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Mr. Riesman's detailed biography should remind some of today's musical millionaires and their fans of the debt they owe to a player whose first instrument was a corn-stalk fiddle.

The Ghost in Rock 'n' Roll David Kirby 2011

I looked out the window at the silhouette of the old barn and the corn-stalk horizon.

The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

I looked out the window at the silhouette of the old barn and the corn-stalk horizon.

The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

All at once she came across the door of a field-mouse, who had a little hole under a corn-stalk.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

In the corn-stalk, when deprived of its ears, the elements of sugar are dissipated by increasing the size of the plant.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

In the garden, Nimble-toes showed them how to climb a corn-stalk, peel off the husks and nibble the sweet, white kernels.

The Graymouse Family Nellie Mabel Leonard

Don't let yo 'wooden God and corn-stalk Jesus fool you now.

De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston

So the American lad playing with a 'shoe-string bow' or a 'corn-stalk fiddle' would turn to

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

A princely Indian corn-stalk with rings in both his ears.

The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes Leroy F. Jackson

A good idea of this structure may be had by cutting across a corn-stalk, which is built on precisely the same pattern.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell