It must have slipped from her finger while she was scattering grain for her chickens.

Then I scattered grain for them and the kitchen waste from the day before.

Yama threaded the winding paths to the little patch of grass where Beatrice and Osric were scattering grain.

Just as the workers gathered, the truck exploded, scattering grain in all directions, scarring the facade of a three-story building, wounding scores of workers and gouging out a crater nearly 10 feet wide.

Every attempt has been vain to lure him back by scattering grain upon the roofs; he seems to have lost all thought of home, of his tender helpmate, and his callow young.

SUSAN WARD would rise early in the morning and stand in that gallery to watch the house wake up: At dawn, old Ascención would scatter grain for the doves before plodding up the stone stairs to water the flower pots and sweep the corridor.

Well, I was wondering about poisoning pigeons . . ." He explained-bribe some sailors to visit the sorcerer towns and scatter poisoned grain around the towers.

There was time for thought all that day, while he scattered grain for the hens, milked the cow, groomed the old bay horse, and moved the sheep to a fresh hill-pasture.