grain.
  • They ask good questions that sort the wheat from the chaff. Times, Sunday Times
  • Traveling from Zurich to Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in October 1913, Jung was roused by a troubling vision of "European-wide destruction. Jung Confronts His Demons
  • It's cheaper to use a disk-till on my 2000 acres than to buy a straw chopper and chaff spreader for my combine.
  • But, because of this easier access, telling wheat from chaff is more difficult. Times, Sunday Times
  • A person in clean moccasins then ‘danced the rice’ treading on it to remove the hull and then tossing it into the air to winnow the chaff.
  • Chris Waywell winnows the wheat from the chaff in this elusive subject.
  • It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…
  • The horse-way lay on the outer side of the stable, and none of the men cared to tramp round out there in the dark, driving for the chaff-cutter, so Pelle had to do it. Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
  • House birds like the blue tit or the chaffinch eat seeds or insects, which are easy to find in the countryside when the weather is mild, as it has been for this winter so far. Why Britain's garden birds are staying in the country
  • How 'chaffy' and frivolous this gay world of London appeared to these first Publishers, consumed with the burning eagerness of their mission, the following description shows. A Book of Quaker Saints
  • Palate: = hypopharynx; q.v. Paleace: chaff or chaffy: = paleaceous. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • They are often seen with flocks of chaffinches, who also feed on beechmast, though not so obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
  • Maxine is thinking of all those bright, young, energetic people who came out of some of our best universities and opted to go to work for investment banks, not in technical jobs, but as traders, ratings specialists, analysts, again to support the conversion of trillions of dollars into chaff. Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy
  • We have to sift through the application forms very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  • Surely you won't expose your experimental car to the chance of being rammed by the Motor Pirate," remarked Winter, chaffingly. The Motor Pirate
  • This is a fantastic way of sorting the wheat from the chaff, but implementation has been delayed - another lost opportunity. Times, Sunday Times
  • The electronic warfare systems include a radar warning receiver and automatic or manually operated chaff and flare dispensers.
  • • Large flocks of chaffinch with some bramblings in woodland, abundant redwing and fieldfare in hawthorn hedges, and rare waxwings appearing in unusually high numbers. British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather
  • Together with the introduced species of chaffinch, goldfinch, yellowhammer, skylark, magpie, etc, they provide a tuneful accompaniment to your walk.
  • Bourdieu's analysis is the sublation of Flaubert's novel: what it keeps is the book's true hidden nature, and all that it sloughs off is chaff.
  • When all the applications came in, our first task was to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  • And the chaff is a great big huge gigantic pile all right! TIME’Sphere « Sphere Blog
  • The Nagel-Schaffner approach to theory reduction assumes a syntactic account of theory structure such that they are axiomatized systems formalizable in first order predicate calculus. Reductionism in Biology
  • She would open the hankies every morning after her morning prayers and count out fifteen piles of eighteen cents, eighteen being the corresponding number to the Hebrew letters in the word chaff, meaning life. My life as a woman
  • Separate the wheat from the chaff

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