How To Use Cornish In A Sentence

She won a hamper including organic porridge, Cornish strawberry conserve and Gloucester Old Spot Bacon.
The soft cheese, which is smoked over Cornish fruitwoods, is made at the company's smokehouse by the River Fal.
Through his open window came the faint, distant beating of the sea; a bird flew past him, a white flash of light; some one was singing the refrain of a Cornish "chanty" -- the swing of the tune came up to him from the garden, and some of the words beat like little bells upon his brain, calling up endless memories of his boyhood. The Wooden Horse
An 1840 Cornish beam engine remains at the Levant mine, and is preserved by the National Trust.
The departure of these squadrons brings the number of servicemen and women, aircrew and engineers deployed so far from the Cornish air station to more than 150.

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Five picturesque Cornish villages are calling for a ban on new-build houses being sold as second homes. Times, Sunday Times
Tony even struggles out of bed at 4am most days to buy turbot, squid and lobster from Cornish day boats on the harbour.
There will also be stalls, sideshows, fairground rides, new and vintage car shows and helicopter and balloon trips, and the Cornish Pavilion will showcase products from the county.
I believe the whole compound is the Cornish _Pen y cwm gwic_, ‘Head of the creek valley.’ Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
They belong to the Goidelic or Q-Celtic branch of Celtic languages, AFAIK, and Welsh, Breton, and Cornish are Brythonic or P-Celtic. Languagehat.com: TALKIN' CAPE BRETON.
An entire Cornish hen baked in a red curry and served in a basket, it was served with a side of sautéed chayote (a green squash) and a small dish of kecap lombok, which may be one of my favourite things in the world.
I was surprised to read that one of those soft-hearted Cornish fisherman had put a lobster back in the sea after catching it in one of his pots, because he thought it looked tired and deserved a break.
But unemployed Cornish man Marco Fella ,38, has used his apparent chocoholism to excuse him biting his girlfriend on the finger - because she preferred wearing what he described as IOL: News
The creature, three times the size of an average British edible oyster, was discovered in the bottom of a box of fish bought by a Cornish fishmonger, Peter Randall.
An annotated bibliography of his writings on Cornish folklore is also presented.
A ten-year boom brought diggers back across the Pacific from the declining California field, as well as from Britain, where Cornish tin-mining was declining.
Joe Cornish is a friend of Edgar Wright, so this could be extremely interesting. Attack the Block Roundup, Including Detailed Synopsis and Sales Art | /Film
Cornish pasties and Lancashire faggots are among the culinary terms defined between the covers of the top dictionary.
Pan-fried fillet of Cornish red mullet, salted cod brandade and bouillabaisse jus, caramelised raspberry and Tahiti vanilla millefeuille are flavour bursts that I hope never to forget.
Huge archaeological potential is the presence of native pottery, Cornish gabbroic coarseware. Beach Party A.D. 503
With blackcurrants and blackberries in a crumble laced with custard served out of my big Cornish Blue jug.
At Albany, Cornish is delineating the physical characteristics of sunflower candidates' latex and comparing them to those of latex taken from two other natural sources - the Brazilian rubber tree and a desert shrub, guayule.
A Cornish Coastal Footpath has been opened to give the public access to walk along the cliffs.
Picture the scene: the late afternoon sun is burnishing the craggy Cornish cliffs.
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” from a screenplay by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, is produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, is the first in the series of 3D motion capture films based on the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name “Herge” and is due for release in 2011. Release Dates: Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin and Zemeckis’ Mars Needs Moms! | /Film
Ditto the very good Cornish hen, which is similarly transformed by being deboned, cooked in a densely flavored turmeric emulsion, and dusted with a coating of crisped shallots.
Cornishmen 'blue elvan:' this diorite, composed of felspar and the hardest hornblende, contains granular iron and pyrites like silver. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
Co'rn'all, the finest country in all England, and ain't you going to grow into a Cornishman, as all old books says is giants, when you've left off being a poor smooth, soft-roed, gallish-looking creatur ', same as you are now? Menhardoc
The cheeseboard offers a good selection of locally produced cheeses such as applewood smoked cheese and the wonderfully named Cornish Yarg.
I think I have," said the "geographer," ashamed of being thought ignorant, "Silas, was'nt he a Cornish man? Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
You can also find everything you need for rockeries, natural stone features and paving - including Kent rag, fissured limestone, green/pink granite and Cornish rustic slate.
I was going to say something about the politics of orthography development and use Serbian vs Croatian, the four competing Cornish orthographies, etc but I guess I have a new example. Languagehat.com: SCRIPT REFORM THROUGH ARSON.
