corn shock

As fall progressed, pumpkins, chrysanthemums and corn shocks appeared.

"You'll recognize it by the corn shocks.

In coming to a landing, it knocked down and scattered a corn shock and smashed three pumpkins.

Hal didn't wait for an answer but sprang to his feet and began to walk back and forth between the corn shocks.

They were either asleep somewhere or out exploring for a coon or maybe nosing out the mice from among the corn shocks.

"Combing Iowa, corn shock by corn shock, does not appeal to me."

All my little friends were gathered in my dank cellar surrounded by corn shocks (and muffin cups full of candy corn).

Among the other gems transcending politics is the circa 1848 watercolor, "Harvest Field near Pevensey, Sussex," in which corn shocks seem to be marching as to war.

There was no sign of Courier when I returned to the stockade that evening, through pumpkin fields, with the late red sun throwing long shadows of corn shocks where they stood in bundles.

Devens found no camp, since an earlier patrol apparently confused corn shocks as tents in the evening shadows; he halted and asked Stone for instructions, who responded to push closer to Leesburg.

Gathering up baby Fred, she realized she could not escape while carrying him, so she hid her baby in a stack of green corn shocks, running fast and deceptively to evade the Sioux war party.

Some of her romantic views of the Southern countryside, for instance fields of corn shocks and fences, and several stark, post-blizzard New England scenes are also included, but the best of her work is that dealing with people, and this show doesn't stint.

There they stood in the big empty field with the quiet corn shocks stand- ing in rows behind them and the red and yellow hills in the distance, and from being just two indif- ferent workmen they had become all alive to each other.

Bowser, full of many years, had walked heavily and sedately beside him as they'd gone down across the land, while Rover, the foolish pup, had treed an early-foraging squirrel in the walnut grove and had flushed a covey of quail out of the corn shocks and pumpkins of an autumn field.