They invested her with the ornaments of the goddess, putting a mitre on her head and maize-cobs round her neck and in her hands, and fastening a green feather upright on the crown of her head to imitate an ear of maize.
The stones used to make maize grow were fashioned in the likeness of cobs of maize, and the stones destined to multiply cattle had the shape of sheep.
Dey had plenty wood, but used corn cobs for de fire.
Each kernel as it crackled sent out a blazing jet of oil and the cobs left a fine bed of coals for the corn popper to be shaken over.
They have found it possible to work up the corn cobs into glucose and xylose by heating with acid.
More promising is the discovery by this laboratory that by digesting the cobs with hot water there can be extracted about 30 per cent.
Illustration: "I'm ergwine back lak dat prodigle man dat et up dem corn cobs way out yander to de tuther eend o' de yearth.
The feeding and bedding attended to, with a basket of cobs in his hand for his mother, he hurried away to the woodpile.
Breakfast was ready when, carrying his customary basket of cobs for his mother, he returned to the house.
On advice, we have put several corncobs in her feeding box, and now when she is given her oats she has to take reasonably sized mouthfuls and there is no waste.
Beside the door stood two stout cobs with broad soft-padded saddles, well fitted for easy traveling, and speaking of rich guests in the parlor.
At any rate I have made up my mind to try the experiment for a few days," and throwing manners to the winds, I grabbed four of the upper mealie cobs and the top of the pumpkin which I cut off with a knife.
For instance, there was a whole platter full of roasted mealie cobs and a great boiled pumpkin, to say nothing of some bowls of curdled milk.
Cut a notch, or saw it, if the cobs are dry and hard, on the tops of the ends of each of the two foundation logs (Fig.
Fresh, green, uncooked corn-cobs from which the corn has been cut and scraped make delightful pioneer log-houses.
Lay the two foundation cobs down parallel to each other and a short distance apart; then bridge across the ends with shorter cobs, fitting the notches into each other.
When the corn was shelled, the cobs were not carelessly discarded or disregarded.
The top row of the exhibited collection of maize cobs (large cobs with many grains) is derived from a family in which for five generations self-fertilization has been prevented by using mixed pollen.
The middle row of maize cobs (small cobs with few grains) comes from families of the same derivation as the first row; but for five generations they have been self-fertilized.
For instance, he had filled the kettles and tubs with water, and fetched a big basket of cobs to make a fire under the wash-kettle, all before he had gone to Emerald on what he declared to be a very particular errand of his own.
He brings in cobs and shells peas, and other light work to help Kitty.
It seemed to have been a feeding place for hogs from time immemorial, for corn cobs covered the earth for a foot or more in depth.
Throwing the cobs in every direction, he cried out, "Oh!
The cobstossed their heads again at this, and tried to break into another canter.
Once a month a number of booksellers gather here and we discuss matters of bookish concern over corn-cobs and cider.
And last night, when the Corn Cobs were here, I went out to look up a quotation in it, and it was gone again.
All the buttons are coming off, just the way Tom made the kernels of corn come off the cobs for the chickens!
That's how I shell the corn cobs for the chickens," said the hired man.
As he spoke the doll dropped from a tin spout on the other side of the machine, at the place where the shelled cobs dropped out.
He dared not throw more cobson the fire; Antone would be angry.
He went out and got an armful of wood and a basket of cobs and filled the stove.
The tender Waffle hearts are Set upon Is either Crisp or Soggy, and Anon Like Maple Syrup made of corn and Cobs Lasts but a scant Five Minutes, and is Gone.
Much of it is made from corn cobs and molasses, sealed in tin cans bearing gaudy labels, and, sailing under false colors, is sold to the trusting consumer at a high price.
There were two stout cobs attached by their bridles to the garden gate, and on them the brothers soon rode into the nearest market-town.
I carried in cobsand wood from the long cellar, and filled both the stoves.
I resumed all my chores, carried in thecobs and wood and water, and spent the afternoons at the barn, watching Jake shell corn with a hand-sheller.
The cobs had been newly clipped, and all their nerves appeared to be outside their skins.
At last these hogs became so bold and desperate, after having been repeatedly driven away, that they began to poke their snouts into the hot ashes for the burning cobs of corn.
We had cooked the corn, and after picking the cobs had thrown the latter into the hot ashes.
My brother said I might drive into Stralsund to-day if I liked, and I have the cobshere now.
She drove Axel's cobs up to the door in what she felt was excellent style, and hoped Miss Estcourt was watching her from a window and would see that Englishwomen were not the only sportswomen in the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cobs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