One of his papers was on the health of Cornish tin and copper miners, including studies of their working conditions and the stethoscopic signs of pulmonary tuberculosis. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
She was the queen that slumbers somewhere in every Cornish imagination, the queen ungrudged. Kangaroo
It was a lovely damp grey Cornish morning, lovely if you don't mind rain, which I don't.
As every true Cornishman knows, it was the wicked Tregeagle who was supposedly punished with this thankless task.
The rebel Cornishmen, joined by sympathetic Devonians, marched on Exeter and laid siege to the City.
Once, beside the foot of the cross which stood in Sancreed [Footnote: This fine sculptured cross has since these events been placed within the said churchyard, at the desire of Mr.A. G. Langdon, the greatest living authority on the subject of Cornish remains.] churchyard wall, between two tree-trunks under a dome of leaves, the girl found growing a spotted persicaria, and the force of the discovery at such a spot was great to her. Lying Prophets
_Cowz_ is meant for _coz_, the modern Cornish and Armorican form corresponding to the ancient Cornish _coth_, old. ( Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
Nearer Wales, Robert Williams compiled the first comprehensive dictionary of the Cornish language, and Bishop John Phillips translated the Book of Common Prayer into Manx.
The 3pm show takes in sea-shanties, Cornish dances, North Country tunes and an Orkney wedding.
Here it is possible to find Cornish heath, mesembryanthemums, butchers broom, early meadow grass and a plethora of clovers including the large lizard clover, brookweed, yellow wallpepper and many more.
Richard, who comes from a Cornish farming family, qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and has experience in property and lettings, farm restructuring and commercial contracts.
Waiting on the river in Dawson was a Cornishman, Dorian Amos. Ten years ago, he and his wife, Bridget, a Canadian, chose the Yukon as home.
Pengwinion, you Cornish chough, has this good wind blown you north? — Redgauntlet
He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines.
It's oh so basic in its set-up and story-telling - and yet writer-director Joe Cornish makes the absolute most out of its goosy energy and gruesome effects. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Attack the Block
An empty smoker in the Cornish express -- _empty_ except for me! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920
Order a cortado (an espresso with a dash of milk) and a plate of empanadas (like mini Cornish pasties) and soak up the history.
The roof of Cornish slate was similarly recreated using old slate found in the garden foe matching purposes; the balustrade and balusters were also beautifully reconstructed.
Close to two typical Cornish settlements enclosed by ditches and banks known as ‘rounds’, this one was apparently undefended.
Six people were rescued by helicopter from a fishing boat in distress off the Cornish coast.
Kaolin is the very same with the clay called in Cornwall [Transcriber's note: word missing] and the petuntse is a granite similar to the Cornish moorstone. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
The action takes place against a bank of shingle, representing a Cornish beach, and the design is almost monochrome - perhaps seeking to evoke the success of the movie.
I was surprised to read that one of those soft-hearted Cornish fisherman had put a lobster back in the sea after catching it in one of his pots, because he thought it looked tired and deserved a break.
The fish fondue is typical of the innovative cuisine on offer here from Cornish chef Nick Hodges.
In the eighteen enormous folio volumes, which he filled with his minute and gothic characters, he gives his own version of the story of what he terms his downfall, and, having, notwithstanding his prolixity, exhausted this subject in the first five of the eighteen tomes, he proceeds to deal with so much of the history of his own day as came immediately under his notice in his Cornish retirement. The Sea-Hawk
Spiky tyke Alistair Griffin may have been outshone by a certain Cornish pixie (or pisky, if you're local) with a mooey voice on Fame Academy, going by the name of Alex Parks.
There was the whole town of Ohadi to testify that the highwayman was a big man, of the build of Harry, and that he spoke with a Cornish accent. The Cross-Cut
A wrasse is a sea fish found around the British coasts; the English name may have come from Cornish rather than Welsh.
Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships.
The free-range chickens, a cross between the Cornish White and the Rhode Island Red, have conservatories and sand pits, and an animal behaviourist is consulted to make sure that the birds are happy and healthy.
Initially this came from Cornish mine-owners, but extended to paper, flour, cotton and iron mills, as well as distilleries, canals and waterworks.
Six people were rescued by helicopter from a fishing boat in distress off the Cornish coast.
He raised a fine regiment of foot soldiers from his hardy Cornish tenantry.
A bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, Gundry published Songs and dances of Cornwall in 1966, and used Cornish subjects, and folk-song material, in his operas The tinners of Cornwall and the comic opera The logan rock.
Even the Duchy quarterly The Cornish Banner received the book enthusiastically.
Six people were rescued by helicopter from a fishing boat in distress off the Cornish coast.
