Us beds was nailed to de wall at one end and us used corn shucks and pine straw for mattresses.
She said her grandmother made corn-pone and wrapped it in shucks and baked it in ashes.
He thinks there's going to be fortunes in this iron business, and Archie won't be worth shucksat it.
Some slept on wheat, straw an' shucks an' covered wid baggin.
Shucks we doan care nothin' 'bout Wheeler 'cept what we hyar, an dat ain't so good.
Of course, the first ones were a trifle clumsy, but after a while these children were able to make and dress lady dolls as fine as Cornelia Shucks herself.
When Papa was asked to suggest a last name for the young lady from Nebraska he said he thought “Shucks” would probably be as appropriate as any other, so Cornelia Shucks she was called.
Or else you are first advised of his proximity by the dropping of a false nut, or the fragments of the shucks rattling upon the leaves.
A hole is then dug in the ground (near the fire) and lined with shucks into which the mush is poured, it is then covered with shucks after which earth is thrown over it and a large fire built which burns all night.
Such nuts as pecans, hickory nuts, and walnuts transfer large amounts of potassium from the tree itself into the shucksor hulls.
Under conditions of prolonged drought the kernels do not fill properly, maturity of the nuts is delayed, and the shucks or hulls do not open normally.
Later maturing nuts are generally poorly filled; their shells and kernels are often discolored, and the shucks fail to open properly, if at all.
The damage caused not only results in poorly filled nuts but also interferes with the natural separation of the shucks or hulls from the shells.
We'd cut the hay andshucks up fine and stuff the ticks with them.
Lye soap was made by placing burnt ashes into straw with corn shucks placed into harper, water is poured over this mixture and a trough is used to sieze the liquid that drips into the tub and let stand for a day.
Hold up yur head, an may be Plute hyur 'll gie ye a wheen o' corn shucks for yur breakfist.
Laws, they don't amount to shucks 'longside of a flea.
Everybody laughed as Floyd led the girl round to his place and raked up a pile of shucks for her to sit on.
I have often watched him, as he sat bolt upright in a hickory, eating nuts, and throwing the shucks on the ground, with all the gravity of a judge.
And he had scattered the shucks on the broad stone step.
De gen'ral started de song slow and den got it to goin' faster and faster and de livelier de song went de faster de shucks would fly, and de more often dey would pass 'roun' de liquor.
All he done was to lead de singin' and try to git evvybody to jine in his song 'bout de corn, and as dey sung faster, de shucks dey flew faster too.
Home-made rugs was put on top of de shucks for sheets, and de kivver was de same thing.
He said dat when dey got started he would jump up on a big old pile of corn and holler loud as he could whilst he was a snatchin' dem shucks off as fast as greased lightin'.
Dey called it Confederate shucks atter de war 'cause it warn't no good no more den, and she let us chillun play wid it.
Us slep' in beds what was 'tached to de side of de hut, and dey was boxed up lak wagon bodies to hold de corn shucks and de babies in.
De fust thing dey done atter dey got together was to 'lect a general; he led de singin', and de faster he sung de faster de shucks flew.
I don't care shucks how you get it there; so fix it somehow; for it's make or break with me this time.
I don't know shucks 'bout these yer ships, but when it comes to steamboats I reck'n I kin tell a snag from a catfish.
All right--I'm glad we found it out detective fashion; I wouldn't give shucks for any other way.
Picks is the thing, moral or no moral; and as for me, I don't care shucks for the morality of it, nohow.
He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucksalongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with.
We have what we call a pre-oviposition period of about two weeks, during which time the flies are not laying any eggs in the shucks and are moving around feeding.
That's a close-up view and is the type of thing I was trying to describe to you earlier where the shucks dry up and stick to the nut so that you cannot remove them.
We lived in a log cabin made of pine logs and our beds was made outta pine timber with co'n shucks tacked on de bed, and our kivers was feather beds.
De mattress make of shuckstear into strips with maybe a li'l cotton or prairie hay.
Us filled ticks with corn shucks or crab grass and moss.
Den put hay or corn shucks and a little cotton in de ticks.
There has been little disease among my Persian walnuts except that in wet seasons leaves and nut shucks are sometimes attacked by a fungous blight.
The shucks are fairly thin, compared with the Wilcox.
As he sung faster, dey jus' made dem shucksmore dan fly.
When Aunt Patience led de singin' at cornshuckin's, de shucks sho'ly did fly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shucks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
