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Offering a hint of heavy metal, Downtown is a metallic light copper which can be tempered by the lighter tones of Tequila, which is a metallic cornsilk sheen, as well as by the dare to be bare buff tint of Clay.— Romantic Travel News
They crop in close to her face, which is looking a bit tired and windswept, tendrils of dyed-blond hair blowing like stale cornsilk across her distinctly unretouched visage.— Home | The New York Observer
A tea made of cornsilk is a common and standard remedy Treatment.--Remove cause if possible.— Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
We made 5 kinds, hayseed, sweet firn, cornsilk, mullin leeves, and grape vine. my mouth taisted aufuly all nite.— The Real Diary of a Real Boy
Boss always thunders back, "Well, what the devil can a man do in a country where even cornsilk would be a blessing?"— The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919

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