Some of the grasses growing by the hedge are not to be handled carelessly, the edge of the long blade cutting like a lancet: the awn-like seeds of others, if they should chance to get into the mouth, as happens occasionally to the haymakers, work down towards the throat, the attempt to get rid of them causing a creeping motion the opposite way.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
Seeds cylindrical with a hairy awn at both ends.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Ye'll have no ind iv trailin' an' shadowin' an' other detective wurrk to do awn th' case, no doubt.
"Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective"
Ellis Parker Butler