...More than half the street, at the proper season, is covered with coffee yet in the husk...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...When itis time to husk the corn, every farmer's boy must have seen a shrikesitting on a fence-rail or hovering in the air ready to seize thelittle meadow mice that escape from the shocks...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...The husk, or involucre, differs greatly, being extremely short in Barr's Spanish, and extremely long in filberts, in which it is contracted so as to prevent the nut falling out...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...This kind of husk also protects the nut from birds, for titmice (Parus) have been observed to pass over filberts, and attack cobs and common nuts growing in the same orchard...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...In India barley usually runs very light, there being a greatdeal of husk...
Joshua A. Nunn 「Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies」
...The husk should be well filled out, and have ashining, pearl-like, glistening appearance, and when let fall on a stoneor other hard substance give off a metallic sound...
Joshua A. Nunn 「Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies」
...Then, bracing its legs firmly on the edges of the shell, itlifted its tail quite clear, and crawled up the weed a perfectdragon-fly, forgetful of that grim husk it was leaving behind...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...They broke the coconut shell, killed the rooster, and took his feathers to putin the coconut husk, and they broke the coconut meat...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...A shell, like the dried husk of some creature long dead!—yet here wassomething alive, as its quick attack proved...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Brood of the Dark Moon」
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