She pressed the preserves, the chicken, the cornbread upon her.
Then he fished out a huge square of cornbread and a loaf of salt-rising bread, a pound of butter-- "What will your folks say?
And then they laughed again, and fell upon the cooling cornbread and molasses and melancholy bits of fried pork and the thin ghost of tea as if they were already engaged in a feast of Thanksgiving.
This was done, it was said, in retaliation for the Confederates feeding the Yankee prisoners on cornbreadand sour sorghum.
We would have been very glad to have gotten cornbread and sorghum, such as the Yankee prisoners had.
It and the cornbread and bacon that came with it were nectar and ambrosia to the hungry prisoners.
Reassured as to this, she produced the cold cornbread and bacon she had taken from the spring-house when she left home that morning for her daily task of gathering the family cows.
My pappy never ate no cornbread in all his put-together.
I liked cornbread best and I'd give a dollar to git some of the bread we had on those good old days and I ain't joking.
He had a cabin called jail for the nigger women, and chain them in with cornbread and one glass of water.
Dey allus had plenty of everything and dey had a big, wooden tray, or trough and dey put potlicker and cornbread in dat trough and set it under de big locust tree and all us li'l niggers jis' set 'round and eat and eat.
At mealtime they hand me a piece of cornbread and tell me 'Run 'long.
We chillun had supper early in de evenin' and mostlycornbread and hawg meat and milk.
Us have syrup and cornbread and lots of sweet 'taters and homecure' meat what dey salt down and hang in de smokehouse.
Us have coosh-coosh, dat cornbread and meat, and some fish to eat.
Our cornbread was what you calls water pone bread and cooked in the ashes.
We niggers lived in log houses and slep' on hay mattress with lowell covers, and et fat pork and cornbread and 'lasses and all kinds garden stuff.
Every day de big, old cowhorn blow for dinner and us have de little tin cup what us git potlicker in and meat and cornbread and salt bacon.
Then there was only cornbread to eat and Sally's cornbread wasn't very good.
He was always hungry, hungry for knowledge--not hungry for bacon and cornbread the way Johnny was.
I know it doesn't taste like the cornbread Mammy used to make.
Betsy mixed a fresh batch of cornbreadin the iron skillet, and Sally set it on the hearth to bake.
He took a piece of cornbread wrapped in a corn husk from his pocket.
The children helped their mother to unpack, and she mixed batter for cornbread in a big iron skillet.
Certainly anywhere in the South sugar in the cornbread would label any family as not to the manor-born, while in the North sugar in the cornbread is a regular thing, born or not born.
But everything was devoured,--the last crumb of cornbread did duty in sopping up the final drop of grease.
Rousseau sent out foraging parties in that region and appropriated the corn, and set the mills to grinding it, and oh, what finecornbread we had!
Only cornbread and sassafras tea at one place; no servants to render attention; silver gone; family portraits punctured with bayonets; furniture and mirrors broken.
Then to the delight of the boys the trapper drew a small tin pail out of his pack-sack, together with some cornbreadand a big piece of bacon for each one.
Here is a piece of cornbread left over from my breakfast.
There, lads," he said, "you warm the cornbread and fry the bacon while I make tea.
Potlicker and cornbread was fed to us chillun, out of big old wooden bowls.
Bout four o'clock on summer atternoons, dey sot a big old wooden bowl full of cornbread crumbs out in de yard and poured in buttermilk or potliquor 'til de crumbs was kivered.
TR: Return Visit] The next day Aunt Martha was in bed, slowly eating a bowl of potlicker and turnip greens into which cornbread had been crumbled.
A little Nigger could put peas and cornbread away mighty fast wid a mussel shell.
Dey jes' poured de peas on de chunks of cornbread what dey had crumbled in de trough, and us had to mussel 'em out.
Chillun et in de yard at de big house, whar dey give us plenty of meat and cornbread wid good vegetables for dinner.
They stacked the corn all day, and at dark Steve had another chicken and more cornbread and an egg for supper.
He had cornbread and a chicken for supper, and then he wrapped himself luxuriously in the quilt again and slept all night.
As Bert spoke, a sound was heard inside the cave, and, in a minute, out came the culprit with an accusing piece of cornbread in his hand, blinking like an owl brought suddenly into the glare of the sun.
When they were gone, we would get back to cornbread and bacon or beef hash or boiled beef as best we could, and very often the transition "was awful sudden.
It wascornbread 'twell on Sundays den us'd git fo' biscuits apiece.
Dat piece of cornbread was all us had for breakfus', an' for supper, us had de same.
When meal time come, dey would crumble up cornbread wid pot licker, or milk an' gib to de youngest ones.
And if you have a bit of imagination you'll wait your turn and take home a poke of meal and have cornbread for supper.
Tillie and the children had washed the dishes, and she had carried out the soapy dishwater with cornbread scraps mixed in it and poured it in the trough for the pig.
They remembered that at noon time he had spread a piece of cornbread with Bossy's butter.
At dinner we had some fried pork, fried eggs swimming in grease, and coffee similar to that we had at breakfast, and cornbread and all at the same price.
I managed to cut off a piece of the headcheese and cornbread and took my coffee and went back to the fireplace to eat and my wife soon followed, making her breakfast on some cookies we had brought with us.
She make 'ash cat', cornbread wrop in cabbage leaf and put ashes 'round it.
We grated corn by hand forcornbread and made waterpone in the ashes.
They used to feed us peas and cornbread and hominy, and sometime they threw beef in a pot and bile it, but we never had hawg meat.
We allus had plenty to eat, sich as it was them days, and it was good, plenty wild meat and cornbread cooked in ashes.
Dere am cornbread and cornmeal mush and corn hominy and corn grits and parched corn for drink, 'stead of tea or coffee.
Eatin' time come, my mother brung a pot of peas or beans and cornbread or side meat.
We hadcornbread and blackeyed peas and beans and sorghum 'lasses.
I sat on the floor with my plate, and a piece of cornbread (flour not to be bought at any price) and ate with my fingers--a new experience.
She says the one chicken and two dozen eggs Miriam and I succeeded in buying from the negroes by prayers and entreaties, saved them from actual hunger; and for two days they had been living on one egg apiece and some cornbread and syrup.
Swiped from the screw's poke, Cornbread Tom's dinner-basket, you know.
We call him Cornbread Tom, b'cause he swipes our corn dodger.
Toosdays and Satoordays we gets a chunk of cornbread for breakfast.
Julie would rake out dem coals and kivver 'em wid ashes, and den she would wrop a pone of cornbread dough in collard or cabbage leaves and put it on dem ashes and rake more ashes over it.
Us never had nothin' but cornbread and buttermilk at night.
What dey give chillun de most of was potlicker poured over cornbread crumbs in a long trough.
These children were fed cornbread and milk for breakfast and supper, and "pot licker" with cornbread for dinner.
Lots of de cornbread was baked in pones on spiders, but ashcakes was a mighty go in dem days.
At nights, she crumbled de cornbread in de trough and poured buttermilk over it.
In the red firelight a plain pine table was spread with a scant supper of cornbread and bacon and a cracked Wedgewood pitcher filled with buttermilk.
Mother has her young chicken, and there's bacon and cornbread for the rest of us, so I hope the poor man won't go back hungry.
Smiling broadly, Tucker tossed a scrap of cornbread into Spy's open jaws; then his gaze travelled leisurely to the hen-house, which Lila had just unlocked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornbread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
