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Example sentences for "corncob"

Lexicographically close words:
cormorant; cormorants; corms; corn; cornbread; corncrake; corncrib; cornder; corne; cornea
  1. Her uncle had risen and was feeling for his corncob pipe on the ledge above the door.

  2. Mr. Day had camped upon the identical bench again and was still sucking at the stem of his corncob pipe.

  3. The Toyman puffed away on his corncob pipe before he answered: "Oh inside he's the same.

  4. The corncob pipes we always buy come from Boonville, Mo.

  5. Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love, honor and keep him, and let him smoke a corncob pipe in the house?

  6. Missouri's reputation for incredulity may be due to the corncob habit.

  7. A corncob is sadly hot and raw until it is well sooted, but the ultimate flavor is worth persecution.

  8. A corncob pipe is a humble badge of philosophy, an evidence of tolerance and even humor.

  9. Think, therefore, of the charm of a town where corncob pipes are the chief industry.

  10. Illustration] What is the subtle magic of a corncob pipe?

  11. Oh, but rabbits live underground, and not in corncob houses, though such houses are very nice," said Uncle Wiggily.

  12. But he started back to the corncob house to tell Mrs. Cat that he couldn't find her Snowball.

  13. You can build yourself a nice little corncob house next to ours," said Snowball, "and live in it; and you can tell me a story every night.

  14. Over on the candy counter was a tray of corncob pipes.

  15. In my old felt hat and smoking my corncob I trudged along the road in the mellow sunlight, almost happy.

  16. Aunt Ailsey took up a corncob pipe from the stones and fell to smoking.

  17. The mountaineer left the shadow of the fence corner and slowly dragged himself into the little glow, where he sat puffing at his corncob pipe.

  18. At the call to arms he had come, with long strides, down from his bare little cabin in the Blue Ridge, bringing with him a flintlock musket, a corncob pipe, and a stockingful of Virginia tobacco.

  19. Big Abel shuffled into the cabin and came back with his corncob pipe and a lighted taper.

  20. Bland and Baker, having heatedly discussed the details of the victory, had at last drifted into silence; only Pinetop was awake--this he learned from the odour of the corncob pipe which floated from a sheltered corner.

  21. Since that time she had done a power of "projeckin'" over her corncob pipe, but events were now hurrying toward conclusions beyond her ken.

  22. She supposed herself to be in deep meditation, and regarded her corncob pipe not merely a solace but also as an invaluable assistant to clearness of thought.

  23. She snatched the corncob pipe and tobacco pouch, and sped back again in a strange blending of fear and hope.

  24. The old darky removed the corncob from his mouth and looked up at his late employer.

  25. That ancient colored gentleman removed the corncob from between his teeth and pursed his lips.

  26. Sister Sallie, who had put her own corncob doll under some grass to sleep.

  27. I'll throw it out and play with my corncob doll this morning.

  28. As soon as he was out of sight Peace slid from her perch to the ground below, deserting the corncob doll she had been dressing, and scurried away to the barn loft to face the new and undreamed-of situation.

  29. The pipe, of the corncob variety, was very aged and black.

  30. No corncob pipe is fit for anything until it has been used at least a fortnight.

  31. Each one was smoking a corncob pipe or rolling a quid of tobacco under his tongues.

  32. He was smoking tobacco contained in a corncob pipe.

  33. Both these extremities rested on the rail of the porch, while McNutt smoked a corncob pipe and stared at his approaching visitors with his disconcerting, protruding eyes.

  34. I never thought I had no call to stick my nose inter other folkses privit doin's," he said, after a few puffs at the corncob pipe.

  35. Pete told me that we should have to cut the ridge to the south of Corncob Hill, taking a rather wide detour to reach the place.

  36. I feel good and I say, 'This we call Corncob Hill.

  37. I gave Pete a new corncob pipe as he was leaving.

  38. I remember corncob pipe you give me, and what I tell you.

  39. I had walked but half a mile when I came upon the rough hummocks of the Inlet ice.

  40. No artist's imaginative brush ever pictured such gorgeous sunsets and sunrises as Nature painted for us here on the Great Lake of the Indians.

  41. And I want a corncob cake," went on Flop.

  42. Yet there he found himself presently, smoking his corncob pipe for comfort, and staring at the solitary light in Tillie Bergen's parlor, which proclaimed its occupant.

  43. At last Peter gave up the search and went out into the air, and lighted his corncob pipe, puzzled at his failure.

  44. Not to those who hear you sing, Beth," said Peter with a smile, as he lighted and smoked a corncob pipe, a new vice he had discovered at the camp.

  45. Her corncob pipe--it was as rank a thing as ditch digger ever poisoned the clean air with.

  46. I'll bet she still clings grimly to an astral corncob pipe somewhere in space.

  47. When they came out on the deck they found Captain Starr sitting on a bench smoking a corncob pipe.

  48. He found Captain Starr on the front deck of the houseboat smoking his corncob as usual.

  49. At this question Captain Starr leaped to his feet, allowing his corncob pipe to fall to the ground.

  50. They's a new corncob laying in back somewheres.

  51. Ever and anon she drew, with manifest enjoyment, at an old brown corncob pipe.

  52. Her simple meal finished, she began to stuff her corncob pipe.

  53. Here was but one individual, a man in his shirt-sleeves who was smoking a corncob pipe and bending over a test tube.

  54. He refilled and relighted the corncob while Mr. Merrick stared at him in thoughtful silence.

  55. The girl made no reply, though she laughed over her shoulder at the old man, who, with his cap pushed back, sat by the stove in his wooden armchair, smoking his corncob pipe in solid comfort.

  56. Cap'n Ezra Bassett puffed on his favorite corncob pipe for several thoughtful moments before he answered his friend's question.

  57. Captain Ezra puffed on his corncob pipe a moment, then said: "I reckon he'll be over long 'bout tomorrer.

  58. When the supper dishes had been washed and put away, Rilla found her grandfather sitting just outside the door smoking his beloved corncob pipe and watching the sunset.

  59. Gene asked, looking up eagerly from the letter into the face of the old man, who sat near the stove, cap pulled well down over his eyes, smoking hard on his corncob pipe.

  60. All the while he smoked steadily a long corncob pipe, and to watch him at his task, was to receive an impression that the hauling of manure was sufficient to fill one's life with dignity and contentment.

  61. I ain't never set back mo' than was respectable in a man of ninety," croaked old Adam indignantly, while he prodded the ashes in his corncob pipe with his stubby forefinger.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corncob" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clay; cob; corncob; ear; hookah; meerschaum; pipe; spike