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“At the sacred threshing-floor, when they are winnowing, she herself, Demeter of the corn-ripe yellow hair, divides the grain and the chaff in the rush of the wind, and the heap of chaff grows white.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The older women are winnowing grain and grinding at the metate.

From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Austin, Mary Hunter

"Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time golden Demeter, in rush of wind, maketh division of grain and chaff."

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

They are winnowing almost everywhere today," explained Aunt Rose, "taking advantage of the good weather.

From With Those Who Wait by Huard, Frances Wilson

At a door, that has been broken through the massive stonework where it was meant to be strongest, some contadini are winnowing grain.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel