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Sentences starting with corn

Corn had to be extorted from the Indians by force. [4]

Sentences ending with corn

Still wandering along, we were at last pointed to a hill in the distance, a part of the summit of which was covered with Indian corn. [6]
Now and then we encountered a rude log cabin without barns or outhouses, and a little patch of feeble corn. [4]
You must hill up your corn. [4]
In one expedition to Nansemond, when the Indians refused to trade, Smith fired upon them, and then landed and burned one of their houses; whereupon they submitted and loaded his three boats with corn. [4]
Above this point there is an outward swell, and thence upward for six feet or more the cylinder is a bright, fresh green, and is formed of wrappings like those of an ear of green Indian corn. [5]
For it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn. [6]
It is a pleasure to eat of the fruit of one's toil, if it be nothing more than a head of lettuce or an ear of corn. [4]
Now an uncle of mine had an old horse who used to get into the closed lot where the corn-crib was and dishonestly take the corn. [5]
One man has not enough bread to eat, and Bigot steals his corn. [11]
The new things moving in her were like breezes that stir the trees, not like the wind turning the windmill which grinds the corn. [11]

Short sentences using corn

Green corn, on the ear. [5]
Don't forget corn and seeds. [13]

Sentences containing corn two or more times

And not only that, but uses the forgery to double the loss of corn at "Bassett's Creek," and uses it again to absolutely treble the loss of corn on the "Alabama River. [5]
The last corn crop had failed, the new oats and corn had not come in, and the country was literally barren. [4]
We used to be given a certain piece of corn to hoe, or a certain quantity of corn to husk in so many days. [4]

