They tremble like a cornstalk shaking in the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve] Reference

I settled quietly under my cornstalk hutch, much better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs of the Humpback Whale]

Southern cornstalk borer (Diatraea), Southwestern corn borer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

The harvest mouse sat on the top of a cornstalk and nibbled his supper.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Penfeld crept out from behind a cornstalk and gave the children a shy bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once An Angel]

           He bolted from a hiding place under the base of a cornstalk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash Before Your Eyes] Reference

To reach the top of a cornstalk from the ground took him just two seconds and a half.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Brother had a cornstalk and went and caught it afire, and he caught his little apron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Ila Hartsell Dodson, May 23, 1980. Interview H-0241. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Griffith stared at the object rising from the ground like a metal cornstalk behind Doc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sluggers: Magic in the Outfield] Reference

Mozambique Liberation Front's logo of a cornstalk and drum portrait adorned many T-shirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It is of much the same structure as the pith of cornstalk or elder, with which all are familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

The broom and dustpan were designer reproductions of the old tin and wood and cornstalk originals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sun from Under Water] Reference

= -- Chew a piece of sorghum cane, sugar cane, cornstalk, beet root, turnip root, apple or cabbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Book of Farming] Reference

Each woman carries the entire cornstalk, with the ears attached, just as it was pulled up by the roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of the Great Plains] Reference

He ran up the nearest cornstalk, as high as he could go, and watched the author of it pass beneath him.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Pearl millet also resists midges and the lesser cornstalk borer, two insects that severely affect sorghum.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types] Reference

The middle of it he can bend through half a circle, the last half-inch he can wrap completely round a cornstalk.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

The lesser cornstalk borer may bore into the stem just below the soil surface and move upwards and kill the plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

I thought the switch to no-till farming was stopping erosion, by letting the cornstalk roots hold on to the soil all winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Ethanol’s Influence on the Wane?] Reference

This triggered some outbreaks of lesser cornstalk borer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed] Reference

The cornstalk is not matured, nor the full grain shown in the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.] Reference

"My goodness me!" exclaimed the old rabbit, leaning on his cornstalk crutch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sammie and Susie Littletail] Reference

The hooks pierce the ends of the bit of cornstalk about which the cord is wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference

In this case, too, research shows that yields don't change with cornstalk grazing.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Plains Journal] Reference

Dodds also has concerns about cornstalk quality and leaf diseases in some of the corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.dailygate.com] Reference

Pikyás nyu-mu, the young cornstalk, who were the latest of the Water people, came in from the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

The shredder and husker turns the hitherto useless cornstalk into food, and at the same time husks, or shucks, the corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition] Reference