Straw in example sentence

In the front rode the captain, side by side with his senior subaltern, apparently engaged in close conference, while the rear was brought up by a young cornet, humming an air, and thinking of the sweets of a straw bed after the fatigues of a hard day's duty.

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This is a straw.

This is a kind of a blowing straw.

This is a little straw, and what you do is you just nip two corners here, and this becomes like a baby crocodile's mouth.

This is how he became known to the public, and this is what probably became the straw that broke the camel's back.

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