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Meanings of outer husk in inglês

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Usage of outer husk in inglês
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The States-General were the outer husk, of which the separate town-council was the kernel or bulb.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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They must content themselves with the outer husk.
Greatheart
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Bolting or separating the flour or interior portion of the berry from the outer husk, or bran.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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They're actually different things-theouter husk of a filbert is longer than that of a hazelnut-buteither is fine.
Cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks, and good food
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To get at the good part of grain-thepart that is good to eat-wehave to break the outer husk.
Daddy Takes Us to the Garden / The Daddy Series for Little Folks
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What remained was but the outer husk, the disfigured frame, upon which the newer imprint seemed only a passing insult.
The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
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But his words made no impression upon her, perhaps because they could not penetrate the outer husk of deadness which enveloped her.
The Wheel of Life
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The means to escape were in his outer husk; the inner thing that it carried either did not care or could not command.
More Than Human
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He broke off the branch, and with the sharp point he soon had torn a hole in the outer husk of the cocoanut.
Mappo, the Merry Monkey: His Many Adventures
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His next care was to separate the coarse outer husk or covering of the kernel from the finer parts that make the meal.
An American Robinson Crusoe
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She found him changed and improved much, as if he had thrown off some outer husk, but exhausted and weakened by the transformation.
Jack / 1877
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The bread we eat is but its outer husk: the true bread is the Lord himself, to have whom in us is eternal life.
Miracles of Our Lord
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The outer husks were quickly torn off, and a nut was given to Harry, the eye being pierced.
The Voyage of the "Steadfast": The Young Missionaries in the Pac...
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Then the outer husks are removed, and the corn is ground by a process that produces grains like granulated sugar.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
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"So many people never see beyond the outer husk," she said.
The Lamp in the Desert
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