CORN-FED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Corn-fed

"Corn-fed" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Prescott—say, as far as from Philadelphia to Savannah, or from Richmond to Augusta; but John Wesley had made many such rides in the Odyssey of his wonder years. Some of them had been made in haste. But there was no haste now. Sam Bass, his corn-fed sorrel, was hardly less sleek and sturdy than at the start, though a third of the way was behind him. Pringle rode by easy stages, and where he found himself pleased, there he tarried ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... license of the law or the benefit of clergy. Neither did the irregularity of their birth operate in the least to their disparagement. On the contrary, they grew up a long-sided, raw-boned, hardy race of whalers, wood-cutters, fishermen, and pedlars, and strapping corn-fed wenches, who, by their united efforts, tended marvelously toward peopling those notable tracts of country called ...

— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving

... open with you, French,' says Texas Thompson, so as to make him feel he's ahead on the deal; which he shore is, for this yere Benson Annie is corn-fed, 'if it ain't for a high-sperited lady back in Laredo who relies on me, I'd be playin' your ...

— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis

Words linked to "Corn-fed" : provincial, nourished