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The States-General were the outer husk, of which the separate town-council was the kernel or bulb.
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They must content themselves with the outer husk.
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Bolting or separating the flour or interior portion of the berry from the outer husk, or bran.
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They're actually different things-theouter husk of a filbert is longer than that of a hazelnut-buteither is fine.
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To get at the good part of grain-thepart that is good to eat-wehave to break the outer husk.
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What remained was but the outer husk, the disfigured frame, upon which the newer imprint seemed only a passing insult.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The outer husks were quickly torn off, and a nut was given to Harry, the eye being pierced.
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Then the outer husks are removed, and the corn is ground by a process that produces grains like granulated sugar.
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"So many people never see beyond the outer husk," she said.
