Meaning of sandcorn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A grain of sand
2. Anything causing irritation or discomfort.
   broadly, figuratively

Examples

“[…] overflowing all with golden splendour, gilding mountains, trees, and grass, making all flowers glow in brilliant colours, throwing bright sparks upon each sandcorn, and causing golden waves to roll in the river of the plain.”

“It was the tradition of image-making which carried in its stream, as it were, those indispensable sandcorns of tasks.”

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