From excess grain: civilization.

And it took up residence in the temples, where it hunted rats with great efficiency, preserving the precious excess grain.

Reeves opened a distillery to process the excess grain into whiskey.

In bumper crop times, the excess grain is stored in piles without silos or bins, causing considerable losses.

This excess grain was the basis of specialization; as some humans ceased laboring for food, they became metal-smiths, shipwrights, soldiers, philosophers.

This is our new excess grain, Senator.

Western farmers considered it to be both unfair and discriminatory, since they had traditionally converted their excess grain into liquor.

The government had to buy the excess grain to keep the price up.

He climbed down from the cab in the darkness and stretched a hand into the mechanical innards of the powerful machine, trying to sweep away the excess grain.

In 1917 a mere fifty-three households had been able to sell off excess grain.