Edible grains

Usage examples of oats.

The Very Reverend Mekkle, who'd taken Pastoral Practice, had advised that the rules about starch were only really a guideline, but Oats hadn't wanted to put a foot wrong and his collar could have been used as a razor.

Behind her, Mightily Oats had got up and was inspecting the food suspiciously.

Perdita had got through on that one, but Oats didn't seem to have noticed.

Agnes thought of all the things that were rumoured to be in the mountains, and dragged Oats after her like a badly hitched cart.

Most of the time even I don't know what I'm thinking,' said Oats miserably.

Now Agnes and Oats sat on either side of it, listening to the distant sounds of Hodgesaargh feeding the birds.

The wowhawk fluttered up and perched on a beam, and if Oats had been paying attention he'd have wondered how a hooded bird could fly so confidently.

At the back of his mind Oats thought he could hear the sound of hooves, slowly approaching.

It had replaced swords with sermons, which at least caused fewer deaths except in the case of the really very long ones, and had broken the Church into a thousand pieces which had then started arguing with one another and finally turned out Oats, who argued with himself.

For a moment they seemed to Oats to have red pupils, and then the icy blue gaze focused on him.

Then Oats reached out and snatched the child from the vampire's unresisting hands.

Verence nodded regally at oats to signal that whatever it was that he intended ought to start around now.

Some of his fellow students had spent hours carefully ruffling the pages to give them that certain straight-and-narrow credibility, but Oats had refrained from this as well.

It was the Oats that read avidly and always remembered those passages which cast doubt on the literal truth of the Book of Om — and nudged him and said, if this isn't true, what can you believe?

White has a man working for him named Tim Oats, a very rough man, sir.