What is "wheaten"

Usage examples of "wheaten".

The boy paused in surprise when he saw Eugene: his wheaten sheaf of hair fell down across one eye, one trouser leg had come unbanded at the knee and flapped down to his ankle, and for a moment he looked at Eugene with a rude frank stare of his puggish freckled face.

No cakes, no pastry kickshaws, and only wheaten bread enough for absolute necessity.

And lo, Baba Mustapha worked diligently, and Shagpat was behind an exulting lather, even as one pelted with wheaten flour-balls or balls of powdery perfume, and his hairiness was as branches of the forest foliage bent under a sudden fall of overwhelming snow that filleth the pits and sharpeneth the wolves with hunger, and teacheth new cunning to the fox.

Cutlery, cracked plates and chipped tin cups were laid out, together with a pitcher of cool water, a cut of crusty wheaten bread on the cutting board, and the banal offering of plates of fat back, taters, and greens and at rare times a deep dish of custard pudding.

His father died when Jeremiah was twenty-two, a fairly miserable stretch beginning for him then, tho' he never drank enough to interfere with field-work, something he needed as much as ready access to Ale, still young enough to arise little inconvenienced after a night's strenuous drinking, having led till now the merry Life of a Journeyman Surveyor, errant all through the North country, one Great Land-Holding to another, three-legged Staff cock'd over his shoulder, Circumferentor slung in a Pitman's bag along with dry Stockings and a small wheaten Loaf, spare Needles and Pins, Plummets, Pencils, scrap-paper, and jeweler's Putty for the Compass, tho' Spaces not yet enclos'd would ever make him uneasy, not a promising mental condition for an outdoor job, oblig'd to cross the Fell now and again, a dangerous and frightening place, not only murderers abroad, but Spirits as well, and Spirits not necessarily in human form, no, the worst being, almost in human form, but not quite.

She had a secret longing for Curiosity's best Sunday biscuits of wheaten flour, even as she crumbled the good Kahnyen'keha'ka corncake into her bowl.

The second is the cheat or wheaten bread, so named because the colour thereof resembleth the grey or yellowish wheat, being clean and well dressed, and out of this is the coarsest of the bran (usually called gurgeons or pollard) taken.

As he approached he saw that they had five dried herrings laid out in front of them, with a great hunch of wheaten bread and a leathern flask full of milk, but instead of setting to at their food they appeared to have forgot all about it, and were disputing together with flushed faces and angry gestures.

Abernathy, the court scribe become a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier through Questor's magic and left that way when the magic couldn't be found to change him back again, a dog in gentleman's clothing.

It seemed perfectly normal to Questor and Bunion that the dragon should talk, and even more so to Abernathy, being a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier who himself talked.

It was strange indeed to see a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier with glasses and tunic riding a horse and holding a flag, but Ben kept the smile from his face, because Abernathy obviously saw nothing at all funny about it.

He was a dog once more, a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier, shaggy and unkempt beneath his clothing, fur sticking out everywhere, ears perked, glasses perched awkwardly on his long nose.

He was a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier, made so by Questor Thews when the old King's spiteful son, Michel Ard Rhi, had sought to do him serious harm, then left that way because Questor could not change him back again.

He held himself stiffly in his crimson and gold uniform, the robes of his office as Court Scribe, and his fingers--all that remained of his human self since his transformation into a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier--fidgeted with the engraved metal buttons as if to ascertain that they were all still in place.

Abernathy, the Court Scribe, was a man who had been turned into a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier by a bit of misguided magic and forced to stay that way.