"Green corn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Plain White Sponge Corn Cakes, Green Corn Old Virginia Batter Canapes Cannelon Cases, Chicken Muffin Casserole Celery Sauce, Chopped Cereals Cheese Balls Pudding Souffle Chicken Balls, English Chicken—Cooked Casserole Creamed Hash on Toast Cutlets Indian Hash Mock Terrapin ...
— Made-Over Dishes • S. T. Rorer
... cottage at the foot of the Bell mountain. The inhabitants were freeholders, which is not very usual in Chile. They supported themselves on the produce of a garden and a little field, but were very poor. Capital is here so deficient that the people are obliged to sell their green corn while standing in the field, in order to buy necessaries for the ensuing year. Wheat in consequence was dearer in the very district of its production than at Valparaiso, where the contractors live. The next day we joined the main road to Coquimbo. At night ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... village of grey stone, part, it seemed, of the tufa rocks from which it sprang, pressed round the villa, invaded its olive-gardens, crept up to its very walls. Meanwhile the earth grew kinder and more fertile. The vines and figs stood thick again among the green corn and flowering lucerne. Peasants streaming home from work, the men on donkeys, the women carrying their babies, met the carriage and stopped to stare ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... in the field often walked barefoot through the snow, and in summer they ate the green corn in the fields, glad to get even so little; but they were not sure that those left behind would have as much. They were conscious, too, that the North, the sluggish North, which had been so long in putting ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... some green corn, and husked it between his hands, and tried to satisfy his complaining stomach with ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
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