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"Hickory tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enclosure she gazed around her like a caged animal seeking escape. The sun beat down on her bare head mercilessly, and mechanically she moved to the shade of a half-grown hickory tree that voluntarily had sprouted beside the milk house. At her feet lay an axe with which she made kindlings for fires. She stooped and picked it up. The memory of that prone figure sobbing in the grass caught her with a renewed ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... the same way!" said Robert Robin. "I think it runs in our family!" Then Robert Robin felt so fine that he flew up to the top of a hickory tree and sang his ...
— Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin • Ben Field
... on the tip of one of the highest branches of a big hickory tree. Happy Jack was up very early that morning. In fact, jolly, round, red Mr. Sun was still in his bed behind the Purple Hills when Happy Jack hopped briskly out of bed. He washed himself thoroughly and was ready for business by the time Mr. ...
— Happy Jack • Thornton Burgess
... were soon gathered and put into a new hive. By this time the third one was out and they saw it was getting ready for a long flight, for it kept getting higher and higher, despite the racket they made, and started off. It flew for quite a distance before it settled on the limb of a shell-bark hickory tree in a ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... it so that he could give me his opinion of them. Mr. Jones responded by advising me about the kind of a contract to make with Mr. Fobes in regard to both the purchasing and propagation of the original hickory tree and he urged the latter enthusiastically. Of the Weschcke hickory nuts themselves, he wrote: "This is practically identical with the Glover. The Glover is usually a little larger but this varies in all nuts from year to year. This is a fine nut ...
— Growing Nuts in the North • Carl Weschcke |
Words linked to "Hickory tree" : bitter hickory, genus Carya, big-bud hickory, bitternut hickory, mockernut hickory, nut tree, brown hickory, Carya tomentosa, Carya glabra, pignut, Carya myristicaeformis, pignut hickory, Carya aquatica, king nut, black hickory, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory, shagbark, swamp hickory, bitternut, shellbark, Carya laciniosa, Carya ovata, white-heart hickory, big shellbark, Carya cordiformis, Carya myristiciformis, big shagbark, Carya, nutmeg hickory, king nut hickory, bitter pignut, water bitternut, water hickory, big shellbark hickory, mockernut, bitter pecan, hickory |
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