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1. 9 Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way, for so does the sinner that has a double tongue
2. Once he has returned to Ithaca he must leave again and begin a new journey, this time short by sea and long on land, and stop only when he meets someone who will mistake his oar for a winnow
3. Winnow: To throw up grain in the air so that the chaff may be separated from the wheat
4. Whereas if all people who had something useful to contribute came together and openly shared everything they knew, then people for once would be able to winnow out all of the misleading, specialized, useless information from this data base and be able to use that newly integrated knowledge effectively
5. Perhaps the instinct that Cecilia attributed to her would help her winnow the seeds of practical treatment from the chaff of priestly mumbo-jumbo
6. ” The site, known as the Bull Forge Mine, was next to Winnow Mountain and Helley’s Bluff, both over three thousand feet in height and thick with untouched hardwoods
1. She had winnowed Titania and Hipolyta's several crates of studies and writings to one apiece, and gathered a crate-worth of Jameson's work as resources to any arguments she might feel compelled to make in their behalf
2. During the hurly-burly of the persecutions of Caligula, Nero, Vespasian, Domitian, and Trajan, among the others that were to follow; many hearers, and also speakers of the true as well as the polluted versions of the Word were haphazardly selected out (winnowed) from the arena of ideas
3. provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan
4. A cold breeze winnowed in Josie's direction
5. Only half an hour had gone by and he had winnowed his money down to nothing
6. Chaff: The refused part of winnowed corn; dried out grass or hay
7. Then all of the liars, and haters, and secret keepers, and deceivers can be winnowed out and banished from the communities that prefer honesty, openness, love, intimacy, fun and laughter
8. Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out
9. "Then I promise thee," said Don Quixote, "that, winnowed by her hands, beyond a doubt the bread it made was of the whitest; but go on; when thou gavest her my letter, did she kiss it? Did she place it on her head? Did she perform any ceremony befitting it, or what did she do?"
10. The hardships of this war were evident on their blank, weary faces and from their bodies, winnowed for want of food
11. Mo-bot went over Tule Archer’s newly composed dossier, homed in and winnowed out, asked new questions of the search engine, and received collateral material to add to the file
12. He’d needed every hand he had to deal with their repairs and to reinforce ships’ companies which had been brutally winnowed in the battle
13. But the next note, changed to pay for providing a dinner for their relations, that cost twenty-eight roubles, though it did excite in Levin the reflection that twenty-eight roubles meant nine measures of oats, which men would with groans and sweat have reaped and bound and thrashed and winnowed and sifted and sown,—this next one he parted with more easily
14. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t “In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks are winnowed out
15. He knows he’s winnowed out
16. The rice is harvested by cutting off the ears with a little knife, leaving the straw standing, and is taken in sacks to the village to be winnowed
1. But the hayfields open to the winnowing rays
2. His winnowing fork is in His hand and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor
3. He drove for another half hour winnowing the conglomeration of information through his mind
4. This probationary period granted us gives occasion for the winnowing of the wheat and proving the chaff, with greater facility than the latest model machine
5. Similarly, during two or three hours of drawl, and the winnowing of many bushels of words, Madame Defarge's frequent expressions of impatience were taken up, with marvellous quickness, at a distance: the more readily, because certain men who had by some wonderful exercise of agility climbed up the external architecture to look in from the windows, knew Madame Defarge well, and acted as a telegraph between her and the crowd outside the building
6. "I did not," said Sancho, "but I found her winnowing two bushels of wheat in the yard of her house
7. I have mentioned this lest anybody should mind what Sancho said about Dulcinea's winnowing or sifting; for, as they changed her to me, it is no wonder if they changed her to him
8. It was for his interests that every laborer should work as hard as possible, and that while doing so he should keep his wits about him, so as to try not to break the winnowing machines, the horse rakes, the thrashing machines, that he should attend to what he was doing
9. The old men on the rising straw-rick talked of the past days when they had been accustomed to thresh with flails on the oaken barn-floor; when everything, even to winnowing, was effected by hand-labour, which, to their thinking, though slow, produced better results
10. But her body had changed, slackening from the kids, and then sort of winnowing, as if to prepare her transition from motherhood to career
11. A Winnowing of the Stock Guide
12. If our winnowing approach had been applied to all 4,500 companies in the Stock Guide, and if the ratio for the first tenth had held good throughout, we would end up with about 150 companies meeting all six of our criteria of selection
13. ' This last, he said with apparent relish, and a winnowing of his knives, tubes, jars and instruments
14. ’ This last, he said with apparent relish, and a winnowing of his knives, tubes, jars, and instruments
15. " This last, he said with apparent relish, and a winnowing of his knives, tubes, jars, and instruments
1. 1 Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? 2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens were you? Behold, he winnows barley to night in the threshingfloor
2. Her large fan winnows wind towards her heated faceneck and embonpoint
3. The important takeaway here is that volatility is the input that matters the most in an option’s price and that volatility is the best measure of the true cost of an option since it winnows out the variables such as strike price and time to expiration and the price of the underlying stock
