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    rice


    1. ’ He glances at the rice which is boiling away merrily


    2. ‘Some of that egg fried rice would be nice … thanks


    3. The temple is constructed of rough timber and lumber with no ornamentation, the sliding doors are made of rice paper


    4. We bolted down our chicken and rice as quickly as we could


    5. bowl of puffed rice in the courtyards was a common


    6. on a bed of rice


    7. What, then, are these unnatural foods to be avoided? These are the refined, processed, tinned and packaged foods, the worst offenders being white sugar, white flour, white rice and any other food from which the vitality has been refined out


    8. When I say avoid eating white flour products, white sugar products, and polished rice you will ask why


    9. What is wrong with eating raw sugar, whole wheat flour products, and unpolished rice? They may prove somewhat dearer but who in his right mind would try to economize on good food? And in the case of raw sugar be careful that you are not buying refined sugar that has simply been coloured brown


    10. The main sources of this mineral are nuts, whole wheat, unpolished rice, oatmeal, dried fruits, and leafy vegetables

    11. Lemony herby rice and onion spilled into my mouth still hot from cooking


    12. Oh, and pop in a lamb Madras, pilau rice, a mushroom bhaji, and a couple of bottles of Spanish brandy while you're at it"


    13. frequently had months where the choice was to buy either rice for our


    14. The second course is chicken in a delicious lemony sauce with rice and salad


    15. ‘Beef in black bean sauce with boiled rice … if that’s all right …


    16. I pass this on, and request my usual chicken curry and boiled rice for myself


    17. I have mentioned that I had saved the few ears of barley and rice, which I had so surprisingly found spring up, as I thought, of themselves, and I believe there were about thirty stalks of rice, and about twenty of barley; and now I thought it a proper time to sow it, after the rains, the sun being in its southern position, going from me


    18. If by digging the ground a whole day he can get what will purchase a small quantity of rice in the evening, he is contented


    19. The greater part of the cultivated lands in Cochin China are employed in producing corn and rice, the food of the great body of the people


    20. The respective prices of corn, rice, and sugar, are there probably in the natural proportion, or in that which naturally takes place in the different crops of the greater part of cultivated land, and which recompenses the landlord and farmer, as nearly as can be computed, according to what is usually the original expense of improvement, and the annual expense of cultivation

    21. But in our sugar colonies, the price of sugar bears no such proportion to that of the produce of a rice or corn field either in Europe or America


    22. A rice field produces a much greater quantity of food than the most fertile corn field


    23. In those rice countries, therefore, where rice is the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, and where the cultivators are chiefly maintained with it, a greater share of this greater surplus should belong to the landlord than in corn countries


    24. In Carolina, where the planters, as in other British colonies, are generally both farmers and landlords, and where rent, consequently, is confounded with profit, the cultivation of rice is found to be more profitable than that of corn, though their fields produce only one crop in the year, and though, from the prevalence of the customs of Europe, rice is not there the common and favourite vegetable food of the people


    25. A good rice field is a bog at all seasons, and at one season a bog covered with water


    26. It is unfit either for corn, or pasture, or vineyard, or, indeed, for any other vegetable produce that is very useful to men ; and the lands which are fit for those purposes are not fit for rice


    27. Even in the rice countries, therefore, the rent of rice lands cannot regulate the rent of the other cuitivated land which can never be turned to that produce


    28. The food produced by a field of potatoes is not inferior in quantity to that produced by a field of rice, and much superior to what is produced by a field of wheat


    29. Should this root ever become in any part of Europe, like rice in some rice countries, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, so as to occupy the same proportion of the lands in tillage, which wheat and other sorts of grain for human food do at present, the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people ; and the labourers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock, and maintaining all the labour employed in cultivation


    30. Rice in China is much cheaper than wheat is any where in Europe

    31. In rice countries, which generally yield two, sometimes three crops in the year, each of them more plentiful than any common crop of corn, the abundance of food must be much greater than in any corn country of equal extent


    32. In rice countries, where the crop not only requires a very moist soil, but where, in a certain period of its growing, it must be laid under water, the effects of a drought are much more dismal


    33. Some improper regulations, some injudicious restraints, imposed by the servants of the East India Company upon the rice trade, contributed, perhaps, to turn that dearth into a famine


    34. They give up everything except a simple robe, some sandals, and a bowl for rice


    35. They beg for their daily rice and devote themselves to meditation


    36. 2) The use of whole wheat and rice is adequate


    37. It was probably not so much from any regard to the interest of America, as from a jealousy of this interference, that those important commodities have not only been kept out of the enumeration, but that the importation into Great Britain of all grain, except rice, and of all salt provisions, has, in the ordinary state of the law, been prohibited


    38. Lumber and rice having been once put into the enumeration, when they were afterwards taken out of it, were confined, as to the European market, to the countries that lie south of Cape Finisterre


    39. size of a grain of rice set in the middle of


    40. factory, to order a peasant to plough up a rich field of poppies, and sow it with rice, or some other grain

    41. Upon other occasions, the order has been reversed ; and a rich field of rice or other grain has been ploughed up, in order to make room for a plantation of poppies, when the chief foresaw that extraordinary profit was likely to be made by opium


    42. Season with chili powder and salt, cover and simmer for 30 minutes, or until rice is cooked and liquid is absorbed


    43. Bengal accordingly, the province of Indostan which commonly exports the greatest quantity of rice, has always been more remarkable for the exportation of a great variety of manufactures, than for that of its grain


    44. Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice represented the United States at the unveiling, which was of course entirely appropriate on her part


    45. Did we lose it? Yes, but not on the battlefields of jungles and rice paddies, for we never lost a set-piece battle, and that most assuredly includes the Tet Offensive


    46. bedroom with a lovely view of mountains, the river, a lake, and rice fields, our fields and others’


    47. huts elevated above the flooded rice paddies


    48. They’d be planting, harvesting, or irrigating, or just waiting for the rice to grow or sometimes, the rain to come


    49. The Sisters prepared rice and gruel over braziers, and thus only did the wounded obtain the food they could assimilate


    50. Green tea with toasted rice and popped corn














































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    Synonyms for "rice"

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    "rice" definitions

    grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished


    annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper


    English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)


    United States playwright (1892-1967)


    sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice