His home-made palm-tree hat was placed upon the ground beside him, and his cloak of coarse red baize was thrown back from his shoulders, as he sat smoking a cigarette rolled in a maize leaf, for in the Jesuit capillas only women smoked cigars.
Their hair was as black as a crow’s back, and quite as shiny, and their white teeth so strong that they could tear the ears of corn out of a maize cob like a horse munching at his corn.
In the soft landscape the maize fields wave in the rich hollows on both sides of the Minho.
An etymology has been suggested for the name Grano Turco [Turkish grain], in the antics of boys when bearded and moustached with maize silk, they mimic the fierce looks of Turks in the high 'corn.
Then the garden is to be watched while the god-given maize is growing.
It came to pass that the land was sore distressed by dearth and famine, and when the people appealed to the woman she gave them maize in plenty.
If he does, he apes a habit no less American in its origin than the maize itself.
He belongs to the American continent as strictly as its opossums and armadillos, its maize and its golden-rod, or any members of its aboriginal fauna and flora belong to it.
As regards the position of Vinland, the presence of maize seems to indicate a somewhat lower latitude than Nova Scotia.
Here the Spaniards first tasted the chicha, or maize beer, and marvelled at the heavy clubs, armed with sharp blades of obsidian, with which the soldiers of Cortes were by and by to become unpleasantly acquainted.
Some pertinent remarks on the extraordinary reproductive power of maize in Mexico may be found in Humboldt, Essai politique sur la Nouvelle Espagne, Paris, 1811, tom.
Thus the worthy Adam, while telling the truth about fox-grapes and maize as well as he knew how, spoiled the effect of his story by putting Vinland in the Arctic regions.
Maize requires intensely hot summers, and even under the most careful European cultivation does not flourish north of the Alps.
Maize or "Indian corn" has played a most important part in the history of the New World, as regards both the red men and the white men.
This tax consisted in great part of maize and other food, and each tributary pueblo reserved a certain portion of its tribal territory to be cultivated for the benefit of the domineering confederacy.
In countries where maize is extensively grown it has not only its own species of mildew (Puccinia), but also one of the most enormous and destructive species of Ustilago.
We have seen it on numerous grasses as well as on barley from the Punjab, and a species different from Ustilago maydis on the male florets of maize from the same locality.
So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom and tasselled maize That skirt and gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things below.
Broad on either hand The golden wheat-fields glimmered in the sun, And the tall maize its yellow tassels spun.
Our camp was put up near a Kaffir location, and as the Kaffirs were clean, we often bought boiled sweet potatoes and crushed maize from them.
Four to six grains of maize and two or three beans were seeded in each hill, separately spaced.
It so increased the production of maize that seven years later as has already been noted, the colonists had a surplus of this product to export to New England.
Maize aided the colonists in the production of valuable livestock products.
Maize saved the colony from starvation on several occasions.
Maize became an export commodity to the New England and West Indian colonies when the price for tobacco fell below the cost of transportation to Europe.
My beast splashed through water almost up to his belly, and Dutsi took circuits through peoples maize fields.
The woman threw down a little maize and called the hens.
Then he gathered up the bedding in a bundle, they wished me good-night, and left me with a sackful of dried maize husks on two packing-cases, and a wadded coverlet.
He slung a big pot, poured olive oil in it, and stirred in coarse maize flour as it boiled.
But both maize and tobacco seem to do well upon it, and every year more land is taken into cultivation.
The principal article next to rice, as affording food to man, ismaize or Indian corn, termed jágung.
In similar manner, the tegal lands (under which description are comprehended all lands not subject to irrigation) shall be estimated, in their produce, at what would be the quantity of maize from them were that the sole crop.
In the value of the produce, the prices for both the paddy and the maize must be taken as they exist in the cheapest season of the year, and actually procurable on the spot.
Maize is considered, in estimating the produce of the tegal lands, to produce the justest assessment; but this must be invariably commuted for a money rent on fair principles.
The introduction of maize or Indian corn into Java.
The Toultecs introduced the cultivation of maize and cotton; they built cities, made roads, and constructed those great pyramids which are yet admired, and of which the faces are very accurately laid out.
In cases where there was a second crop of less value than the principal rice or maize crop, no additional demand was made upon the additional grain reaped by the farmer.
There were cakes of ground maize baked on hot stones, and though Champlain had used his best efforts to keep some restraint on spirituous liquors, there were many ways of evading.
There had been quite an acreage of grain sown the year before, maize was promising, and a variety of vegetables had been cultivated.
Their sixth moon, which answered to our August, was the Mulberry Moon, and the seventh was the moon of Maize or Great Corn.
The Matse tribe of Ewe negroes in Togoland worship the Earth at the times when they dig the ripe yams in September, when they reap the ripe maize in November, and when they burn the grass in February.
