Citations:corn

English citations of corn

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1. (cereal):
   • 1623, William Shakespeare — As You Like It, Act V, Scene 3

     It was a lover and his lass, With a hey and a ho and a hey, nonny-no, That o’er the green corn field did pass, In spring time ....

   • 1611, King James Bible — Genesis 41:57

     And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

   • 1940, D.E. Richards, Fattening Lambs on Oregon Feedstuffs, p.17 [1]

     Barley is The corn of the West,” and is the standard feed grain.