10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORN SHOCK»
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corn shock in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
corn shock and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shucks, Shocks, and Hominy Blocks:
Corn As a Way of Life in ...
Where once the overwhelming theme of the American landscape was timber,
through the nineteenth and early twentieth century in the fall and early winter it
was the corn shock. Why the sweeping success of the corn shock? There were
good ...
Nicholas P. Hardeman, 1999
... station accessible from good cover; ring-necked pheasants and bobwhites
feeding. (Minnesota Conservation Commission photograph.) Fromm-1 5.—\\'ell-
opened corn shock; prairie chickens feeding. (Wisconsin Conservation
Department.
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Nature Echo Series Book 2
You sit there, a corn shock With a pumpkin nesting in your parts. Is it only I who
can see the beckoning door To your internal space? Remembering the quick
scramble of a child To enter your secret place. Immune and safe from an angry
voice ...
Thelma Barlow Blaxall, 2013
4
Keystone Folklore Quarterly
He flipped about two wraps of his body around the corn shock and away he went
for the barn taking the corn shock with him. There aren't many people that could
understand snake talk ; there were only two that I know of. Old Eve was one and ...
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Stories from the Round Barn
For a week the sensation of the stranger under the corn shock dominates
township conversations — who he could be, where he came from, how he'd
gotten under there, how long he'd been there. The Beloit Daily News publishes
an initial ...
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson, 2000
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Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in ...
The farmers and the men from the sand pits blazed away at the corn shock,
peppering the faces of those inside with shot. Roeski, although suffering severe
pain from the wound in his leg, inflicted in his encounter with the police at the dug
-out, ...
Francis O'Neill, Ellen Skerrett, Mary Lesch, 2008
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History of Richardson County, Nebraska
He went over there. slid off his horse and was investigating the contents of the
smoke house when a big darkey woman appeared at the door. just as he had
taken down. what appeared to he a big corn shock. He had just made the
discorery ...
Corn-Shock Tightener Binding corn shocks is easily done with a simple device of
the kind shown in the drawing. It consists of a broom handle, Binding Com
Shocks Facilitated by Homemade , Tightener about 3 ft. long, and a length of
sash ...
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Underground Railroad In Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
The only possible place was in a corn shock standing in a field just a few
hundred yards from the road on which he was now traveling. Pennington hid in
the corn shock but quickly discovered that because of its size, he had to sit there
in a ...
By reflex action, I whipped around and shot into the corn shock. Then I ran across
the road and jumped into the canal. My shot hit a young German in the arm. He
got scared, dropped his rifle, and ran also. He wasn't chasing me—just running.
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CORN SHOCK»
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corn shock is used in the context of the following news items.
Corn Shocks- Then and Now
... composting and by adding them to our garden soil in the spring. The circle of life of a corn shock. Linking Blogs | Add to del.icio.us | Digg It ... «Penn State Master Gardeners, Oct 14»
The Centralia Massacre: A complete account
He crept in a corn shock on the farm of Mr. Cook, and was fed and helped by the latter on his way to liberty and life, and escaped. He made his ... «Columbia Daily Tribune, Sep 14»
Weather doesn't stop Osage's Autumn Artistry
Main Street was in all its fall glory with large pots of colorful mums, pumpkins big and small and the occasional corn shock wrapped around a ... «Mason City Globe Gazette, Sep 14»
Blackberry Moon to become the new Harvest Moon
The harvest moon is with us; and regardless of the calendar, the harvest moon is as autumnal as a corn shock. Given reasonably clear skies, ... «Springfield News Sun, Aug 13»
No water, no crops: how this year's North American drought will …
We will see how much money shoppers save from favouring cheap global foodstuffs when the grocery bills come in as the 'corn shock' does to ... «New Internationalist, Aug 12»
