The woodman's axe has not marred the loveliness of its surroundings, and no human hand has for all that distance been laid upon its mane, or harnessed it to the great wheel, making it a slave, compelling it to be utilitarian, to grind corn or throw the shuttle and spin.

I can tend a truck patch or raise a field o' corn to beat anybody, and nobody cain't outdo me with fowls; but the mill" She broke off and sat staring dully at the floor.

In the garden they laid out a strawberry bed of two thousand plants, helped to plant corn and beans, picked beans and other vegetables.

Then they entered into the land of Egypt with others for to buy corn.

The Gauls ate the corn cooked or bruised in a mortar: they did not know, for a long time, how to make fermented bread.

Another set of children made a cart on which the farmer was to carry his corn, and exemplified Dewey's "concrete logic of action."

In Illinois, Iowa, or Indiana, the farmer can grow rich while selling his corn for ten cents per bushel, and it is now common for a man and a boy to cultivate a hundred acres and to gather five thousand bushels in a single season.

She felt how she must have colored, and was glad that her father called her, at that moment, to help him shell corn for the chickens.

He plants and reaps no corn and grain.

On the very day that the Mayflower set sail, and while its white sails could still be distinguished in the eastern horizon, the Governorwho took an active part in every occupation, and even every labor that engaged the settlerswas busily employed in sowing corn in the fields that were considered as the common property of the colony.

As a result of this, we may have the starting-point of suppurating corn, or necrosis of the lateral cartilagein other words, cartilaginous quittor.

"Thou shall not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn," or literally, while he thresheth.

I was just crunching up the newspaper that they brought the corn in, and was going to throw it out of the window, when I saw a heading that read: Fishermen Have Harrowing Adventure.

The Southern planters, who can sell cotton with profit at ten cents per pound, cannot produce corn for less than one dollar per bushel, or tenfold the cost in the West, and in past years a dollar has been the customary price from North Carolina to Texas.

Can you grow corn on these hills, or make pastures of these rocky lowlands?

"How much more good will it do you to go there than to stay at home and hoe my corn?"

In the meantime Caesar's lieutenants, Q. Titurius and L. Cotta, who had led the legions into the territories of the Menapii, having laid waste all their lands, cut down their corn and burnt their houses, returned to Caesar because the Menapii had all concealed themselves in their thickest woods.

He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone-fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them.

He took down his precious hamper, unharnessed his two horses, covered them with rugs and gave them their corn.

The feeding of the sacred chickens, and the manner of their taking the corn that was offered to them, was the most common method of taking the augury.

Thus I go out into the passageway and give my horse his oats, throw corn and stalks to the pigs and a handful of grain to Harriet's chickens (it's the only way to stop the cackling!).

Notwithstanding, at the time of reaping, that ground so trodden bare more corn and better than any other fields beside, not trodden, did.

The heathen pilled and wasted, but gathered neither corn into barns nor cattle within the byre.

As soon as might be he embarked five Legions, say twenty-thousand men, with two thousand cavalry and horses, an enormous transport, and doubtless a great number of camp followers, leaving behind on the continent three legions and two thousand horse to guard the harbours and provide corn, and to inform him what was going on in Gaul in his absence, and to act in case of necessity.

Maybe they've sent you some corn.