More example sentences with the word corn in them

That should satisfy your justice, but you are merciful for the moment, and you will spare until the time be come, until the corn is ripe in the ear. [11]
The corn, not yet tasseled, stood in green flexible ranks, moved by the early breeze. [4]
She had scarcely yet begun to grind the corn of life. [11]
Smith upbraided him with neglect of his promise to supply them with corn, and told him, in reply to his demand for weapons, that he had no arms to spare. [4]
He sat up with delight to see an artist and his "Madame" returning from a journey in the country, seated upon sheaves of corn, quite unregarded by the world; doing as they listed with unabashed simplicity. [11]
What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas. [11]
In spite of will a sort of hopelessness went through me, for I could feel long blades of corn grown up about my couch, an unnatural meadow, springing from the earth floor of my dungeon. [11]
We camped there, where the loam was trampled and torn by countless herds of bison, and had only parched corn and the remains of a buffalo steak for supper, as the meal was mouldy from its wetting, and running low. [9]
In these days, when there had been neither games, nor pageants, nor distribution of corn, the Romans and Caesar had been their sole subjects of conversation. [10]
Meantime the Indians were bringing in supplies of corn and meat, the men were so improved in health that thirty were able to work, and provision for three weeks' bread was laid up. [4]
While the horses were being harnessed Alpatych and Ferapontov over their tea talked of the price of corn, the crops, and the good weather for harvesting. [2]
After some three weeks of this life, Powhatan sent this guileless youth down to decoy the English into his hands, promising to freight a ship with corn if they would visit him. [4]
The unreaped corn was scorched and shed its grain. [2]
After this it was perfectly quiet, and brought a measure of corn to the man-tamer, without showing the least disposition to strike with the feet or hit from the shoulder. [6]
I knew he was going to drop corn along in front of Joan now. [5]
Hearing that there was a basket of corn at Powhatan's, fifty miles away, they would have exchanged all their property for it. [4]
He heard the voice of a riverman as he toiled at a rope standing on the corn that filled his ghiassa from end to end, from keel to gunwale. [11]
In the marble vestibule of the Corn National Bank I ran into Tallant, holding his brown straw hat in his hand and looking a little more moth-eaten than usual. [9]
The sugar-troughs came very handy as horse-troughs, and we had plenty of corn to fill them with. [5]
This was the very fulness of the year, the earth giving out the sweetness of her maturity, the corn in martial ranks, with golden plumes nodding. [9]
The Masons gave us a Missouri country breakfast, in Missourian abundance, and we needed it: hot biscuits; hot 'wheat bread' prettily criss-crossed in a lattice pattern on top; hot corn pone; fried chicken; bacon, coffee, eggs, milk, buttermilk, etc. [5]
When I look upon yonder green fields, I call upon the faithful to give thanks to Rennut, that is, that active manifestation of the One, through which the corn attains to its ripe maturity. [10]
Whatever is the truth about Mr. Wingfield's inefficiency and embezzlement of corn meal, Communion sack, and penny whittles, his enemies had no respect for each other or concord among themselves. [4]
It was in truth a dismal sight,--the shapeless timbers, the corn, planted with such care, choked with weeds, and the poor utensils of the little family scattered and broken before the door-sill. [9]
There was the truck patch, with its yellow squashes and melons, and cabbages and beans, where Polly Ann and I worked through the hot mornings; and the corn patch, with the great stumps of the primeval trees standing in it. [9]
Presently, from the top of the hill, they looked down upon the long line of little homes lying along the banks of the river like peaceful watchmen in a pleasant land, with corn and wine and oil at hand. [11]
When I become too lazy to hill my corn, I, too, shall go into politics. [4]
It surprised me to notice, that, though there was every mark of hard fighting having taken place here, the Indian corn was not generally trodden down. [6]
For a long time she sat gazing at the young, corn waving on the prairie, fingering the bunch of June roses on her lap. [9]
G. P. "Dost thou spread the sail, throw the spear, swing the axe, lay thy hand upon the plough, attend the furnace door, shepherd the sheep upon the hills, gather corn from the field, or smite the rock in the quarry? [11]
B.--That corn and those potatoes which General Gr-nt looked at I will sell for seed, at five dollars an ear, and one dollar a potato. [4]
The reward of this wearisome winter campaign was two hundred weight of deer-suet and four hundred and seventy-nine bushels of corn for the general store. [4]
Look at all this country, not another building within ten miles, no other navigable stream, lay of the land points right here; hemp, tobacco, corn, must come here. [5]
He laughed at theoretical treatises on estate management, disliked factories, the raising of expensive products, and the buying of expensive seed corn, and did not make a hobby of any particular part of the work on his estate. [2]
But without corn, the work of fortifying and building had to be abandoned, and the settlers dispersed to provide victuals. [4]
When morning came the train was industriously toiling along through the fat lands of Lancaster, with its broad farms of corn and wheat, its mean houses of stone, its vast barns and granaries, built as if, for storing the riches of Heliogabalus. [5]
The hay and the spring corn, of which Alpatych said there had been a remarkable crop that year, had been commandeered by the troops and mown down while still green. [2]
They sat on the porch in the morning light, harking to the whistle of the quail in the corn, and watching the frightened deer scamper across the open. [9]
Besides Indian corn, the parching of which amused me, I had dried ham and tongue, and bread and cheese, enough, by frugal use, to last me a month at least. [11]
As to corn, the necessities of the case and pay being dwelt on, perhaps he could find a dozen ears. [4]
The fox and the goose and the corn and things-- Oh, dear, they are nothing to it. [5]
No, he put the farm into the hands of an agricultural expert to be worked on shares--out of every three loads of corn the expert to have two and the pilot the third. [5]
Upon examination of the corn stored in casks, it was found half-rotten, and the rest consumed by rats, which had bred in thousands from the few which came over in the ships. [4]
No journey ever taken since has equalled in ecstasy that leisurely trip of thirteen miles in the narrow-gauge railroad that wound through hot fields of nodding corn tassels and between delicious, acrid-smelling woods to Claremore. [9]
Smith proposed to surprise Powhatan, and seize his store of corn, but he says he was hindered in this project by Captain Winne and Mr. Scrivener (who had heretofore been considered one of Smith's friends), whom he now suspected of plotting his ruin in England. [4]
But when they stealthily stole up to the seat of that crafty chief, they found that those "damned Dutchmen" had caused Powhatan to abandon his new house at Werowocomoco, and to carry away all his corn and provisions. [4]
He ran up stairs and wrote glowingly, enthusiastically, to his mother about the hogs and the corn, the banks and the eye-water--and added a few inconsequential millions to each project. [5]
At last he spoke aloud: "There shall be an heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth. [11]
