The word no, hung on his lips, like a wormy apple, jist ready to drop the fust shake; but before it let go, the great strength, the spryness, and the oncommon obedience of pony to the bit, seemed to kinder balance the objections; while the sartan and ontimely eend that hung over his own mare, during the comin' winter, death by starvation, turned the scale.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I found 600,000 pounds of maize were wormy and over 700,000 pounds of corned beef were putrid.
"The Secrets of the German War Office"
Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
Something is needed to whack things with, little stones, wormy apples, and so forth, in the road.
"Walking-Stick Papers"
Robert Cortes Holliday