corn-husks

A brown carpet of corn-husks led to the broken screen door, two steps, the dark kitchen walls, the warped wooden floors, the empty, shadowed nursery.

bard Diary Entry bard 2003

When I went to her once I found her in the middle of the room with two great tubs of water, her skirts all tied up to her knees, the floor swimming in water which she was flinging about with a handful of shucks _i.e. _, corn-husks!

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

Nothing common or unclean was visible, -- no heaps of fish-heads, served up on clam-shells, and garnished with bean-pods, potato-skins, and corn-husks; no pigs in sight, nor in the air, -- not even a cow to imperil the neatness of the place.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

Moreover, they were the main tunnel builders, and it was refreshing for a mouse, who had wormed his way through two yards of powdery corn-husks, to find a run where he could stretch his limbs and scamper.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

I have lain on beds of straw, of corn-husks, of palm-leaf, and of ox-hide.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

The bed-rack is made of iron or wood slats, and the bed-tick is filled with corn-husks; the pillow is also filled with the latter material, and when packed down becomes as hard as a board.

The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries John N. Reynolds

The army medical supplies had not yet arrived, the small stock of dressings was exhausted, and the surgeons were trying to make bandages of corn-husks.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

The air was warm and rich with laughter and pleasant nonsense, bandied from group to group amid the rustling of corn-husks and the dash of golden ears, as they fell upon the heap that swelled larger and larger with every passing minute.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

Old Juanita shelled her beans there, and threw the pods down on the tile floor, till towards night they were sometimes piled up high around her, like corn-husks at a husking.

Ramona 1921

"Is it on corn-husks you have been feeding your ewes that they look so sickly?" called one Mexican to another.

The Story of Wool Sara Ware Bassett 1920