I did not speak, but nodded assent, and took to drawing the leaves of corn between my fingers as he was doing. [11]
You do not so treat the man who deals in corn, cotton, or tobacco. [7]
Yet this "impossible," Smith says, he accomplished in Virginia, and offers to undertake in New England, with one hundred and fifty men, to get corn, fortify the country, and "discover them more land than they all yet know. [4]
Under these circumstances, Smith says in his "True Relation," "I was sent to the mouth of the river, to Kegquoughtan [now Hampton], an Indian Towne, to trade for corn, and try the river for fish. [4]
He ate the slap-jacks, the buttermilk-pop, the pork and beans, the Indian corn on the cob, the pea-soup, and the bread baked in the roadside oven, with a relish which was not all pretence; for indeed he was as primitive as he was subtle. [11]
It is not simply beets and potatoes and corn and string-beans that one raises in his well-hoed garden: it is the average of human life. [4]
On the farther side of the river lay peaceful areas of meadow and corn land, and low-roofed, hovering farm-houses, with one larger than the rest, having a wind-mill and a flag-staff. [11]
The Indians had shot at a party shelling corn at Captain Bowman's plantation, and killed two, while the others had taken refuge in the crib. [9]
Besides his old shoes, the crowned monarch charitably gave Newport a little heap of corn, only seven or eight bushels, and with this little result the absurd expedition returned to Jamestown. [4]
With Percy he set out on an expedition for corn to the Chickahominy, which the insolent Indians, knowing their want, would not supply. [4]
We do somehow seem to manage to live on next year's crop of corn and potatoes as a general thing while this year is still dragging along, but sometimes it's not a robust diet,--Beriah. [5]
I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. [5]
This "cottage," a roomy, gabled structure, stood on a cliff, at the foot of which roared the wintry Atlantic, while we danced and popped corn before the open fires. [9]
While the corn ripened and the melons swelled and the flax flowered, our axes rang by the river's side; and sometimes, as we worked, Cowan and Terrell and McCann and other Long Hunters would come and jeer good-naturedly because we were turning civilized. [9]
I want to raise corn and stock. [13]
Mrs. Colfax was proud of her table, proud of her fried chickens and corn fritters and her desserts. [9]
The getting-in of potatoes and corn is a different thing; that is the prose, but nutting is the poetry, of farm life. [4]
The road was pleasant, lying between beautiful pastures and fields of corn, about which, poised high in the clear blue sky, the lark trilled out her happy song. [12]
Now there's an operation in corn that looks well. [5]
The window was open, and the cool airs from the mountain spruces mingled with the odors of corn meal and kerosene and calico print. [9]
For a sprinkling of water I have secured the corn trade with Thessalonica and Constantinople; that is a hundred gold solidi for each drop. [10]
The ridge back of the house, planted in corn, was as steep as the roof of his dwelling. [4]
Its wide fields of sprouting corn, its woods and pastures and orchards in blossom, were smiling that morning, as though Leviathan, the town, were not rolling onward to swallow them. [9]
There were fields of ripening yellow grain, of lusty young corn that grew almost as we watched it: the warm winds of evening were heavy with the acrid odours of fecundity. [9]
One noble product of nature did not refuse to flourish there,--the tall, stately, beautiful, soft-haired, many-jointed, generous maize or Indian corn, which thrives on sand and defies the blaze of our shrivelling summer. [6]
At the end of my hints and turnings and approaches, stretching himself up, and turning the corn about with his foot (but not crushing it, for he saw that I prized the poor little comrades), he would say: "Snug, snug, quiet and warm! [11]
Later in one of his casual moments, he observed that there was no money in fattening a chicken on 65 cents worth of corn and then selling it for 50. [5]
They had plenty of corn, but Smith says he had no commission to spoil them. [4]
On the 20th of April, while they were hewing trees and setting corn, an alarm was given which sent them all to their arms. [4]
Whoever erects a new house has a yearly allowance of corn, and in order to attract folks of our stamp--of whom he cannot get enough--he promises entire exemption from taxation to all sculptors, architects, and even to skilled laborers. [10]
Our ships now nestle at Her coast, Her corn our garner fills; And all is quiet at Dagost, And on the Blymar Hills. [11]
She is a neighbor of mine outside of Florence, and has a great garden and thinks she could raise corn for her table if she had the right ammunition. [5]
Now, there is my corn, two or three inches high this 18th of May, and apparently having no fear of a frost. [4]
One of these mounds has been used for many years as the grave-yard, and to-day we saw attenuated cows lying against the marble tomb-stones, chewing their cud in contentment, after a meal of corn furnished by General York. [5]
One ever memorable morning, early in the crisp autumn, a grizzled man strode up the trail, and Polly Ann dropped the ear of corn she was husking and stood still, her bosom heaving. [9]
On the Saturday morning before the Tuesday of election there was a conference in the directors' room of the Corn National. [9]
And that I might keep up a kind delusion that I was not quite alone in the bowels of the earth, I reached out my hand and affectionately drew the blades of corn between my fingers. [11]
An elevator took me down to the lobby of the Corn Bank Building. [9]
There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck. [5]
The corn has lost its ammunition, and stacked arms in a slovenly, militia sort of style. [4]
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. [6]
The corn waved like that which grows so rank out of the French-English mixture at Waterloo. [4]
Her hair was like corn silk in the sun, twisting up into soft curls after her bath, when she sat rosily presiding over her supper table. [9]
Up there were light, freedom, and the inspiriting frost; down here in my dungeon, the blades of corn, which, dying, yet never died, told the story of a choking air, wherein the body and soul of a man droop and take long to die. [11]
And when at last she had spread the cloth and loaded it with hot corn bread, fried chickens, bacon, buttermilk, coffee, and all manner of country luxuries, Col. [5]
Pine forests, wheat land, corn land, iron, copper, coal-wait till the railroads come, and the steamboats! [5]
Hardly had the king opened the General Assembly in April, 1848, and, for the relief of distress among the poorer classes in the capital, repealed the town dues on corn, when the first actual evidences of discontent broke out. [10]
The postscript, "tell John that nancy's folks are all well and has a verry good Little Crop of corn a growing. [6]
When in town, it was their habit to pay a friendly call on the Counsel for the Railroad, Mr. Miller Gorse, in the Corn Bank Building. [9]
I was hoeing it this morning for the first time,--it is not well usually to hoe corn until about the 18th of May,--when Polly came out to look at the Lima beans. [4]
There are little intervales along the river, where hay is cut and corn grown, but the region is not much cleared, and the stock browse about in the forest. [4]
Tall shafts of Indian corn with their yellow tassels were still standing, and the stubble of the field where the sickle had been showed in the distance like a carpet of gold. [11]

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