What is "cornstalks"

Usage examples of "cornstalks".

Although a blustery wind sent moon-silvered ripples across the ink-dark pond and rattled the nearby cornstalks, the sails were still.

Beyond the fence, dead cornstalks bristled as repulsively as the spiny legs and plated torsos of praying mantises.

The Rebels now saw that we were not to be run over like a field of cornstalks, and they fell back to devise further tactics, giving us a breathing spell to get ourselves in shape for defense.

Dry as the cornstalks burned by frost in the garden outside my cabin door.

When that whole sky wheeled and burst, the woods swept clean up the wagon road and the cornstalks glittering stalks unsheathed behind the rail fence, where the stupid face of that chapel stared down across that creek at the house with its windows blazing with the sun as though it were afire.

He stood there, looking toward town, looking toward the field across the road where ash-blond cornstalks stood unharvested, row upon row, in testament to the wet fall and early winter.