"Cereal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... given in the public journals of the time, were in a state of actual famine. Potatoes were eight pence a stone in districts where they usually sold from one penny to two pence. But although the potato had failed, food from the cereal crops was abundant and cheap enough if the people had money to buy it. "There was no want of food of another description for the support of human life; on the contrary, the crops of grain had been far from ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... got to be faced, so while I'm getting down the cereal and a bowl, I say, "Well, as a matter of fact, I'm going ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville
... Have given up all cereal diet. Have given up oatmeal, rice, farina, puffed wheat, corn flakes, hominy, shredded wheat, force, cream of wheat, grapenuts, boiled barley, popcorn, flour paste, and rice powder. Weigh now only nine hundred and twenty-five pounds. ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... then we may expect to find the cultures and seeds pure, irrespective of the distances between allied varieties, as for instance with peas, which are known to be self-fertilizing. Another instance is given by the barley. One of the most curious anomalous varieties of this cereal, is the "Nepaul-barley," with its small adventitious flowers on the palets or inner scales. It is a very old, widely cultivated sort, which always comes true from seed, and which has been tested in repeated ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... it may be eaten, seasoning properly, one simple dish, such as cereal, vegetables, meat, fish or eggs in any other form ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
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