How To Use Grist In A Sentence
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At the abandoned fort, the 54th destroyed more than fifty bales of cotton, a gristmill, and a sawmill.
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It's all grist to the mill.
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In 1746 a gristmill was established on the site, which survived in use until 1866, when it was moved and continued to grind for many more years.
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Remove any gristle from the chicken livers and season.
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Each of them has the power to exert enormous influence over the gristmill through which government funding is pulverized into short and long term support.
Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment
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Independent researchers are supposed to provide a counterbalance, thwarting the drug industry's tendency to turn research studies into marketing grist.
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In the early spring of 1762 Hazen joined the pioneers with a party of settlers who built a primitive sawmill and gristmill and constructed rude shelters.
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That's because once the balls stop bouncing, the mouths start blabbering, providing precious grist for the league's rumor mill.
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In colonial America, small streams powered rural grist mills and sawmills.
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Polyps are simply lumps of gristle in your stomach.
The Sun
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Political sex scandals are all grist to the mill of the tabloid newspapers.
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The primary thrust has been to provide greater grist for litigation, rather than tackling the hard work of defining acceptable conduct.
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I figured Tommy Lee Jones would be playing his usual gristled, tough sheriff.
Movies, Ice Cream & the GIMP
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The notochord is a continuous rod of cartilage, or gristle, which in the embryological growth of vertebrate animals supports the spinal nerve cord before the formation of the vertebrae.
The Elements of Geology
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A gristle is a substance softer than bone, and harder than the rest, flexible, and serves to maintain the parts of motion.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I'm having to override some kind of lockout... good thing I bought that lockpick grist instead of paying my rent that time... there.
METAPLANETARY
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So-called cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, with their gristly, rubbery flesh, are increasingly under threat from fishermen around the world.
Euronews
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The taco was a little tough and gristly, but everything was improved by the addition of a generous spoonful of tangy, thin red sauce and a chunkier salsa verde, both served icy-cold.
Last Night « PubliCola
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Babies have gristle in some parts of the skull.
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At one point as I was wading through gravy, gristle and fat that was masquerading as lamb cutlets, I thought I found a prime piece of meat.
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The starters were poor, though, a thinnish seafood broth with chunks of tinned tomato expiring at the bottom and a ham hough terrine that, while chunkily rustic, contained too much gristle for comfort.
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The demand for grain was increasing and the gristmills were unable to keep up with the production.
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Discard the gristle where you come across it.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was in the third scene of the second act; Spiegelberg discoursing with Razmann, observes, "An honest man you may form of windle-straws; but to make a rascal you must have grist: besides, there is a national genius in it, a certain rascal-climate, so to speak.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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The owners of early 19 th-century New England grist mills were usually rather prosperous men, and like most of the population at that time, the majority were farmers.
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BLOCK: And Peter Sloma (ph) of Fish Creek, Wisconsin had this to say: While so much of the rest of the news media is destroying any potential we have left for rational public discourse, NPR has made the choice of joining in by serving up this bleeding, gristled hunk of red meat - and over and over again, at that.
Letters: The Florida Pastor And 'No Crying In Baseball'
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Soon the gristmills were no longer needed except in occasional places where they were used to grind livestock feed.
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Remaining vultures grab slabs of softened gristle and greedily devour them.
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So we now have enough grist in the mill for Secretary Paulson's visit to China.
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Needless to say there was indeed a nice mouse-sized chunk of Harry's favourite gristle-packed stewing steak oozing gore on a covered saucer in the fridge.
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In colonial America, small streams powered rural grist mills and sawmills.
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In England a ham sandwich is a cold, pink punch in the face, an angry thing marbled with gristly neglect.
Why we must savour the rare English delicacy that is Jack Wilshere
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I could feel it, and it was almost like he was cutting through gristle on a steak, Stankavich said in an interview.
Lack of training can be deadly in cosmetic surgery
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My first tastes of venison were much like Douglas 'mom, from deer that were killed on dog drives, gut shot, hauled around in pickups then, to paraphrase Tom Kelly, haggled into unidentifiable hunks of bloody gristle by a succession of drunks with rusty saws and hatchets.
Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better?
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I never refuse odd jobs to supplement my income it's all grist to the mill.
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He left Morgan in 2004 and moved to Malvern, Pa., into the converted barracks of a 19th-century gristmill, while Alex stayed behind in their three-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper East Side.
