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    1. So had it been when the great one’s son was born of a strong peasant girl chosen for the task and then discarded, a dry husk blown away on the winds of maternal fate


    2. Hovering inches above the water, her wide eyes opened and before her, the rotting husk that was once Whimly fell back, a look of shock covering his bloated face


    3. I felt sick to my stomach for I knew that the ravaged husk of a man before my eyes was no living breathing creature but a fiend from hell and I shook my head in disgust


    4. It was as if the Patriarch were a chilling, unnatural force that could bore right into your soul and leave you empty; a walking husk with your mind and soul gone forever, his own for the taking at nothing but a whim of his


    5. ears of corn in the husk of it; And he said, Give to the people, that they may eat


    6. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk


    7. She is a mere husk of the woman she used to be


    8. His legs ceased their swinging and the shrivelled, emaciated husk that had once been Lewem, dropped to the floor


    9. Sorus was next through the portal and into the fray; he wore a leather helm and breastplate that ill suited him, and in his hands he wielded a large iron trident that was instantly raised on seeing Lewem’s husk


    10. The real William was dead, and this husk that resembled him was a sick insult

    11. It looked like a barren lifeless husk of a world


    12. Not the wrapped-in-cloth kind, but a human female body shriveled to a husk


    13. And he’s trapped in that old husk of a body


    14. The husk of your past form sinks beneath the amber as it liquefies into syrup again


    15. Devoid of life, it was just an empty husk


    16. They reached Suride Town; a city concealed behind an eight story high wall of dark, metallic brown, covered with a dome that was rotten at some sides to reveal sunlight into its husk


    17. Secret number six deals with the importance of the seed husk


    18. Jay grabs and clamps down on the textured husk with his power-glove


    19. She was a husk of a woman, eyes barren and lips a stringent line


    20. The laxative effect is due to swelling of the husk when it comes into contact with water, creating a gelatinous

    21. The laxative properties of Psyllium are due to the ability of the mucilage portion of the seed husk to absorb water, in


    22. outer husk or shell


    23. One of its most distinctive features is the odor of the fruit itself, inside the husk


    24. The parents or maybe the husband or wife - seldom the children, occasionally a brother or sister - it was as though life had been sucked away, as if only the husk remained


    25. Were I one of the dead, I’d be mad as hell at all the attention being paid to the husk of what once held “me” while my death itself—and who caused it—are shunted aside on behalf of those who supposedly loved me


    26. The fruit has a tough, thorny outer husk or shell


    27. Feeding his heart and rekindling the husk he believed he had into an engorged, brimful, and painful organ


    28. Renting the composting bio-degradable shroud to crack the skull husk for the precious white matter fungus feeding this garden of diversity, the Dying to Live feast upon thought so as to remain thoughtless


    29. According to this account, Lubaid Ibn Al-A’sam bewitched the messenger of God (cpth) using a comb, hair combings, dried pollen husk, one male pollen and a tied string that contained eleven knots and had needles stuck into it


    30. To his guarded surprise Albert had indeed been born, but it took little study to see that the child was but a husk of a creature, not even capable of feeding from its mother’s breast

    31. This paddy husk breaks the continuity of GEL, husk will behave like holes,


    32. 12) Find out how effective is PADDY HUSK as APC & also the Effectiveness


    33. But tell me one thing: has it never occurred to you that they are the merest shell, the merest husk and envelopment, and that it is possible that in spite of them--' his voice grew serious--'my life may be very rich within?'


    34. Paramita couldn't help but laugh louder imagining the scene, durian husk on a bridal bed that would be something different


    35. He was no nearer piercing through her outer husk to any emotions she might possess than before, but she, astonishingly, had pierced through his


    36. The outer husk of Ingram at this time and for some years previously was a desire at all costs to dodge boredom, to get tight hold of anything that promised to excite him, squeeze it with diligence till the last drop of entertainment had been extracted, and then let it go again considerably crumpled


    37. It was the kind of husk that causes divergences of opinion with one's wife


    38. He did not know how or why, but in that third week Ingeborg got through this husk and became mixed up in a curious inextricable way with the flaming holy thing inside


    39. Husk: The skin of a grape


    40. And then throw away the empty useless husk

    41. Leaving an empty useless husk with all the kernels stripped from it


    42. Jeff brought the coconut down as hard as he could and the husk shattered,


    43. Raya’s father wasn’t much more than a dry husk of a man


    44. The guard returned a few minutes later with a husk full of coconut milk


    45. “How are you feeling?” Kyle asked, handing her a coconut husk full of


    46. He drew lines of light upon his remaining mutilated husk


    47. Let it move thee, crafty, ill-conditioned monster, to see my blooming youth--still in its teens, for I am not yet twenty--wasting and withering away beneath the husk of a rude peasant wench; and if I do not appear in that shape now, it is a special favour Senor Merlin here has granted me, to the sole end that my beauty may soften thee; for the tears of beauty in distress turn rocks into cotton and tigers into ewes


    48. Henceforward he was more or less a husk


    49. They steal life in the same manner the Gray Man steals beauty, draining their victims with vampiric swiftness, leaving behind a pile of clothing and a husk of dehydrated human matter


    50. I looked back to the hollowed husk, still wearing a curious printing of my father’s stilled face







    1. I turned to go, but stopped as she husked out emotionally, “You didn’t want me to come along with you and your friend


    2. Drawing back after a while he husked out, “I wish the Earth would just open up and swallow this treasure of yours so we could just move on past this!”


