corn stack
Americannoun
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A few minutes after starting we met another of the akhardash, a very good fellow named Kasim, and conversed with him for a few minutes in the shade of a corn stack before proceeding.
From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.
I struck a young man the other day—a well-educated man by the look of him—who was spending the afternoon happily with a ferret by a corn stack, killing rats with a club.
From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold
To look for them will be worse than looking for spiders in a corn stack.
From The Rover Boys at School by Stratemeyer, Edward
I struck a young man the other day—a well-educated man by the looks of him—who was spending the afternoon happily with a ferret by a corn stack, killing rats with a club.
From Vane of the Timberlands by Bindloss, Harold
Just such an accident as folks hev as shoves a burning candle in a corn stack.
From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville
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