Downshift
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Our reading from Romans 8 contains gospel grist for any number of sermons and is a text to which we pastors resort often in times of loss and perplexity.
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As Eliot over at Buzzfeed so astutely points out: the definition of gristle is “tough cartilaginous, tendinous, or fibrous matter especially in table meats.”
Guy Ritchie Compares Madonna To A Piece Of Gristle | Best Week Ever
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Remove the chicken skin and debone the thighs, removing gristle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cartilages of the knee are two C-shaped pads, composed of an elastin-rich fibrous tissue which we physicians call ‘gristle‘.
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These issues have been the grist for leadership discussions.
Christianity Today
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In addition to lots of other go-fast gristle, the WRX STI is equipped with a complex AWD system that includes front and rear limited-slip differentials and an adjustable center differential that basically allows you to dial in increasing levels of power-on oversteer, depending on road and track conditions.
Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing
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They make the film interesting and do their best to be horrified gristle for the ghoulish girl out to exact revenge on them.
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The starters were poor, though, a thinnish seafood broth with chunks of tinned tomato expiring at the bottom and a ham hough terrine that, while chunkily rustic, contained too much gristle for comfort.
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The woman thought it was a piece of gristle she was chewing on.
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It's all grist to the mill.
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All experience is grist; but he can't plant his easel before a nude, a still-life, a landscape, nor transform a personality tangle into a sonnet-sequence or a novella.
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Gretchen chewed energetically on the gristled steak.
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I would like to ask the admiral if modifications have been made to the grist after the subversion successes on Titan.
METAPLANETARY
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What does Mary always say, horrible creature, as she spears the hideous lumps of gristle on her fork?
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It was all great grist for the late nite comics last night.
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The ground meal or grist is next thoroughly mixed with very warm water in large tuns or keeves for a period of about two hours.
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The fat cook will carefully trim away the suet and gristle from a roast or some chops and then instead of discarding it, rub the bits with garlic and salt and fry them up as a solitary hors d - oeuvre.
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On a cold blustery March day in 1839, when she was nineteen, Susan moved with her family two miles down the Battenkill to the little settlement of Hardscrabble, later called Center Falls, where her father owned a satinet factory and grist mill, built in more prosperous times.
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
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If you have ever made the mistake of eating merguez in a French motorway cafeteria you will know how horrible the commercial kind can be: gristly, fatty, staggeringly salty.
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By acting in this irresponsible manner they have not only provided a grist to the mill of the communalists and regional chauvinists but have also damaged the credibility of the coalition ministry.
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Lionel pointed to a gristly gray lighted stairwell made of out clay.
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Plus ... there're no fiddly, gristly bits to deal with.
The Taming of the 'Fu
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I might as well learn another language, it's all grist to the mill when it comes to getting a job.
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The pink mass of processed meat, gristle, salt, water, stabilizer, emulsifier and anti-oxidant slid forth in a solid mass.
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Documents just made public may provide grist for his opponents.
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Winter; but being stopt that course, or lost; grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable, and kipper, that is, to have a bony gristle, to grow (not unlike a Hauks beak) on one of his chaps, which hinders him from feeding, and then he pines and dies.
The Compleat Angler
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Any publicity is good - it's all grist to the mill.
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His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste.
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His guitar is a gristly sandblast to the eardrums, buzzing over a keyed-up rhythm section, and the raw mix doesn't shave off the edges.
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Grist : How do you think drinking water should be managed and distributed?
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So-called cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, with their gristly, rubbery flesh, are increasingly under threat from fishermen around the …
Euronews
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My first tastes of venison were much like Douglas 'mom, from deer that were killed on dog drives, gut shot, hauled around in pickups then, to paraphrase Tom Kelly, haggled into unidentifiable hunks of bloody gristle by a succession of drunks with rusty saws and hatchets.
Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better?
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Salt farms and gristmills dotted the coastline, their windmills tapping the sea breezes for energy.
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Marching (100x15)
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The total illuminates, thrills and provides much useful grist - both artistic and museological - for the art-world mill.
NYT > Home Page
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My roast veal was three rectangular pieces of beast with the grey, gristly flavour of school silverside.
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Are they greasy, gristly, or the best pasties in Plymouth?
