On the very first day when the sun shone out Ruby Nutting came up the hill to ask Patty to take a walk.
Patty lay awake a long time that night, dreading her mission; she wished she might ask Ruby Nutting to help her, but Uncle Reuben thought it best that no one should be told.
Yes, sir; my schoolfellows have been nutting there, and I have heard them speak of it.
And as soon as the frosts came and burst open the prickly pods that covered the beechnuts he intended to lead the first nuttingparty of the season to the place where the beeches grew.
And he made for the beech grove at top speed, with the nutting party following close behind him.
Though Jasper hated to spend any of his time during the nutting season by doing much else except eat, he was so fond of nuts that he always hid away as many as he could in cracks and crevices, and buried them under the fallen leaves.
Jasper was not at all pleased when he found that Noisy Jake intended to go a-nutting too.
There was a great squawking and screaming and whistling as the nutting party flew into the tops of the beech trees and the nuts began rattling down upon the ground.
Another nutting party, led by Johnnie Green, arrived at the grove soon after them; and, of course, that put an end to their sport.
And Jasper usually preferred a nutting party of a dozen blue jays.
So the nutting party checked their flight and returned, while Jasper pointed out Solomon Owl's motionless form to them.
So he said: "I believe Noisy Jake led a nuttingparty this way.
This time it was Noisy Jake that led the nutting party.
Now, going a-nutting with a crowd is much more fun than gathering nuts alone.
Since he was no longer leading the nutting party he wanted to prevent his friends from following Noisy Jake to the place where the oak trees grew, to have an acorn hunt.
For several days afterward, Noisy Jake, whom Jasper passed in his headlong flight, talked about the blue lightning he had seen when he was going home from the nutting party.
It's too late to go nutting anyhow, and these foolish sophomores have spoiled the afternoon, for me at least.
Then, on a golden autumn eventide, The younger people making holiday, With bag and sack and basket, great and small, Went nutting to the hazels.
The roads are in fine condition for horseback exercise, nutting expeditions will soon be in order, and we have a bee-hunt on the programme.
The former was persuaded to defer her trip to New York until the morrow, and so Amy would have her nutting expedition after all.
Pleasant memories of rambles and nuttingexcursions they always awaken.
One of these falling soon after the frosts had opened the burrs of the chestnut trees and the shells of the hickories, Fleda seized upon it for a nutting frolic.
I have been a nutting many a time in my own woods at home, and I want to try it for once in the New World.
If it ain't mek nigger wuk, he wouldn't donutting but tief (thief).
Us nebber know nutting 'bout Santa Claus 'till Freedom, but on Christmas Maussa gib you meat and syrup and maybe t'ree day widout wuk.
De Master don't gib you nutting for yo' house--you hab to git dat de best way you can.
In slabery, you don't know nutting 'bout sheets for your bed.
Father, what are we to do for horses to go nutting with?
She knew thenutting party would be spoiled for him if his beloved little Topknot were left out.
I can spend but one day with you, and I would as lief spend it nutting as in any other way.
Tilly Coombs was drawn into a merry game--Ruby Nutting took care of that--and before long her queer little sharp face was actually dimpling with fun, and her laugh rang out with the gayest!
Ruby Nutting had come by this time, and she led the dance, as usual the life of the good time.
Poor people who would be likely to be slighted, and stray animals that no one wanted, those were the ones that Ruby Nutting thought of first.
Sammy Pinkney, who did not wear gloves and therefore had already got plenty of "prickers" in his stubbed fingers, although the nutting party had not been in the grove half an hour.
Then, a nutting party was a new thing to Joy, and with the care of Winnie and all, it is no wonder she did not find it very pleasant, and she had never climbed a tree in her life.
It was perfectly fair Joy should take Winnie, and of course I wasn't bound to give up my nutting party and come home, just for her.
It chanced that the spot was one of few where a glimpse of the quarry could be picked up, as the boys had discovered at the time they passed along this way, when we overtook them on their nutting trip.
The five tired lads who formed this nutting party we have met before in the pages of previous stories in this series; so that to those who have been fortunate enough to possess such books they need no lengthy introduction.
That nutting expedition was like a fairy dream to London-reared Inna; the lads showed her a squirrel or two, a dormouse not yet gone to its winter snooze, in its mossy bed-chamber.
When she came down, Oscar showed her a packet of sandwiches in thenutting basket, which Mrs. Grant had cut for them to eat if they were hungry.
I mean to take Inna to Black Hole, and round through the woods, on a nutting expedition--so there!
In fact, a nutting party in the north pastur' became an annual institution, which continues to the present time.
Tim and his tired, overworked widowed mother became frequent visitors to the same hospitable spot, as well as the rest of the boys who had formed the memorable nutting party.
The nutting season is on, although it is somewhat spoiled by "No Trespassing" signs that give such an unneighbourly look to some parts of the country.
The cove's nutting the blowen; the man is trying to please the girl.
His coat's dandy grey russet, the colour of the Devil's nutting bag.
But when Mr. Bobbsey came in alone and heard that the older twins had not come back from their nutting trip, a worried look came over his face.
But though the sun had shone brightly when they had started on their nutting trip, they had not gone far before the sky began to be overcast with clouds.
Flossie and Freddie, as they stood on the porch of the log cabin, waving to Bert and Nan, who started off with their lunch to be gone the rest of the day on the nutting party.
But she felt so gay over memories of Mr. John's nutting parties, and the prospect of another, that she forgave him all, and prepared to be thoroughly happy that afternoon.
He stopped on his way back from dinner to tell her that he had engaged to take a party of his nephews and nieces nutting that afternoon, and that he wanted her to come.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nutting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crop; cutting; gathering; gleaning; harvest; harvesting
