"Cornstalk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the oak of his box-door; and the tete-a-tete in the sultry, oppressive night went on as the speakers moved to a prudent distance; one of them thoughtfully chewing a bit of straw, after the immemorial habit of grooms, who ever seem as if they had been born into this world with a cornstalk ready in ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... Sam Cooley, attired in one of Mrs. Burke's discarded underskirts, filched from the ragbag, with some dried cornstalk gummed on his face, impersonated the famous Bearded ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott
... guess you did," said Uncle Wiggily, sadly, as he looked for his cornstalk crutch. When he had it he was just going to hop away, and Grandpa Croaker was going with him, for they were afraid to stay there any more, when ...
— Bully and Bawly No-Tail • Howard R. Garis |
