Careful Words

wheat (n.)

wheat (adj.)

  Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.