Budget eats in Plymouth
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The Distant Hours, by Kate Morton (Mantle, £16.99) Kate Morton's trick, performed here and in previous bestsellers such as The Forgotten Garden, is to mash together several classic novels likely to have been loved as children by her target readership – I Capture the Castle, The Secret Garden, Jane Eyre, and so on – then force the resulting sludge through a sieve to remove any gristly bits.
Thrillers – review
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English food isn't all about gristly roast beef, boiled potatoes, instant gravy and overcooked veg.
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Trim the chicken livers of any gristle and cut off any discoloured bits.
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The grist of commercial radio also is relationships, with callers discussing the range of concerns from distribution of money for food and school fees, to domestic violence, alcoholism, affairs, and recipes.
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My lamb kebab with vegetables and potatoes was chewy and gristly and contained offal which some people may not like.
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My friend was having problems of her own, every few moments ducking her head to furtively expunge small pieces of gristle into her napkin.
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Granted, the smell isn't rosy, and the work can be tough on your hump - a lumpen mass of gristle, muscle, bone and sinew - but this ensures you don't dawdle on the job.
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The sheer number of fighting vehicles and crack German and Russian divisions engaging in combat there provides grist for any reader of military history, casual or professional.
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“Women like a man with a sensitive side,” Nutz said, chewing a piece of hyena gristle that dangled out of his mouth, giving him a debonair, devil-may-care air.
My Brain is a Pre-Historic Babe Magnet
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People take a long time to die, accompanied by the cracking of bone, the resistance of gristle, dire last-gasp gurgles and rattles.
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Ground beef is easy to work with because there's no bone, extraneous gristle or visible fat to trim, and no pounding needed to flatten or marinating to tenderize.
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You could practically hear the sound of the gristled New York press corps rolling its eyes.
American Beat: A Media Puppet Show
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Although a hock, which weighs up to a kilo, is mostly skin, bone and gristle, it will also yield 200g of moist bacon meat, which can be added to soup or used in a salad.
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Tonight, Lown gets down to the gristle with a lecture titled Mountain Men Vittles.
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It's all grist to the mill.
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Often thought of as clumsy and gristle filled, Austrian cuisine is as varied and sophisticated as any contemporary Asian menu.
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Their failure provides grist for conservative educational ideologues to victim-bash and propagate the phony notion of chronic black educational incompetence.
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There was a small gristmill, a sawmill, a blacksmith shop, an ashery and half a dozen houses, all rudely built, planted in a surrounding of stumps, with the bush encircling all.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
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My friend thought it was a little too dry, and although I didn't totally agree, I did think the portion was far too boney, with too much gristle and not enough meat.
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Far too many occasions of the word “little”; I think “grizzle” should have been “gristle” and there; and the narrative occasionally veered into encyclopedia-speak.
A DAY AT THE FUR AUCTION • by Stephen Taylor
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Also, am I alone in the fact that whenever I hear the term gristle, I think of the best line from The Great Outdoors, “THERE’S NOTHIN’ ON THAT PLATE BUT GRISTLE AND FAT!”
Guy Ritchie Compares Madonna To A Piece Of Gristle | Best Week Ever
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I would like to ask the admiral if modifications have been made to the grist after the subversion successes on Titan.
METAPLANETARY
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I was told too that he visited butcher's shops and made off with scraps of bone or gristle.
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One thing I will hand to the bakeries that have trendified this dessert — and sell it for $3.50 per slice — is that two years ago, I’d have been hard-pressed to find these cookies in any store seriously, I still can’t even find the product on Nabisco’s website and now, not only do they hold some shelf-space at my local Gristedes, I can order them from Amazon.
Icebox cake | smitten kitchen
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Remove the chicken skin and debone the thighs, removing gristle.
Times, Sunday Times
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What does Mary always say, horrible creature, as she spears the hideous lumps of gristle on her fork?
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But those weasel phrases get tiresome after a while, and people do tend to gloss over them; and, hey, I'm always interested in finding more gnarly ideas to take apart and play with; so I thought that even if I am going to blather away with my own jazz riffs on what I understand Todorov or Clute to be saying -- to grab these basic themes wherever I find them, see if I can play them back by ear, and if they sound right run with that, rephrasing them and putting them through the conversions, inversions and reversions of my own twisty, turny logic -- well, more grist for the mill is always fun.
Freeform Critique
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Its muscular body has only a long piece of tough, bending tissue called gristle, which acts as a spine.
Your Challenge for the Day
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The lives of American troopers -- men and women -- are cruelly appropriated for the gristmill of domestic politics.
Michael Vlahos: Mon General McChrystal
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This is plausible but too pat, and condescending in the bargain: Lesy's homiletics treat life as though it were merely grist for parables.
Who Has What It Takes To Be A Hero?
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Furthermore, the multiple perspectives may offer the grist needed for marshaling varied arguments on local levels.
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All these actions would appear to be, and indeed were, grist for the anti-imperial mill — but those protests are omitted here, which makes one wonder if some progressives 'opposition to "empire" is determined less by principle than by politics.
The Lost Crusade
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This result will be grist for many theoretical papers no doubt, but at the moment we have no understanding of why it is so.
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I'm having to override some kind of lockout... good thing I bought that lockpick grist instead of paying my rent that time... there.
METAPLANETARY
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You know what the categories are - ultramontane, gallican, liberal, integriste, laicite, anticlerical, etc. - they were virtually invented here, and they never change.
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The Ballyhoura mountain range is the most popular local venue for hill walking and Griston Bog is signposted in Ballylanders.
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The taco was a little tough and gristly, but everything was improved by the addition of a generous spoonful of tangy, thin red sauce and a chunkier salsa verde, both served icy-cold.
Last Night « PubliCola
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We are all grist and generalized matter, and most of our weaponry is manufactured and operates on a nanometer level.
METAPLANETARY
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You get the feeling that daily dilemmas are grist to the mill for Singh, who seems to thrive on the push and pull of the restaurant trade.
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It may not even be wise to dedicate large chunks of city space to agriculture, as Daniel Nairn argues at Grist: Cities need to be dense to promote energy efficiency.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Local Food--Where Sustainability Meets Self-Reliance
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On Merced's fiftieth birthday, the then Martian government approved the dissemination of grist over all human-made surfaces on the planet.
METAPLANETARY
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I know that even then, had I answered him differently the matter would not have ended as it did, but my spirit rose proud and defiant, and I said with a tone of mock levity, 'How long a journey do you purpose taking, Mr. Blake? is it to the grist-mill, or to the sawmill, which is a little farther away?'
Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past
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As he removes the surprisingly large lump of gristle from his sausage, he coughs and shifts nervously in his seat.
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I now leave you with a recipe for this dish, which through hard work and culinary ingenuity catapults a cut of gristled beef from its rough-hewn, lowly beginnings to delectable and iconic heights.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Polyps are simply lumps of gristle in your stomach.
The Sun
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Any publicity is good - it's all grist to the mill.
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Armed with the kind of gristle only acquired through years of experience, Obits is the sound of Brooklyn sharpening its teeth once again, just in time for that long overdue bite in the arse those condo-dwelling hipsters - the ones who wouldn't know Hot Snakes from The Blues Magoos - mucking up the old neighborhoods are in dire need of.
JamBase
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Somehow or other he heard that there was a place on Swift River called the gristmill, where there was almost all the wheat in the world -- at least that is what Frisky heard.
The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
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The close-quarter action photography with gristle and bone is spliced with dizzy shots of flying masonry launched by ginormous trebuchets.
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The grist was plentiful for Barstow, part of a two-man Times team whose reports on workplace safety were entered in both the investigative reporting and public service categories.
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Then she knelt in the folds of the white nightgown, fabric endlessly laundered, beaten with swirled soap, left gristled and stiff.
Underworld
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If that's the case, Dr. Robison's thorough refutation of the conventional wisdom on childhood obesity ought to provide ample grist for the next round of stories on America's battle with the bulge.
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Finally, the dishes had been picked clean of even gristle and crunchy brown bits, and stacked neatly, awaiting transportation back to the kitchen.
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If there is even a suspicion of truth in tributes which have, to the last eulogist, declared the sublime, apple-tumescing appeal of a plump, lustful, self-destructive alcoholic, whose excesses make top femme fatale Angelina Jolie look like a much tattooed Milly-Molly-Mandy, you have to wonder if blanched, gristly diet victims along Renée Zellweger's lines really represent any kind of shared ideal.
The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett
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The close-quarter action photography with gristle and bone is spliced with dizzy shots of flying masonry launched by ginormous trebuchets.
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There were bakeries, wine presses and grist mills.
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Inferior cuts of mutton can be used advantageously for this dish, such as scrag-end or breast of mutton; the bones and gristle with long stewing give a nice flavor to the dish.
