Just as they turned green-corn puddings into fritters and souffles, so they turned puddings and breads into spoonbreads. ❋ Bryanna Clark Grogan (2009)
Here they met to celebrate the green-corn dance and their other national ceremonials; and here the king and half-king and the princes and head-men of the various towns consulted together on important occasions, such as making peace or declaring war. ❋ Various (N/A)
But, excepting these vague hints, I could not find any bystander capable of giving me a further explanation of any point on which I inquired, than that it was 'an old custom;' or, if they wished to be more explicit, with a self-satisfied air, they would gravely remark that it was 'the green-corn dance,' -- which I knew as well as they. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was a little before sunset upon a pleasant day in the month of green-corn, that a young man riding upon a noble white horse was seen entering the great village of the Ottoes. ❋ James Athearn Jones (N/A)
In autumn, the best feed will be the grasses of the pastures, so far as they are available, green-corn fodder, cabbage, carrot, and turnip leaves, and an addition of meal or shorts. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)
Chili peppers or other pungent flavoring, and made up into slender rolls, each enveloped in green-corn leaves, tied at the ends, and baked in the ashes, -- resulting in a very savory article of food. ❋ Caroline C. Leighton (N/A)
Their green-corn dances, ball plays, war ceremonies, and manners and customs, are all fresh in my recollection. ❋ Benj. N. Martin (N/A)
Just how it works is not easy to say, -- it is in part perhaps a matter of feeding, -- but the great art-producing peoples have also been great agriculturists, much given to the joyous expression of their relation to the land they live in by green-corn dances, cherry-blossom fêtes, and processions to Pomona. ❋ Unknown (1915)
According to Haywood, who wrote in 1823 on information obtained directly from leading members of the tribe long before the Removal, the Cherokee formerly had a long migration legend, which was already lost, but which, within the memory of the mother of one informant -- say about 1750 -- was still recited by chosen orators on the occasion of the annual green-corn dance. ❋ O. M. McPherson (1915)
Thereupon some two hundred dozen ears of early green-corn were strewn along the flinty face of the highway, while Uncle Enoch was hurled, seat and all, accompanied by four dozen eggs and ten pounds of Aunt Henrietta's best butter, into the ditch. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)
I've had the toothache and mashed my big toe with a crow-bar and got around lively with a green-corn dance, but after it was over ❋ Unknown (1903)
From the labels we noticed on the can windrow along the road it seemed that peaches and Boston baked beans were the favorite things consumed by the overland travellers, though there were a great many green-corn, tomato, and salmon cans. ❋ Hayden Carruth (1897)
Then, while the gentlemen were playing tennis, the Princess took me to the kitchen-garden to show me the American green-corn, planted from seeds which we had given to her at Petit Val four years ago. ❋ Unknown (1886)
Oregon have their scalp dances, and green-corn dances, and war dances. ❋ Unknown (1867)
If the cows did come home hungry from their pasture, there was abundance of hay and green-corn fodder to carry them through until the skies should become more propitious. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
"So, I says, it will be Coney for Tuesday; and if the chutes and the short change and the green-corn silk between the teeth don't create diversions and get me feeling better, then I don't know at all. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
This tower was used as a council-house, and as a place for celebrating the green-corn dance and other national ceremonials. " ❋ Cyrus Thomas (1867)
Ezekiel: Brother Amos, our hard work has paid off, God has blessed us with fine weather and a [bountiful harvest] this year.
Amos: Word. I got a fat ([burlap]) sack full of [green corn], a new buggy, and the finest horse in all of Lancaster County! What more could a man want? ❋ Ironhouse (2012)
Person 1: Were you at [Jessie's house] last night?
Person 2: Yeah dude, I gave that bitch [the green] corn skeetaroni!
Person 1: Did you get any in her eye?
Person 2: [Fuck yeah] cuz, I hope it gets infected ❋ JasonSteelflex (2010)
