husk

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• The adventurers’ tent had been sliced open from the inside, and in its husk lay rucksacks, neatly arranged boots, and a plate of sliced pork fat.

• Lard-rich tamales are a pandemic-ready project, well worth the time it takes to swaddle dough into corn husk wrappers.

• Then from there, they get trucked to the huller, which removes the green husk off of the nuts that still have it on—30 or 40% of them—and cleans them and washes them.

• There’s a husk that peels off, revealing a nut shell underneath.

• Remove the garlic cloves from the pot, squeeze them out of their husks and spread the garlic puree on toasted baguette.

• Still, the exposed skin on my face and hands felt drawn and hot, stinging, a fire of whiteness, a burning Caucasian husk.

• The crab begins by tearing the husk, fiber by fiber, and always from that end under which the three eye-holes are situated.

• Dumas states that the husk of oats sometimes yields as much as five or six per cent.

• The house, the bit of the world it gave upon, seemed a part of her life, the containing husk of all the fruitage born to her.

• He broke off the branch, and with the sharp point he soon had torn a hole in the outer husk of the cocoanut.

• The dried husk of the maiz is taken and cut into pieces of the required size.