Lauren shook out her cornsilk hair and eyed me scornfully. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
The girls giggled and dared one another to touch his cornsilk hair. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
Some said it was his breath, others, the driven cornsilk of his hair. From Wordnik.com. [By Guess and by Gosh] Reference
Jason is 5-6, cornsilk thin, a jet-black thatch on his so-serious noggin. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened To ... the guy who saved Mike Wise and his dog?] Reference
Sylvia had said Koko's skin was as smooth as cornsilk, but it was as rough as sand. From Wordnik.com. [Raisins] Reference
She was nearly as tall as I was, with cornsilk hair and eyes the color of thunderstorms. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
Boss always thunders back, "Well, what the devil can a man do in a country where even cornsilk would be a blessing?". From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
Where I can, you know, peel potatoes in a grass skirt and roll around in fields of cornsilk to the tunes of Cat Stevens. From Wordnik.com. [Not Eating Out in New York » 2007 » July] Reference
Into your headlights a woman will rush, lofting a fan of dollar bills, her head shaved except for a few cornsilk strands. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
The American models on the beach, with their cornsilk hair and distorted breasts, looked more like prostitutes than she ever could. From Wordnik.com. [The Arab Bank] Reference
Curious, Jacquie separated it from the others and found hergelf looking at an enlarged photograph of a smiling young woman with short, cornsilk-colored hair Robbie's mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Fiddler]
If the problem involves too much water in the body, diuretic herbs such as dandelion, cleavers, pipsissewa, buchu, fresh cornsilk, barberry, and juniper berries should help. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
If you've ever tried to destruct a dandelion plant while doing said lawn chores, you may have noticed that its roots are incredibly thin and plentiful, like a jumble of cornsilk. From Wordnik.com. [Cathy Erway: A Green Green That's Good for You and Your Wallet, Too] Reference
Looking at Paul D's back, she remembered that some of the corn stalks broke, folded down over Halle's back, and among the things her fingers clutched were husk and cornsilk hair. From Wordnik.com. [Beloved]
By this time Peggs had finished the uniform for Jackie's soldier and a hat of newspaper with a great plume of cornsilk and a lot of medals which were cut from the gold leaf that comes on a card of buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover] Reference
And she was a little old lady who was about as white as people get to be — blue eyes and hair like cornsilk — and they married her to the man they selected for her, who obviously must have been African, rather than the man she wanted to marry. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with William and Josephine Clement, June 19, 1986. Interview C-0031. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Her hair had returned to the fine cornsilk I remembered from those days, and she was wearing a sailor-blouse with blue curlicue stitching around the collar that I had reason to remember very well: she'd been wearing it one Sunday when she'd fallen out of the apple tree in our back yard and broken her arm. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
He pulled a little handful of cornsilk out of the top of an ear of corn and played with it. From Wordnik.com. [Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories] Reference
"We will use some cornsilk for hair, and some little stones for the eyes, nose and mouth, and for dresses ----". From Wordnik.com. [Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories] Reference
We made 5 kinds, hayseed, sweet firn, cornsilk, mullin leeves, and grape vine. my mouth taisted aufuly all nite. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Diary of a Real Boy] Reference
Jimmy stolidly brought up the rear with small Sue clinging loyally to his dirty little paddie, which she only let go to run and bury her cornsilk topknot in. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart's Kingdom] Reference
So Gillibloom lay down on a very soft couch that was perhaps rose-leaves and perhaps thistledown and perhaps cornsilk, and when he had lain there a day and a night, the Earth-Woman stretched his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs] Reference
It’s pretty much back to its original cornsilk blond, a color I haven’t seen for almost three years. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetblood] Reference
Tearing a pile of long, stemless leaves clumped up together feels like you’re pulling apart a single strand of cornsilk. From Wordnik.com. [Steamed Five-Spice Calamari & Water Spinach Salad] Reference
She didn't mention cornsilk, though. From Wordnik.com. [What is "negro ponch?" (a black punch at a Posada)] Reference
But slightly less flesh-toned and more cornsilk. From Wordnik.com. [Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Stories: The Cheapskate] Reference
Are there so many cornsilk heads around here?. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference
Sweater: VneckSWEATER MAN / cornsilk. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion World of SL] Reference
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