    3. Ricki opened her trembling mouth, but John lifted his great glovelike hand and, eyes shut, husked:


    4. "No, no," he husked


    5. The old man husked out syllable on syllable


    6. "Halloway," husked the Witch's voice


    7. Parch husked seeds on hot stones by the fire


    1. By one o'clock in the still morning a huge husking roar shot up in the black stovepipe, such a wild roar that the house, if it had ever slept at all, awoke


    2. The harvest mellowness colored his cheeks, warmed his eyes soft, lowered his voice to a husking mist, and spread in his chest to slow his heart to a gentle trot


    1. 16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no


    2. ” Knowing what I did from the wounded I had been with from Gallipoli those dried out silent husks who used to be men I had a good idea why they would not let them see Charlie but I kept quite not wanting to upset her further


    3. From twigs she saw husks hanging


    4. She squatted down and retrieved a few that had fallen out of opened husks


    5. 16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate but no one gave him any


    6. A certain man had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father: Father give me the portion of goods that comes to me; and he divided between them his living and not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with riotous living and when he had spent all there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in wanting and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine and he would imagine having filled his belly with the husks that the swine ate and no man gave it to him; and when he came to himself he said: How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare and I perish from hunger! I will arise and go to my father and will say to him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before you and am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired servants and he arose and came to his father but when he was still a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him and the son said to him Father I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight and am no longer worthy to be called your son but the father said to his servants Bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring here the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry; because this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is now found; and they began to be merry


    7. You snuck in on a meeting and it was as you imagined, the withered husks of dementia, white haired shuffling corpses


    8. I couldn’t stand it, nor could I see the rational in keeping these husks of humanity


    9. And the young man would fain have filled himself with the husks which the swine ate, but no one would give him anything


    10. the burned out husks of the two stone huts that had been engulfed in flame a few hours before still there, caving in

    11. seeds from a container, check that the empty husks are not covering all the


    12. It is currently cultivated all over the world and the seed husks are used


    13. The seed husks are unique in that they contain a high level of mucilage content and soluble fiber, which


    14. Effectiveness of plantago seed husks in comparison with wheat brain on stool frequency and manifestations of irritable colon


    15. For example, instead of using the national brands of fiber, which often contain sugar or aspartame, go to the health food store and pick up psyllium husks


    16. He became wiser when he had to eat husks with the swine


    17. Threshing: The separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw


    18. It is indeed, often an effort of the will to leave the husks and swine of mortal thinking


    19. They had to crush them, and throw away their husks to be able to digest them


    20. It kept out the families that brought their food in pots and pans to eat their midday meal on the sand littering the place with soiled newspapers and watermelon husks

    21. We were no longer a family by then, but simply three empty husks coexisting in one house, moving about like zombies


    22. Fields of corn lined the road on one side, husks sparkling in the sunlight; on the other, giant fruit patches with strawberries big as Ingrid's fist peeked out from beneath the leaves, tempting her for a taste


    23. The man was tall and slender, with straight, dry husks of blond hair growing from beneath the rim of the dress hat he wore


    24. Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?


    25. For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,


    26. They had no roots and didn't care which solid objects secured them, sand, shells, husks, or pebbles; they didn't ask their hosts for sustenance, just a point of purchase


    27. Nearly a year ago, my second day in this city, I’d gotten lost in these forgotten, trash-strewn blocks filled with dilapidated industrial warehouses and docks, crumbling smokestacks, abandoned cars, and thick, porous husks scattered all over the place, oblivious to the amorphous danger lurking in the shadows


    28. It was alive, leaping up the trunks of palm trees, catching the husks and fronds as it burned


    29. ‘Then she recovered, but today or tomorrow or in ten years she won’t; they’ll bury her, and nothing will be left either of her or of that smart girl in the red jacket, who with that skillful, soft action shakes the ears out of their husks


    30. The man who fed was weary, and Tess could see that the red nape of his neck was encrusted with dirt and husks

    31. The restaurant—a great, old-school KC steakhouse—is surrounded by hollowed-out buildings that concern him, as if a troop of rapists was permanently crouched in their empty husks awaiting my arrival


    32. I saw a half-finished hospital as we walked, and a mosque in decent shape, but other than that, I found mostly abandoned buildings, burned-out husks of small homes, everywhere I looked


    33. The highly nutritious nuts come in ovoid, leafy, bristly or hairy husks


    34. The husks at the base of bamboo stems carry small stinging hairs which cause severe skin irritations


    35. That instant, the White Whale made a sudden rush among the remaining tangles of the other lines; by so doing, irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of Stubb and Flask towards his flukes; dashed them together like two rolling husks on a surf-beaten beach, and then, diving down into the sea, disappeared in a boiling maelstrom, in which, for a space, the odorous cedar chips of the wrecks danced round and round, like the grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch


    36. THE HUSKS OF RELIGION


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    Synonyms for "husk"

    husk chaff shuck stalk straw stubble shell peel skin

    "husk" definitions

    material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds


    outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds


    remove the husks from