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"Hickory nut" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked as if he thought you couldn't find his 'ditto' anywhere. He used some most particular educational words, genuine jaw-breakers. He put me in mind of a squirrel I once shot in our wood location. The little critter got a hickory nut in his mouth; well, he found it too hard to crack, and too big to swaller, and for the life and soul of him, he couldn't spit it out agin. If he didn't look like a proper fool, you may depend. We had a pond back of our barn about the bigness of a good sizeable ...

— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... made as follows:—Take 1/2 the white of 1 egg, mix it with 2 tablespoonfuls sifted powdered sugar and stir for a few minutes; then add it to the almonds; mix the whole into a firm paste and form with the hands into small round balls the size of a hickory nut; line some shallow tin pans with brown paper (such as is used for wrapping paper), but do not butter it; set the balls in even rows, one inch apart, on the paper, flatten each one a little with a wet finger and bake them in a medium hot oven to a golden color; ...

— Desserts and Salads • Gesine Lemcke

... are furnished with sacs containing a lubricating fluid called synovia. When these sacs are overdistended by reason of an excessive secretion of synovia, they are called windgalls. They form a soft, puffy tumor about the size of a hickory nut, and are most often found in the fore leg, at the upper part of the fetlock joint, between the tendon and the shin bone. When they develop in the hind leg it is not unusual to see them reach the size of a walnut. Occasionally they appear in front of the fetlock on the ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... the shining glass and silver at Juliet Burwell's. The flavour of the cake she had given him seemed to intensify his distaste for the food before him. He felt that he cared for nobody—that he wanted nothing. He looked at his stepmother and thought that she was dried and brown like a hickory nut; he looked at Sairy Jane and wondered why she didn't have any eyelashes, and he looked at Jubal and saw ...

— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... genera. Loeb, by destroying the cell membrane of the sea urchin, was enabled to cross the sea urchin with the star fish, and no one knows but we may be able, following this line of experimentation, eventually to cross the shagbark hickory with a pumpkin and get a shagbark hickory nut half the size of the pumpkin. That is ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association