What is "husks"

Usage examples of "husks".

A ritual that had left themin the eyes of all othersas little more than husks, animated by a purpose they had set outside themselves, yet were chained tofor eternity.

Autumn Changed the long, green leaves to yellow, And the soft and juicy kernels Grew like wampum hard and yellow, Then the ripened ears he gathered, Stripped the withered husks from off them, As he once had stripped the wrestler, Gave the first Feast of Mondamin, And made known unto the people This new gift of the Great Spirit.

Autumn Stripped the yellow husks of harvest, Stripped the garments from Mondamin, Even as Hiawatha taught them.

There were husks on the stairs, all dressed in faded Savoy livery, and it was over one of these uniformed corpses that I tripped, bringing both Cissie and Stem down with me.

From the rafters hung corn by braided husks, squashes strung together like outlandish necklaces, wild onions, apples, and great bundles of dried greenery and herbs Elizabeth could not begin to name.

Falling-Day was predicting a hard winter from the way the corn husks had grown in a tight swirl, and the thickness of the muskrat shelters.

The corn husks in the mattress crackled as he moved closer to put his face to the slope of her shoulder where it met her neck, in that perfect curve that was now his solitary focus in the world.

Another small stone appeared, and another-they turned out to be the tough husks of a desert plant.

Though Lando had never seen this particular weapon, he felt sure the husks contained some unpleasant surprise.

When gravity was restored, the remaining husks dropped to the floor and destroyed a five-meter section of service corridor.

Anor and his followers were making their way toward the center of the basal-comb, where a huge sweep of cells contained either shriveled husks or nothing at all.