corn factor

How to use corn factor in a sentence

• If he has to pay the landlord according to a high average, and to be paid by the corn-factor according to a low one, he is undone.

  Leading Articles on Various Subjects | Hugh Miller

• When, after a sleepless night on the stove, he betook himself to the corn-factor's house, he found it barred and shuttered.

  Ghetto Comedies | Israel Zangwill

• As it was, the corn-factor's stick cut like a razor through the air, and made a most musical whirr within a foot of the Jew's ear.

  It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles Reade

• To the shaft of each hung a little board, on which was painted in white letters, "Henchard, corn-factor and hay-merchant."

  The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy

• Donald's brightness of intellect maintained in the corn-factor the admiration it had won at the first hour of their meeting.

  The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy