A handful of common sense is worth bushel of learning.
Corn was an average of 2 dollars a bushel last year.
the dollar is the United States unit of currency; a unit of wheat is a bushel; change per unit volume.
All year long Tommy hid his light under a bushel and the teacher was surprised to see how much he know when she read his exam paper.
When Little Claus reached home again, he immediately sent a boy to GREat Claus, requesting him to lend him a bushel measure.
Don’t “hide your light under a bushel”.
I'll give him a bushel of corn, said one.
The young professor hide his light under a bushel and kept everything in low profile.
Rich Japan and Germany deliberately adopted a "big Switzerland" policy of hiding their light under a bushel for decades.
So it happened that Little Claus received another bushel of money, and the landlord buried his old grandmother as if she had been his own.
In Iowa, that region is the north-western part of the state, which enjoys high crop yields but gets 25-50 cents less per bushel because it is too far from the Mississippi river barges.
A container with the capacity of a bushel.
So he went to Little Claus, and took the bushel measure with him.
These restaurants cover their tables with brown paper, unload a bushel of crabs on the table and provide knives and mallets for customers to pry the crabs open.
Grains are sold by the bushel.
Corn shot up to seventy-three cents a bushel.
The new clerk was a clever mathematician but was content to hide his light under a bushel.
Hide not your light under a bushel.
Mr Thompson is a man who hides his light under a bushel. In fact, he is very clever.
No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it in the cellar or under the bushel, but on the lampstand, in order that those who enter in May see the light.
Corn has been selling at more than 3 dollars a bushel ,last year the average was 2 dollars.
March oats fell 7.50 cents to $2.87 a bushel; and January soybeans dropped 30.50 cents to $11.2250 a bushel.
Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel.
I'll give him a bushel of corn, said I will, said another.
Well, please listen to me carefully: I love each green leaf, I hate this thought style and such behavior of measuring others' corn by its own bushel just like you!
Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.
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