Looking for sentences and phrases with the word mealies? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
However, during the rainy season some people plant pumpkins, mealies, green beans and spinach.
There were seven patches of bared, cultivated soil, where the new mealies were just showing, making a film of bright green over the rich dark red, and around each patch now drifted up thick clouds of smoke.
The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross or some pieces of cotton cloth.
Examples from Classical Literature
But this year there were scarcely any mealies, and what there were had been badly spoilt by the enemy.
Now, tell Jack he must go back at once, as soon as he has had some mealies.
In the mealie gardens I stopped awhile, for I was very hungry, and filled myself with the half-ripe mealies.
Towards the afternoon we heard voices, and, looking through the stems of the mealies, we saw a party of my father's men pass searching for us.
There were no mealies whatever, except what was standing in the fields.
With regard to provisions, the supply of mealies was almost exhausted.
For a pinch of mealies I'd have let the little shrew go, by thunder!
We got away with these loads of mealies, but it will be known to-morrow.
Barrels of mealies or Indian corn, and wheaten flour, besides.
In contrast, South Africa was suffering from the high cost of mealies, which is a primary stable of the South African diet.
Presently we heard a shouting outside, and stepping to the door, saw a line of damsels bearing milk and roasted mealies, and honey in a pot.
We ground our mealies in coffee mills if no other mills were available.
I rushed at her howling like a wolf, and I snatched the mealies from her head and the kid from her hand.
He has been literally and metaphorically planting maize for mealies while his adversaries criss-cross the country.
Among the broken mealies we found the body of a very old man, as full of assegai wounds as a porcupine with quills.
They eat two meals a day of a vegetable paste, called mealies.
In August, pumpkins, green mealies, vegetables and rice were planted.
