cornshucks

In the fields, cornshucks flare like torches, and often stuffies bum with them, their red hands and white-cross eyes rippling in the heat.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

The cornshucks blazed up at once, dazzling Susan with yellow light.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Now these people pelted his love with cornshucks and vegetables as she stood, hands bound before her, in the back of Rhea's cart.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Until they came upon him, nothing was clear; after he hurled his bundle of cornshucks at her as she passed, standing in the slowly rolling cart with her hands bound in front of her and her head lowered and a rope around her neck, everything was clear.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Nothing was clear to Susan until she saw the man with the long red hair and the straw hat which did not quite obscure his lamb-slaughterer's eyes; the man with the cornshucks in his hands.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

It was she who first flung her torch into the cornshucks which were piled as high as Susan's knees; Rhea flung hers a bare second later.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Women came and piled dry cornshucks around her feet.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Perhaps Lorena was just bouncing on the cornshucks for the sake of bouncing.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

It had been breathing, but body was the right word just the same; it had only been a worthless thing, like a cast-off towsack which some idiot had stuffed full of weeds or cornshucks.

The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

Perhaps Lorena was just bouncing on the cornshucks for the sake of bouncing.

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985