The Story of Crisco
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It's all grist to the mill.
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There is no doubt that this chronological telling, which is scrupulously accurate in its lengthy citations of Luther's writings, provides abundant grist for anti - Protestant polemics.
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Options to time equities to grist to energy sinks and potentiality wells, Danis, his portfolio, said.
METAPLANETARY
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Enviro-blog Gristreports that a common additive to microwave popcorn, diacetyl, can lead to a condition called bronchiolitis obliterans.
Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Microwave popcorn = lung destroyer
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Also buried here is a son, Sherwood White, who operated a grist mill on Second Creek a few miles west of Rogersville.
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Shampoos on the market can have "wack" chemicals in them, as Grist's Umbra Fiske puts it, linked to cancer, reproductive and developmental issues.
How To Make Your Own Shampoo (VIDEO)
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All is grist that comes to the mill.
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At one point as I was wading through gravy, gristle and fat that was masquerading as lamb cutlets, I thought I found a prime piece of meat.
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This fits well with current threads on grist and inkstain, where the protagonists walk right past what could have been done ten and twenty years ago if clear scientific conclusions had been honestly accepted and well into the postmodernist framing debate.
Archive 2008-04-01
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I never refuse odd jobs to supplement my income it's all grist to the mill.
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The tough, stringy gristle of the child psyche is tenderized, and, after prolonged broiling, at the maw of bedtime, child flesh goes down easy.
The Case Against Summer
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You might as well take another exam if you have time - it's all grist to the mill.
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Technical investigations often reveal pentimento - a painting beneath another one - adding further grist to the academic mill.
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He is a great talker, a charming and incurable optimist, and everything is grist to his mill.
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I need not tell you all this is in strict confidence; and if the plan does not jib, which is not very probable, will bring lots of grist to the mill.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
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Perhaps Grist's greatest success with this book is in creating a genuinely unputdownable comic.
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He also constructed a gristmill, wharf, and boatyard, and shipped the products of his furnace as far as New Orleans.
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Suppose I were to dress in corduroy and run a grist mill.
The Miller of Old Church
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And some make a paste for the winter months, at which time the Chub is accounted best, for then it is observed, that the forked bones are lost, or turned into a kind of gristle, especially if he be baked, of cheese and turpentine.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
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All is grist that comes to the mill.
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It actually fuels the logic of intervention, providing grist for interventionist rationales.
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Every delay was grist to his mill.
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Discard the gristle where you come across it.
Times, Sunday Times
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They burnt not children before their teeth appeared, as apprehending their bodies too tender a morsel for fire, and that their gristly bones would scarce leave separable relicks after the pyral combustion.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Chevron, California's largest native oil refiner, is officially neutral on Prop 23, but Grist argues it supports Prop 26 because it's a "polluters protection act.
Christopher Mims: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar: Psychoanalyzing the GOP's Flourishing Climate Skepticism
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All of a sudden there is a yelp from the table in the far corner and a woman spits out two small gristly bits of meat.
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But almost any small burg that sprang up along a stream in Alabama soon had a working grist mill capable of milling the non-glutinous corn.
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He recently finished a series of photos of old grist mills.
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In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes.
The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01
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I can't imagine what it would be like to have every minute detail of my life become grist for public criticism and scrutiny.
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He makes some daring analyses about censor interference that were fascinating grist for rumination.
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There's really not a helluva lot going on in lakeside that's worth a newspaper article, so a few B&Es is fuel for the grist mill.
Let's Be Careful Out There-Chula Vista Robberies
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Arlo wondered if his wife noticed the gristly lumps that had formed along the old scar on Shadow's neck, where the footpad of Cody's dirt bike had caught her.
Deer Collage
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They found grist for their conspiracy theories in the most innocent of details.
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Principally it consisted of chunks of fatty streaky bacon supporting great lumps of gristle, with the odd bit of sausage.
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All of that is good grist for Winchester, who summarizes the grand debates on evolution and even pauses at one point to provide a refresher course in geology in the form of a walk through rockscapes of his childhood.
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Gondolas loaded with small rocks and rubble discharged the load in two huge Austin crushers that operated much like a grist mill pulverizing the stone.
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With the biblical passages you've given me (especially that one from Luke 22), you've given my mind enough grist to turn over for the next couple of weeks.
