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Example sentences for "corns"

Lexicographically close words:
cornices; cornland; cornmeal; cornopean; cornpone; cornstalks; cornstarch; cornu; cornua; cornucopia
  1. It is well to put into the pot, at first, twenty or thirty corns of whole Pepper.

  2. The excessive paring of corns is the chief reason of the difficulty of getting permanently rid of them.

  3. Boil a dozen blades of mace and half a dozen pepper-corns in about a jill and a half (or three wine-glasses) of water, till all the strength of the spice is extracted.

  4. Add a bunch of sweet herbs, and a small table-spoonful of black pepper-corns tied in a thin muslin rag.

  5. Pale with emotion, Don Timoteo, dissembling the pain of his corns and accompanied by his son and some of the greater gods, descended to receive the Mighty Jove.

  6. Don Timoteo began to feel his belt squeezing him, the corns on his feet began to ache, his neck became tired, but still the General had not come.

  7. Soft corns may be relieved by dissolving a piece of ammonia, the size of three peas, in an ounce of water, and applying the solution as hot as can be borne.

  8. That will keep them from scalding, and hence softening, so that corns will easily form.

  9. Corns and Bunions= are caused by tight, ill-fitting boots and shoes.

  10. The Increase or Return of Corns can only be prevented, by avoiding the Causes that produce them.

  11. I don't believe in a person's eyes being so fixed on heaven, that he goes blundering over everybody's corns on the way there.

  12. Yet notwithstanding, somebody stole it, but put five Indian corns in the room of it; which corns were the greatest provisions I had in my travel for one day.

  13. III THERE ARE CORNS IN EGYPT Our civilization--wise child!

  14. She walks like a blind plough-horse in a broken pasture, up and down, over and over; with a gait as rigid and deliberate as if she trod among the hot cinders, and had corns on all her toes.

  15. A horse that has once had corns to any considerable extent should, at every shoeing, have the seat of corn well pared out, and the butyr of antimony applied.

  16. He has already trimmed his corns to fit a major-general's shoes.

  17. Ward's paste, or 20 black pepper-corns taken after each meal twice a day; the pepper-corns should be cut each into two or three pieces.

  18. Ten corns of black pepper swallowed whole after dinner, that its effect might be slower and more permanent; a small pipe occasionally introduced into the rectum to facilitate the escape of the air.

  19. Spice swallowed in large fragments, as ten or fifteen black pepper-corns cut in half, and taken after dinner and supper.

  20. Smear this over the corns and keep the toes apart with absorbent cotton.

  21. Soft corns must be treated the same as hard ones: soften the corn tissue so it will come away without pain.

  22. That's libelous; I'll have him up for that--Has had his corns cut.

  23. My corns unleathered I expose To feel the rain's foretellin' throes.

  24. To him neither shrines were dedicated nor sacrifices offered,[194] yet before meals corns of rice were to be scattered for him as for the rest of the gods, and spirits.

  25. The later law knows nine divine judgments; it adds the corns of rice, the hot piece of gold, the ploughshare, and the lot.

  26. When it comes to a boil, skim and set back where it will simmer six hours; then add a bouquet of sweet herbs, one onion, six cloves and twelve pepper-corns to each gallon of stock.

  27. In a small frying-pan put one table-spoonful of butter, a small slice of onion, six pepper-corns and four whole cloves.

  28. But one of them trod so heavily on my poor corns the other day with his wooden machines, that I vowed to do it; but not a word--you promise that?


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.