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Example sentences for "hickory nuts"

  • Hickory nuts or pecans are considered the best.

  • The nuts furnished food for man in the form of oil or nutmeats and often hogs were fattened on hickory nuts, beechnuts and chestnuts.

  • After walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts and hazels have been gathered, they should be dried until the hulls have lost most of their moisture.

  • They do this to hickory nuts, and apparently are very fond of the half-ripened nuts.

  • Hickory nuts have a husk as every country child knows; but the husk has a good-natured habit of splitting neatly into four equal parts which fall away from the nut when dry.

  • Such nuts as pecans, hickory nuts, and walnuts transfer large amounts of potassium from the tree itself into the shucks or hulls.

  • The development of walnuts, hickory nuts, and filberts, so far as is known, is in all essentials the same as that described for the pecan nut except that the kernel or embryo begins to grow somewhat earlier in the season.

  • A bushel of hickory nuts at three dollars yields as many calories as sixteen dollars' worth of round steak.

  • The nuts looked like acorns but when I picked them up I found them as hard as hickory nuts.

  • Being born and brought up in Massachusetts, I naturally noticed this, as one of the pleasures of my boyhood days consisted in gathering chestnuts, hickory nuts, hazelnuts and beechnuts.

  • I grew up in Northern Illinois and could go out on a day like this and gather two or three bushels of hickory nuts.

  • This custard is nice with a cup of hickory nuts, kernels chopped fine and stirred into it.


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