M59) The Bororo Indians of Brazil think that it would be certain death to eat the new maize before it has been blessed by the medicine-man.
It is at the general assembly of the warriors, when the maize is ripe, that the lively discussions take place and the questions are put to which the king must answer at once in a manner satisfactory to the people.
In the same tribe men whose totem is the red maize, think that if they ate red maize they would have running sores all round their mouths.
Also there are all kinds of food, such as yams and maize and likewise stock-yams, not to speak of cotton; in fact, all these things came from heaven just as men themselves did.
The Bororo are firmly persuaded that were any man to touch unconsecrated maize or meat, before the ceremony had been completed, he and his whole tribe would perish.
It was the custom of the Arkansas Indians to offer the first-fruits of the ripe maize and melons to the Master of Life; even children would die of hunger rather than touch the new fruits before this offering had been made.
Work in double crochet with maize over one ring 38 stitches; this is the centre ring for the bottom of the purse.
Materials: 67 rings; 2 skeins each of cerise and black, and 1 of maize coarse purse silk.
Then work over 16 rings with maize colour, and join them beyond the black, but not to lie flat down; they are to stand up to form the sides of the purse.
In view of this necessitous situation, we had at once started to grow maize in the fertile lowlands of Logeloge and Mpanganya, but the harvest could not be expected before March, 1917.
This was as bad economy as well could be, but it gave me the idea that in case of need the maize crops could be largely used before they were ripe.
I spent the night in his camp, and he set before me an excellent dish of young maize prepared like asparagus.
In this district the harvest was very much earlier than in German East Africa; the maize was beginning to ripen and could to a large extent already be eaten.
Here, it is true, some hundreds of acres of maize were standing, but even these would require months to ripen.
This led us to speak of the maize fields of Mpanganya and the neighbourhood.
Here the age of the personal representative of the corn-spirit corresponds with that of the supposed age of the corn-spirit, just as the human victims offered by the Mexicans to promote the growth of the maize varied with the age of the 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.
Figures of these divine mothers were made respectively of ears of maize and leaves of the quinoa and coca plants; they were dressed in women's clothes and worshipped.
From the moment that they sowed the maize till the time that they reaped it, the Indians of Nicaragua lived chastely, keeping apart from their wives and sleeping in a separate place.
In the foregoing custom the identification of the young girl with the Maize Goddess appears to be complete.
This they did, we are told, in order to signify that the maize was almost ripe at the time of the festival, but because it was still tender they chose a girl of tender years to play the part of the Maize Goddess.
Further, young women came and put dried flesh into the mouths of the old women, for which they received in return a grain of the consecrated maize to eat.
I remember being pleasantly surprised in a shepherd’s hut on the Puna, at having placed before me some boiled maize on a plate ornamented with a picture of John Anderson my joe and his gude wife, with two verses of the song beneath it.
A few villages are scattered on the route, and in the neighborhood of these, maize and potatoes are grown even at a height of some ten thousand feet.
Milk (never taken fresh), millet and maize form the staples of food, and meat is seldom eaten except in time of war.
Cereals ripen well, and barley and maize grow up to considerable altitudes.
There were the black, ploughed fields, steaming in the sunshine, larks springing up from the glittering leaves, and noisy squirrels in the bay tree laying away their stores of nuts and maize in its hundred hollows.
The hungry sailors revelled in the fruits, and reaped plentiful harvests of maize and rice, which Ravenau says "the Spaniards, I believe, did not sow with an intention they should enjoy.
They were now reduced to a handful of raw maize a day.
When planting time came, it was a friendly Indian named Squanto who showed them how to plant their maize and tend it so as to get good crops.
The action suited the word; the three minutes were past: Valentine took out the egg, beheaded it, sprinkled a little salt on it, and presented it to the Ulmen with some long strips ofmaize bread.
Ears of maize and great sides of beef and pork hang drying from above.
Maize and millet rim all the foot-hills, and forests the higher mountains around.
The tea is inferior, and we had to be content with maize meal, bean curds, rice roasted in sugar, and sweet gelatinous cakes made from the waste of maize meal.
The normal price of maize is sixteen cash the sheng, it now cost sixty-five cash the sheng.
Outside the door cooking was done in the usual square earthen stove, in which are sunk two iron basins, one for rice, the other for hot water; maize stalks were being burnt in the flues.
They ate only twice a day, and then sparingly, of maize and vegetables; they took but little rice, and no tea, and only a very small allowance of pork once in two days.
He ate the humblest dishful ofmaize husks and meal strainings.
Minnetarees, Indian tribe of North America, their personification of maizeas an Old Woman, vii.
Nicaragua, maize mixed with human blood eaten at festivals in, viii.
September, month of the maize harvest in modern Greece, vii.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: color; grass; oats; pigment; vegetable; wheat; yellow
