What is "cornshuck"

Usage examples of "cornshuck".

To-night a cornshuck mattress, last night an open campfire, the night before that a soft mattress and clean sheets in the Webster house.

At times like this, with the comfort of the handmade quilt, the rough efficiency of the cornshuck mattress, the whisper of the wind along the shingled roof.

Later she would be pelted with vegetables and sticks, even with stones, but this lone farmer had been first, standing there with his handful of cornshucks, which he had tossed almost gently at her as she passed on her way to…well, on her way tocharyou tree, the Reap Fair of the Old People.

Rosalita had added her own present, a little stack of delicate cornshuck wraps she called “pulls.

The square of cornshuck fluttered to the porch a moment later, cut neatly in two.

You slept, if at all, on a cornshuck mattress that rustled louder than coal down a chute, in a room with a pitcher and bowl.

Then in English he added, "I see a cornshuck in your pocket, so you already stole your tamales for lunch.

I took my shoes off and stretched out, lying still to keep the cornshucks from rustling.

Atnight, alone with my cornshuck pillow and blanket there on that pallet, doubts nearly smother me.

In the fields, cornshucks flare like torches, and often stuffies bum with them, their red hands and white-cross eyes rippling in the heat.

Now these people pelted his love with cornshucks and vegetables as she stood, hands bound before her, in the back of Rhea's cart.