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Examples of such untamed cereals are drinn, golden millet, kram-kram, panic grasses, wild rices, jungle rice, wild tefs, and crowfoot grasses.
Chapter 8 1996
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Cortier (1908) referred several times to the abundance of drinn: "The hillocks of sand in all the plain," he wrote,
14. Wild Grains 1996
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The grass known in Arabic as drinn (Aristida punges) once provided by far the most important wild grain of the northern Sahara.
14. Wild Grains 1996
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Even as recently as 1969, drinn was still a significant part of the diet in the Sahara oases.
14. Wild Grains 1996
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"This dreariness is not _our_ desert," she explained eagerly to the girl, as the horses dragged the carriage over the sandy earth, through whose hard brown surface the harsh, colourless blades of _drinn_ pricked like a few sparse hairs on the head of a shrivelled old man.
The Golden Silence 1901
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Die Nacht ist kommen drinn wir ruhen sollen -- BOHEMIAN BRETHREN.
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Die Nacht ist kommen drinn wir ruhen sollen, [397] h21-p2. 1
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"are embossed by enormous tufts of drinn, whose black grains at the tips of long stems swing and sweep the soil."
14. Wild Grains 1996
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