Skin-clad, she waded thigh-deep in rice-swamps, battling with squawking water-fowl for the precious grains.

He wanted to see his precious grain safely behind the walls.

They formed an orderly line, accepting small bundles of dried wheat stalks from which the precious grain had been extracted, and stepped forward.

Jareth let them all have some of the precious grain.

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

Behind, the wagons of precious grain were hidden in crackling flames.

He was feeding the stock, using his hat to give them each a handful of their precious grain.

Alone on the parched plains of Somalia or the Sudan, they lack the strength to lift even a kernel of precious grain.

He belonged to his people, and she must be grateful for the precious grains of his time which she could glean for herself.

The time was then propitious for sowing this single precious grain of corn.