Source: Water for Elephants
“It is a wive's occupation to wynowe all manner of cornes, to make malte, to washe and wrynge, to make heye, shere corne, and, in time of nede, to helpe her husbande to fyll the muckewayne or dounge carte, drive the ploughe, to loade heye, corne, and suche other. And to go or ride to the market, to sel butter, chese, mylke, egges, chekyns, capons, hennes, pygges, gese, and all manner of cornes.”
Source: The book of the husbandry. (1523/1882), p. 95-98: On the general duties of a wife.
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English judge, scholar and legal author 1470–1538Related quotes
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 46.
“Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
(1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, Second Day, Part ii. Compare: "Never thrust your own sickle into another’s corn", Publius Syrus, Maxim 593.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham
“So that's us: processed corn, walking.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.”
Adam Smith
(1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part III, (First Period) p. 223.