Jack: Rexi & Talon -- 24. Rexi
It was only harald who had really thought zackton was _odd_ above and beyond all the other oddnesses, and rexi, he admitted to himself, had been at first too overwhelmed with all the new details to see to and master to winnow out the important ones.
[c] Sating the Swarm
Once the cream of the crop were winnowed down, the males were taken back to the mothership. one by one they trickled back to their homeworlds, each of them harried and disheveled.
Mentoring
So, i let my tongue winnow it's way down along the cleft and swept up his taste. when i had what i wanted, every thought that could have intruded vanished, leaving me to focus. deep into his vent my tongue went.
Para-Imperium Setting Data
Campaigning takes five years and every year the candidate pool is winnowed down further and further, the first year the most popular 80 candidates are selected, halved to 40 in the second year, 20 in the third, 10 in the fourth, and finally the praetor
Corwin Hall, Chapter 11
The being in front of him was a winnowing fork, he realized, but it hadn't come to sort him into a pile marked either "redeemed" or "disposed of." it was going to split him right down the middle.
Gold Fever chapter 1
You just had to see what was over the next hill, or around the next bend, not that that is a bad thing, mind you it was part of the winnowing process that helped settle this country... for you see, if you look back on history, you will find there a two kinds
Gold Fever chapter 3
I've seen it a time or two, never pretty but i look at it as part of the winnowing process. welcome to my world becka." greg stood and held out a hand to her. she stood, reached out and took his hand in hers knowing greg was a true kindred spirit.
Breaking The Line Draft 1, CH 05
Damian is slowly, but surely winnowing you down. eventually there isn't going to be a society left if you guys don't stop fucking and start fighting." "you expect us, to obey you," the saint-bernard said.
I Dacien Chapter 10 - Change
I wish you to take control of all these thousand matters, and winnow the things that need me from everything else, although all those other matters must make their way to the right bull."
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 17
The winnowing agony of unmaking had no words to describe it, no form to give the sensation of your body unraveling, your fiber and fitment of being shaking asunder.
Fall From Grace, Chapter Forty Six
Kavaia stepped over the remains of an old winnowing scoop. “living here was always tenuous,” sadik continued. “the river was our only water. the soil was stony. all our harvests were meagre, in the good years. i remember. . . .”
Seven Days Chapter 6
He winnowed a claw into the neck of the bag and pulled it open, making sure it contained what he expected it to. "he is an older wyvern and his eyesight is slowly betraying his age.