Every now and then your path will be crossed by one of these busy old gentlemen, worrying about with awkward gait, as if troubled with the gout, or with Corns on his toes, casting about many a prying look, turning down first one eye, then the other, in earnest consideration, upon every straw he meets with; until, espying some mighty twig, large enough to make a rafter for his air-castle, he will seize upon it with avidity, and hurry away with it to the tree-top; fearing, apparently, lest you should dispute with him the invaluable prize.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
If there is anything in the human body which we ought to be thoroughly ashamed of, it is Corns; for they are caused by our own vanity, and nothing else, in cramping our feet into shoes one or two sizes too small for them.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
"A bargain," he would whisper in an awed voice, nodding gravely at the opposite bulkhead, as he sat in his room with his feet in a bucket of hot water, for this was his way with Corns.
"Command"
William McFee