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Out of 600 such letters -- a typical day's grist -- the chances are but half will be written in Italian, followed in the order of their numerousness, by those inscribed in Polish, French and Scandinavian.
The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
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But times have changed, content standards have loosened, and cable is able to target a niche crowd that likes a little gristle in their TV diet.
Is TV Too Gory?
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But the apparent paradoxes generate great grist for mystery mongers.
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Both women tore into gristly steaks using sheer will more than the sharpness of their cutlery.
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This little old lady, all gristle and smiles, made a good living from an enormous impenetrable swamp, trapping coyotes for 25 dollars in bounty and 25 dollars from pelts.
Study Concludes That Coyotes Kill Pet Cats
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Arlo wondered if his wife noticed the gristly lumps that had formed along the old scar on Shadow's neck, where the footpad of Cody's dirt bike had caught her.
Deer Collage
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It's a nice, gristly, Germanic word, contrasting with the limitless space evoked by the latinate "America".
Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke
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The troubles and vicissitudes, however, through which it passed, were happily brought to an end by the wise rule of Abbot Benedict Sigrist, in the seventeenth century, who is justly called the restorer of his monastery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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He grins, and there are bits of gristle and meat stuck in his teeth.
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Mechanized trawlers have been killing the adults for a while now, their shells washed ashore providing the gristly evidence.
Bharati Chaturvedi: Turning People Turtles in East India
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That will be grist to McGeechan's mill after an afternoon in which his side struggled to wear down obdurate but limited opponents.
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The reintroduction of a deeply resented tax on grist in the former papal provinces of Emilia and Romagna provoked widespread unrest in the late 1860s.
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All is grist that comes to the mill.
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A rather gristled point to make to the face of an 84 y.o. man, but Carter took it in stride.
"How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?"
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Parker's mug in the previous book, you'll see it's an older, grizzlier face, more gristle than meat, a face like a cauliflower ear.
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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This subject is interesting grist for graduate seminars, but campus leaders have limited options when faced with a finite budget and rising demand for educational programs and services.
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One vignette from a black gamer really struck me, and it's full of grist for the social science mill:
A Black Gamer Speaks, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Printed, as always, on acid-free paper and set in Galliard type, bound in the finest binding cloth, and topped off with a ribbon marker, the better to mark memorable passages, such a volume would be grist for a million dissertation mills: automat see ammonia try petrifaction in capistrano be mosaic! algorithmic or gregory try attack the stool on checkerberry it cedric not bullhead or duke and bankruptcy not mint some reinstate may vice some conflagrate on cell, alsop on cycad be haphazard
Boing Boing
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The steak is gristly and pretty tasteless - the latter a characteristic it shares with the dull chips.
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Lumps of gristle bound muscle to bone and, when I walked, one hip ground in its socket like sandpaper.
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The Warm spring issues with a very bold stream, sufficient to work a grist-mill, and to keep the waters of its bason, which is 30 feet in diameter, at the vital warmth, viz. 96° of Farenheit's thermometer.
Notes on the State of Virginia.
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Political sex scandals are all grist to the mill of the tabloid newspapers.
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Long nights of Pierrot locked inside invisible boxes, trapped and wailing soundlessly, of Pierrot suspended from invisible trees by invisible ropes, of Pierrot ascending stairs and descending stairs, of Pierrot gesturing the gristly aftermath of a death by Russian Roulette.
The Clown Show
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If the adversaries can't agree on a ‘fair’ plea, one side holds out until the other blinks, or they duke it out in trial, where relevant facts are the grist for a good defense.
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Over at Grist, an environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis interviews Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories): Science fiction, traditionally, is very much a technophilic sort of literature.
February 2008
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Blood and gristle were blasted over the ground.
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The quality was great, with no fat or gristle - it tasted like steak.
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The Warm spring issues with a very bold stream, sufficient to work a grist-mill, and to keep the waters of its bason, which is 30 feet in diameter, at the vital warmth, viz. 96x of Farenheit's thermometer.
Notes on the State of Virginia
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The stocky, fair-haired farmer ran his gristled, work-worn hand over his tanned and troubled face.
Surrender A Dream
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When those returns are compiled in a single report, they become a story of failure and grist for the ‘I told you so’ crowd and the budgeteers who see reason to strip money for the system from the next budget.
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I never refuse odd jobs to supplement my income it's all grist to the mill.
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In the brewery the malt is ground into a coarse powder called grist.
