His intellect was acute enough to suggest that in the complete Shucking off of illusions lay his greatest peril.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
It seemed but a minute before the quiet old plantation, in which the harvest, the corn-Shucking, and the Christmas holidays alone marked the passage of the quiet seasons, and where a strange carriage or a single horseman coming down the big road was an event in life, was turned into a depot of war-supplies, and the neighborhood became a parade-ground.
"The Burial of the Guns"
Thomas Nelson Page
Petunia was already elbow deep in a cedar tub of corn meal for the pones, and another minion was Shucking late roasting-ears and washing the sweet potatoes to be packed down with the meat by eight o-clock.
"The Tinder-Box"
Maria Thompson Daviess