Corncob plant

Usage examples of maize.

Heng, Deliana, sexual assault and murder of, 43, 125, Hester, Maize D 156 Hill, Mike, 314, 316, 322-25 Hillside Strangler, 65 Hinckley case, 278 Hitchcock, Alfred, 26 Holton, Tim, 256, 259, 266 homicidal triad, 23 homicide: assassination-style, 33, 34 classification of, 342 lust, 9, 240-42 stranger vs.

Wheat, maize, beans, peppers, and squash were raised near the river, maguey for pulque, and indio products grew in the more arid areas.

She had last seen Melia three months ago, when Tom had taken her with him to deliver their small harvest of maize and barley to the main government store, and the time had been all too short-much of it spent, of necessity, in loading the seed and tools they were to take back with them.

Fat Legs had with him about forty of the proudest warriors of his own town, and several women came carrying bags of maize and bundles of fine furs and some parfleche bags containing pipe-smoking mixtures, decorated feathers, strings of the beautiful blue beads the Children of First Man still knew how to make after hundreds of years, and quantities of clay-dye powders.

In the study of a single character, the endosperm of maize, nearly 100,000 pedigreed seeds have been examined by different students.

Breakfast was a stew of kapenta, the fingerling dried fish he thought of as African whitebait, and a porridge of maize meal.

She watched with an awful fascination as the stiff maize porridge was scooped from the communal pot in the center of the table by many hands, molded into balls between the fingers and then dipped into buffalo-meat gravy.

In the last of the daylight, they ate the meal of maize porridge and Sean studied his field map and marked in his dead-reckoning position.

They ate the last handfuls of hot sticky salted maize porridge on the march and washed it down with water from the bottles that tasted of mud and algae.

Maize, tobacco, quinoa, and the mandico plants have been cultivated so long that their wild originals have quite disappeared.

Certain gods in this section which relates to the planting of maize are shown as being attacked by vultures and blow-flies.

The only thing that moved was an orangish cat that jumped off a woodpile and into the green stalks of maize nearest the shuttered cot.

In the meanwhile he gave orders for so much rice and maize to be collected thereabouts as was necessary for the victualling all his ships.

The wardress deliberately stepped onto the white maize cake, smearing it into the dirt.

They carried gifts to the temple: baskets filled with maize, pots of freshly brewed balche, woven cloth, cured deer skins.