The barn was well filled with hay, the oat-bin bulged with fodder, and the silo, where the cornstalks were kept as feed for the cows, seemed like to split apart with its rich contents.
The dried cornstalks rustled in the wind, and there was a pleasant smell in the air.
It seemed we were running and stumbling through all the cornstalks in the whole world, but Shoogie didn't care.
We could hear the drycornstalks popping like little firecrackers as Ned and Stray and Mister Ward got closer and closer.
For a few moments Remember leaned against the beams of the door listening to the call of a flock of flying crows and the crackling of the dried cornstalks in the field back of the house.
Even now, when the wind blew cold from the water front and rustled the cornstalks and rattled the red pods of the rose hips, the Governor's garden was a pleasant place for a child to see.
The bed is three feet wide by thirty long, and was covered last winter with loose straw and leaves, with a few cornstalks to hold them in place.
Mr. Ludlow: Have you had any experience with using cornstalksthat have been fed off, just the stalk without the leaves.
Nagtarugsuy lang ang mais kay wà ulana, The cornstalks stood like pointed sticks because there was no rain.
Let’s gather the cornstalks to feed the water buffaloes.
Untup kaáyung pagputul sa dagámi, The cornstalks were cut very close to the base.
Then I remembered that when feeding the bottom of the stack of cornstalks I had noticed that the butts of some of the sheaves were mouldy.
When I had finished cleaning the cornstalks out of the mangers and had put in a fresh supply of feed I noticed that only the red cow and her eldest daughter, who never leaves her side, had returned to the barnyard.
But though it is a nuisance clearing out the stalks in this way I have a vivid recollection of trying to pitch manure that had cornstalks mixed with it and I have made up my mind that that will never happen again.
I wish some one would tell me why it is that the tines of a fork will slip through cornstalks so easily and are so hard to pull out.
Cow Troubles I know I should have a silo for the cornstalks or at least a cutting box, but I haven't either, and the result is that I have trouble.
The cornstalks were harvested and part of the grain threshed out.
A few more steps accordingly brought them to a cleared part of the field, where the tall and thick cornstalks were laid on the ground.
The sky remained grey, discharging misty raindrops which soaked into everything and hung trembling like strung pearls on the leaves of the beech-hedge and on the grass and on the cornstalks in the fields.
The white spots on Trientje's pinafore were run through with the black; and wet cornstalks whipped her little thin skirt.
More tall cornstalks formed a background to the throne and at each side stood a noble sheaf of wheat.
Above this was a semicircular canopy cleverly made of cornstalks and bunches of grain and up on the very top was the biggest pumpkin you ever saw cut like a jack-o'-lantern.
Another curiosity was the protective fencing for the road, made of cornstalks to keep back the sand, as we make board fences against the snow.
The seven leaders move steadily, also in time with the music, as they hold the cornstalks high, while the followers wave their scarfs or mantles and dance happily and lightly, but with dignity.
The dancers who follow the seven leaders carrying the cornstalks represent the people in triumphal procession in honor of Corn as "Mother breathing forth life.
On the space which heretofore in these dances has represented the "field," the seven cornstalks or wands should be laid in a windrow on the ground.
Then Aunt Dorothy and the children saw the butcher birds alight on the ground on which the cornstalkshad been and catch young mice and moles.
As soon as he had pulled away the cornstalks he stooped down and walked away some distance as quickly and quietly as he could.
This time there was a rat under the cornstalks and a bold butcher bird flew at him and tried to kill him.
Each priest places the sunflowers on his head and each takes two cornstalks in his hands and the procession, two abreast, forms to ascend the mesa.
I think the best thing we can do is to lie down here on these cornstalks and take a nap.
Accordingly the boys stretched themselves on the earth which was covered with cornstalks and in a few moments both were sleeping soundly.
However, he wisely held his peace, and cautiously following Aunt Katie soon was conducted to a large stack of cornstalks standing near a corner of the barn.
In spite of the darkness he was aware that the ground within was covered with cornstalks and that it was possible for him to stand erect.
She ran off to fetch the liquor, which gave me time to bury her salad in the manure heap, and get a decent feed of cornstalks down from the loft.
Amongst other plants used for a similar purpose were the bulrush and reed, in connection with-which may be quoted the Irish tale of the rushes and cornstalks that "turn into horses the moment you bestride them[15].
Again, in Oldenburg, it is said that cornstalks must be scattered about a house in which death has entered, as a charm against further misfortune, and in the Tyrol an elder bush is often planted on a newly-made grave.
And Toiney set to work cutting down cornstalks again as if the subject were unhappily disposed of.
The Kansa say that when a man has danced the pipe dance twice, his tent can be decorated with two cornstalks at the front (one on each side of the entrance), and two more at the back.
The cornstalks and ears were green, the tips of the ears were black.
There were two similar cornstalks on the back of the tent.
After the day's husking comes the job of binding up the cornstalks and when the stalks are dry it is just about the meannest job imaginable.
Among materials that may be used for a mulch may be mentioned pine needles, leaves of any kind, straw, cornstalks run through the cutter, clippings from the lawn, etc.
Cornstalks have been suggested, but they are probably too coarse to keep down weeds.
His hand struck out wildly and was speared on a poisoned fin, and unlike Joel, he went from sight with a great yell and a whirling and a churning of the water that made the cornstalkscircle on the edges of a small whirlpool.
But the whirlpool soon thinned away into widening rings of ripples and the cornstalks quit circling and became still again, and only the multiplying night noises sounded about the mouth of the slough.
When he rustled the dried cornstalks the third time, Master Meadow Mouse had cried right out in his sleep.
All over the field bundles of cornstalks stood in rows, like soldiers.
For Fatty began to pull at the cornstalks with his claws.
But not until he saw what Farmer Green was doing with the cornstalks did Master Meadow Mouse decide on his new dwelling.
Not being on the detail for guard, Walt Loucks, Len Loucks, Bill Snyder and myself have hauled up a lot of cornstalks beside a fence and I have written up my diary while they have made up the beds.
Reynolds and I with a part of the guard finally climbed a ladder and got into a loft full of cornstalks with the corn on just as it had been cut and stored away.
The fellow seemed to come from a stack of cornstalks down in the cornfield.
Rover; and in a moment more he thrust his hand in between thecornstalks and pulled out the missing suitcase.
It did not take Nappy Martell long to reach the cornfield; and from a distance the Rovers saw him rush around, first to one stack ofcornstalks and then to another.
At the same time, I don't think Colonel Colby wants his cornstalks used for a hotel," returned Walt; and then he and Ned walked through the library and went outside on the campus.
Back they hurried to the field where the big shocks of dried cornstalks stood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornstalks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
