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shocked corn
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I got to my feet and ran on and on, down through our fields of shocked corn, until I fell face down on the river’s bank.
Wilson Rawls. Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)
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the corn was still standing in the fields, so that his one hundred and sixty shocks that had not been carried were nothing in comparison with the losses of others.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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'When the corn is in the shock,' says our Cornish rhyme, 'Then the fish are off the rock'—and the rock's St. Michael's.
Grant Allen. Michael's Crag (1893)
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