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Mustard seed

noun

Black or white seeds ground to make mustard pastes or powders.

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"Mustard seed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Geddie read the column of print. Following a listed statement of Mr. Tolliver's real estate and bonds, came a description of the yacht's furnishings, and then the grain of news no bigger than a mustard seed. Mr. Tolliver, with a party of favoured guests, would sail the next day on a six weeks' cruise along the Central American and South American coasts and among the Bahama Islands. Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss ...

— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

... not even the traditional grain of mustard seed to sow; and I might answer you as Laplace once did: 'Je n'avais pas besoin de ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... has been taken as almost a nickname for them. In the hour of trial and danger they may trust to "the Spirit of your Father" (Matt. 10:20). It is remarkable what value he attaches to faith even of the slightest—"faith as a grain of mustard seed" (Matt. 17:90)—it is little, but it is of the seed order, a living thing of the most immense vitality with the promise of growth and usefulness ...

— The Jesus of History • T. R. Glover

... what matter and what person it would be best to begin writing of, by a lucky coincidence suddenly from a distance of a thousand li, a person small and insignificant as a grain of mustard seed happened, on account of her distant relationship with the Jung family, to come on this very day to the Jung mansion on a visit. We shall therefore readily commence by speaking of this family, as it after all affords an excellent clue ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

Words linked to "Mustard seed" : Brassica hirta, black mustard, white mustard, table mustard, seasoning, Brassica nigra, flavouring, flavorer, flavoring, seasoner, flavourer, Sinapis alba, mustard