Sentence examples for barleycorn from inspiring English sources

Activated by water and oxygen, the root embryo of the barleycorn secretes a plant hormone called gibberellic acid, which initiates the synthesis of α-amylase.

Over lunch recently at Barleycorn's Downtown Bar and Deli in Wamego, Mr. Martin said he believed "the worst is behind us".

It was probably in 1305, when Edward I decreed that 1 inch (2.5 cm) should be the measure of three dried barleycorns, that English shoe sizing began; thus, a child's shoe that measured 13 barleycorns became size 13.

It was also used as the original basis for the medieval English inch, which was defined for instructional purposes as the length of 3 medium-sized barleycorns placed end to end (about 2.54 cm).

Fourteenth-century statutes recorded a yard (perhaps based originally on a rod or stick) of 3 feet, each foot containing 12 inches, each inch equaling the length of three barleycorns (employed merely as a learning device since the actual standard was the space between two marks on a yard bar).

John Barleycorn, fictional humorous personification of alcohol, first appearing about 1620.

In addition to Martin Eden, he wrote two other autobiographical novels of considerable interest: The Road (1907) and John Barleycorn (1913).

British sources often refer to the character as Sir John Barleycorn, as in a 17th-century pamphlet, The Arraigning and Indicting of Sir John Barleycorn, Knight, and in a ballad found in The English Dancing Master (1651).

The Scottish poet Robert Burns reworked folk material for his poem "John Barleycorn" (1787).

Capaldi played drums, sang, and provided lyrics for all of the band's albums, including Traffic (1968), John Barleycorn Must Die (1970), and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971).

John Barleycorn was a figure in British and American folklore.