 | Samuel Kercheval - Indian captivities - 1833 - 504 pages
...necessity of doing every thing for themselves as well as they could. The hommony blocks and hand mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made...narrow at the bottom, so that the action of the pestle oil the bottom threw the corn up to the sides towards the top of it, from whence it continually fell... | |
 | Samuel Kercheval, Charles James Faulkner - Indian captivities - 1833 - 452 pages
...doing every thing for themselves as well as they could. The hommony blocks and hand mills were in uso in most of our houses. The first was made of a large...the bottom, so that the action of the pestle on the bottom threw the corn up to the sides towards the top of it, from whence it continually fell down into... | |
 | 1836 - 708 pages
...necessity of doing every thing for themselves as well as they could. The homony-block and hand-mills were in use, in most of our houses. The first was...the bottom; so that the action of the pestle on the bottom, threw the corn up to the sides toward the top of it, from whence it continually fell down to... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1836 - 740 pages
...necessity of doing every thing for themselves as well as they could. The homony-block and hand-mills were in use, in most of our houses. The first was...an excavation burned in one end, wide at the top, ana narrow at the bottom; so that the action of the pestle on the bottom, threw the corn up to the... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...necessity of doing every thing for themselves as well as they could. The hommony block and hand-mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made...the bottom, so that the action of the pestle on the bottom threw the corn up to the sides towards the top of it, from whence it continually fell down into... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...necessity of doing every thing for themselves as well as they could. The hommony-block and hand-mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made...the bottom, so that the action of the pestle on the bottom threw the corn up to the sides towards the top of it, from whence it continually fell down into... | |
 | Samuel Kercheval - Indian captivities - 1850 - 360 pages
...necessity- of doing every thing for themselves as well as they could. The hommony blocks and hand mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made...the ^bottom, so that the action of the pestle on the bottom threw the corn up to the sides towards the top of it, from whence it continually fell down into... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...necessity of doing everj thing for themselves as well as they could. The hommony-block and hand-mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made...one end, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, BO that the action of the pestle on the bottom threw the corn up to the (ides towards the top of it,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 908 pages
...necessity of doing everything for themselves, as well as they could. The hominy block and hand-mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made...the bottom, so that the action of the pestle on the bottom, threw the corn up the sides toward the top of it, from whence it continually fell down into... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...necessity of doing every thing for themselves, as well as they could. The hominy block, and hand mills, were in use in most of our houses. The first was made of a large Mock of wood about three feet long, with an excavation burned in one end, wide at the top, and narrow... | |
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The hominy block and hand mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made of a large block of wood about three feet long, with an excavation burned in one end, wide at the top, and narrow at the bottom, so that the action of the pestle on... 
