Other dances show the husking of rice and a harvest, she said.

When the half-witted old man left his husking of corn and came into the wood to meet Elmer Cowley, he was neither surprised nor especially interested in the sudden appearance of the young man.

The sections of the exhibit dealing with this period include some accomplished paintings, like William's portrait of his mother, Julia Ann Hawkins, and his "Long Island Farmer Husking Corn" (1833-34).

As Mount gained in technical skill and sophistication, his portraits and studies of rural life achieved a rare balance of human interest and sensitivity to the individuals he depicted, as in "Long Island Farmer Husking Corn" and "California News."

And the merry Laughing Water Went rejoicing from the wigwam, With Nokomis, old and wrinkled, And they called the women round them, Called the young men and the maidens, To the harvest of the cornfields, To the husking of the maize-ear.

An interesting pairing of William Sidney Mount's "Long Island Farmer Husking Corn" (1834) and Luigi Lucioni's "Laurelton Hall" (the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate, painted in 1927) on an entrance wall points to changing social messages over a 100-year span.

And so Conan spent many hours in the hauling of stools and trestles up and down stairs, unfurling and beating the dust out of tapestries heavy with gold threads, and performing other tasks less fitted to his size and dignity, such as the polishing of chamber pots and the husking of vegetables.

"Your father was right after all about my need for rest," he husked.

I husked, trying to put some strength and conviction into my voice.

He husked at last, "I'm not sure, even yet, what it is you want of me!"

I husked, my voice producing itself without benefit of mind to direct it.

Even this present fall (1823) I have husked my corn and backed it into the house.

Hal began husking, moving rapidly, unwilling to stay longer than he had to.

The lady turned to husking her husband so efficiently that Rod knew she had done it many times before.

"You do me great honor," she said, voice husking and solemn.

"Come here and find out," she husked in turn.

He was whispering something, or husking it with what remained of his lungs.

"Yes, and pray that you get the same," he husked.

"Get out of here," his father husked and dismissed him from his attention.

I Husked Cary as we came to a stop in front of the house.

They inquired from a man husking coconuts by the side of the lake.

His voice husked to nothing, and he swallowed and was silent for a moment.

"That remains to be seen," husked the old woman.

"It's too bright," the woman complained, her voice husked and raw.

You have to take what you want in this world,' he husked, his eyes reducing her to weakness.

"Get the hell away from me," he husked softly.

"I'd better tell you the whole truth," he husked.

Then the stream of energy filled him completely and husked him out clean.

I weep with you," he husked, and stepped away from the podium.

Then the books were picked and husked and were ready to read.

One day, within the first month of her pregnancy, she was husking paddy in the stone mortar.

He stepped up to it hesitantly and husked a few words in a rough melody.