Five picturesque Cornish villages are calling for a ban on new-build houses being sold as second homes. Times, Sunday Times
The conservative Cornish, who had not forgotten their previous grievances, had a deep affection for the Latin Liturgy.
The bridie looks something like a Cornish pasty which has been put on its side.
He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines.
The park takes advantage of those famous Cornish waves and has a surf and paddle board school. The Sun
A pleasing confederation of curves, the Cornish rex has a long, graceful neck that leads to a comparatively small, narrow, somewhat egg-shaped head.
My husband doesn't like cornish game hens - too "gamey" for him he's not crazy about lamb either - but I'll try this for myself sometime. Sweet & Spicy Cherry Glazed Game Hens over Wild Rice
CORNISH - The former wife of the man who called himself Clark Rockefeller has offered to give a historic church back to Cornish. UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports
Cornish again buries a likable protagonist and perfectly viable plot under a mountain of obscure words and pretentious prose in this overweight sequel. Lamplighter by D. M. Cornish: Book summary
The next two cases (21, 22) are devoted to the varieties of common quartz, including the flexible sandstones of Brazil (of which there are some larger specimens upon a separate table) and to those of the east; milk quartz; the Salzburg blue quartz, &c.; some varieties of the cat's eye; hornstones, including wood changed into hornstone: and herein begin the flints, including some specimens changing into calcedony, smalt blue calcedony from Transylvania; the Icelandic stalactical calcedony; and the fine Cornish calcedony. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
The PM delivered on his promise to choose a Cornish moniker. The Sun
It carries me back to Cornish holidays in childhood; it always felt slightly autumnal there, even in high summer there was that yellow intensity to the sun and that sharp odour in the air, and the heavy, heavy dewfall each night. Daydreaming...
Ben Whishaw in “Bright Star” - Abbie Cornish is getting lots of (much-deserved) attention, but Whishaw should get just as much for bringing a beautiful excitement to his Keats. 'Zombieland' tops our Must List. Tell us what's on yours! | EW.com
If you like seafood, go for the Baked pomfret with gooseberry sauce, or the Cornish buttered lobster, a simple recipe that brings out the full flavour of the lobster.
Callison went to the grocery store, where she bought Cornish game hens to serve, instead of her 21-pound Butterball.
Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships.
Number one in the list is the Cornish hamlet of Cocks, which has resisted attempts by a prudish local authority to respell it Cox.
Henceforward the Devonshire miners were separated from the Cornish, and held stannary parliaments on the top of Crockern Tor. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
The park takes advantage of those famous Cornish waves and has a surf and paddle board school. The Sun
As for the books, I didn't read them until i was 50, and they thrilled me and chilled me and wrapped me in Cornish fogs, Welsh mists, and always a great sense of place. As Claire originally began her review, WTF?
With blackcurrants and blackberries in a crumble laced with custard served out of my big Cornish Blue jug.
When they first glimpsed Carmel, it reminded them of the Cornish coast (back then the area was treeless, still largely houseless, and windswept).
The treatments at the Ocean Breeze health suite are exceptional, combined with the unrushed Cornish attitude.
My samosa was a monster - it looked more like a Cornish pastie than the small crispy triangles you usually get - and was stuffed with vegetables.
I had dressed Cornish crab which was absolutely delicious and not too rich as crab can sometimes be.
Four months later, Cornish echoed the sentiment in a letter to Stewart.
Hoskin was a case in point: he had left the tiny Cornish village of Maudlin, near Bodmin, where he had grown up, and was thrilled to have his own bedsit in the market town of St Austell, where he made his new "friends". 'Mate crime' fears for people with learning disabilities
Opt for simple comforting English fare like fish-finger sarnies with ketchup, or Cornish pasties and sausage and mash.
Non-Cornish makers of "Cornish" pasties wish the same decision had been made about their product, which will now have to drop the word "Cornish" or be in breach of place-of-origin food rules introduced in 1992. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The park takes advantage of those famous Cornish waves and has a surf and paddle board school. The Sun
The body of trawlerman Neil Murray, 57, was found onboard his boat off the Cornish coast when he failed to return to Looe Harbour after a day out alone at sea on Thursday. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
In guidelines which stated that minced or diced beef, sliced potato, onion and swede were the only ingredients permitted in the traditional snack, officials were forced to allow the word "turnip" in ingredient lists - though not in the pasties themselves - because the Cornish confusingly use the word to refer to Swedes. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure. Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle.
Although Tim, 38, won't be joining them, the party will then board a Cornish shrimper to return along the west coast to Dalen.
