The army was approaching from the north.

The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.

2 Sept 2011, corella, “What does it mean when gibbering media drones say that grotesque Asian-style Stack and Pack slums and plague immigration are vibrant?”, in aus.politics, Usenet:

The concept of actually climbing this shimmering white behemoth of groaning, octopusal glaciers was so beyond the imagination of most humans that no one even took him up on the offer for fifteen years.