There was a kind of gamecock called Cornish Game that was fairly manshaped. Operation: Outer Space
According to one account, the Cornishmen felt that the affairs of the North were too remote to interest them.
Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure. Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
When Ali let herself into the house well after four on Friday afternoon, the aroma of baking scones reminded her that this was Friday, and Sister Anselm was expected around five for what Leland liked to call his Cornish cream tea. Fatal Error
✒Bob Lindo, the RAF squadron leader turned Cornish wine maker, agrees about the feeble six-plane flypast at the royal wedding. Scottish independence is a win-win situation | Simon Hoggart
Cornishmen of a different stamp emerged: John Opie, the precocious portraitist and art theoretician, Richard Trevithick, wrestler and inventor of high-pressure steam traction, Humphry Davy, perfecter of the miner's safety lamp.
He has long yearned the quiet life of a country squire in a little Cornish style farm in Sussex where he could raise bees.
Cornish Rebel made a successful start to his chasing career with victory in a novice chase at Lingfield.
Hear a Yorkshireman , or worse hear a Cornishman converse, I'd rather hear choir singing flat, chickens cackling in a barn just like this tone...
It's hard not to feel smug pleasure on hearing that Cornish authorities went so overboard on black propaganda about eclipse chaos that some now regret scaring off any possible lucrative visitors.
Opt for simple comforting English fare like fish-finger sarnies with ketchup, or Cornish pasties and sausage and mash.
There's apparently a Cornish hip-hop crew who rap about tractors, although that could just be my mate winding me up.
The conservative Cornish, who had not forgotten their previous grievances, had a deep affection for the Latin Liturgy.
It is to be hoped the happy event will rival the Hallowe'en nuptials of that gloriously tressed couple Belinda Cornish and Mark Meer.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen abandons the swags and tie-backs in his Cornish home, although the locals are always asking his opinion on theirs.
This is sometimes called Cornish broth, though in Cornwall a piece of meat or bones are generally boiled with the vegetables. Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
Nisley also raises Cornish cross broilers for meat in the spring, takes orders for them, and processes them on his farm.
Cockneys have short and open vowels, whereas the Cornish have longer vowels and speak fairly slowly.
Professional Cornishman who resigned the Tory whip in protest at tin mining closures, but was too loyal to tell anyone.
More ambitious cooking and a decent wine list transforms the cafe into a delectable spot for Cornish sardines, tiger prawns with tomatoes, garlic and basil, tagines and paellas in the evenings.
Roast Cornish Skate Wing on a bed of garlic mash with nut-brown butter, capers, parsley and lemon butter.
It is more interesting to me, for instance, to try and find out why the red oxide of copper, usually crystallizing in cubes or octahedrons, makes itself exquisitely, out of its cubes, into this red silk in one particular Cornish mine, than what are the absolutely necessary angles of the octahedron, which is its common form. The Ethics of the Dust
Joshua's mother said, that seemed to mean the same thing as a "scat" -- our Cornish word for a blow -- only the boy didn't seem to see it. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
From Cornish Blue shark steaks to Scarborough fresh-dressed crab, the range of fish is bewildering and the quality peerless.
A Cornish Coastal Footpath has been opened to give the public access to walk along the cliffs.
Granny Lean's Cornish pasties contained layers of carrots, neeps, potatoes and onions.
Henry Cornish for farm of a parcel of herbage at the rear of St. John's.
From a geographical and historical point of view, this subfamily can be divided into two branches: the continental branch, which has disappeared by now, and the insular branch, which can further be broken down as follows: Brythonic (including Breton), Cornish and Welsh on the one hand, and Gaelic on the other, which includes Irish, Erse and Mannish (the dialect of the Isle of Man). The Celtic Languages: the Richness of the Isles
CORNISH: And later, he would issue a second retraction, saying his use of the word shakedown had been wrong, and apologizing for that, too. Hayward 'Deeply Sorry', Rep. Barton Also Apologizes
The roof of Cornish slate was similarly recreated using old slate found in the garden foe matching purposes; the balustrade and balusters were also beautifully reconstructed.
North Yorkshire landscape photographer Joe Cornish has a particular fondness for his picture of waves crashing over Whitby pier during a winter storm.
And this, moreover, is largely supported by the Cornish name of the mount, and we know from our own ancient history that Cornwall was largely disforested in the reign of King John.
In your May Letters pages, Des Lambert wrote of the Cornish use of the word directly (pronounced dreckly) to convey an impending event.
That she's the great-granddaughter of a Cornish miner is the most beautiful part of all," he told me. Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown!
Telescopes, binoculars, cameras and naked eyes all strained seawards to catch a glimpse of these huge creatures that had invaded the Cornish coast.

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