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Example sentences for "pawpaw"

Lexicographically close words:
pawned; pawning; pawns; pawnshop; pawnshops; pawpaws; paws; pay; payable; paycheck
  1. In this it succeeded, for the next moment I saw it twisting itself up a pawpaw sapling, until it had reached the top branches, where it remained looking down at its pursuers.

  2. The moon is partly hidden behind a cloud; even so by its faint light you can see the clump of pawpaw bushes, and beyond--the outline of the rugged hills.

  3. A soft breeze stirs the pawpaw bushes down by the fence row.

  4. Osborn of Spiceland, who has done much experimental work in propagating this species, reports some interesting cases of pawpaw poisoning.

  5. Gibson County says: "A forest of pawpaw bushes attracted our attention by their tree-like size, being nearly a foot in diameter.

  6. In one instance he fed a person, subject to the rash from eating the pawpaw, a peeled pawpaw with a spoon, and the subject never touched the pawpaw, and the results were the same.

  7. So he came down with us and we went to Boonville and got in Senator Hemenway's automobile and I introduced him to a pawpaw tree six feet and a half in circumference at the ground, five foot in circumference three feet from the ground.

  8. I told Professor Close who is making a study of the pawpaw for the Department of Agriculture, that we also grew pawpaws in southern Indiana and that I would show him some large trees.

  9. There was a pawpaw and spice hedge around three sides of this one, and water on the other.

  10. Running to the pawpaw bushes I pulled some big tender leaves.

  11. It ran beside the creek bank through the spice thicket and blackberry patches, under pawpaw groves, and beneath giant oaks and elms.

  12. He leaped the fence, swung me over, and started toward the pawpaw thicket.

  13. When you reach that, you must turn to your right and go toward Hoods' until you come to the pawpaw thicket.

  14. There I turned to my right and went slower, watching for the pawpaw thicket.

  15. I thanked goodness I was a fine runner, and started for the pawpaw thicket.

  16. She also saw his face lighten at sight of Mrs Hensor's boy with the great pawpaw apple.

  17. Tommy Hensor looked up pleadingly to her, holding out the pawpaw apple.

  18. The woman carried a basket of vegetables, the boy hugged a big pawpaw fruit which he held up proudly as his mother responded in her free-and-easy, rather sulky fashion to Lady Bridget's stiff nod.

  19. He did not go directly to the spring, but took another way to a clump of pawpaw bushes, which would hide him from the observation of everyone.

  20. Trees grow to an enormous size, some of the trunks of the sassafras trees measuring from five to six feet in diameter; pawpaw trees are also very numerous.

  21. Just at sundown as they were riding by Litman's old field, John's horse shied and backed through the pawpaw bushes into Jeanne's doll house.

  22. The dolls are small bleached bones or bits of peeled pawpaw sticks, dressed in blouses made from a worn out sleeve of grandpa's red undershirt and skirts from scraps of worn and faded calico.

  23. The captains of the Peosta and the Pawpaw both informed me that the day before the rebels took advantage of the presence of women there, behind whom they covered themselves, and fired at the officers and men on the gunboats.

  24. Edward Fuhlbruegge of Scotch Plains has long tried to grow pawpaw seedlings with no success.

  25. One pawpaw is still trying to get ahead of the winter set-backs, and a Macedonian white pine (said to produce edible nuts) is doing fine.

  26. From the locust tree east of my lodge to the pawpaw on the west, as the branch swings in the wind, so shall you swing.

  27. This was, first, the anointing of the child's body with some unctuous substance that the old woman had brought, wrapped in a pawpaw leaf.

  28. That's where he'd be one pawpaw above my tallest persimmon.

  29. Now they would come to cornfields and tobacco patches that steamed in the sunshine, conceding the season to be summer; or else old, abandoned clearings, grown up rankly in shoe-make bushes and pawpaw and persimmon and sassafras.

  30. Pawpaw The Pawpaw is native in Missouri and Arkansas and in the eastern part of Oklahoma.

  31. Along the draws that emptied into the stream were pawpaw trees, with their tender foliage, and their soft wood, which little boys delighted to cut for stick horses.

  32. We passed the first night of our journey at Pawpaw Grove--so named from the number of pawpaw-trees which grow in it, but which here scarcely find the summer long enough to perfect their fruit.

  33. One such we stopped to look at from an eminence in a broad prairie in Lee county, between Knox Grove and Pawpaw Grove.

  34. Fearless stripped off a great quantity of bark of the pawpaw tree.

  35. By fastening pieces of the pawpaw bark together with pitch, he managed to make a very large speaking trumpet, which would carry the voice a long distance.

  36. From the top of it Fearless could make his voice heard for three miles round by the aid of his great pawpaw trumpet.

  37. The pawpaw also is present, to attest the extreme richness of the soil; but the flowering plants, that flourish in profuse luxuriance over the glade, are sufficient evidence of its fertility.

  38. I remembered that there was a pawpaw thicket near this place.

  39. All this would surely baffle the dogs for a while; besides, D'Hauteville, at starting, had left the pawpaw thicket by a different route from that we had taken.

  40. As I approached the pawpaw thicket, I walked with lighter tread.

  41. The pawpaw thicket, where we had passed the night, lay near the south-eastern angle of Gayarre's plantation.

  42. Near New Orleans the undergrowth of Palmetto and pawpaw is highly beautiful, but in Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio, I never found the slightest beauty in the forest scenery.

  43. You was jes' tellin' to yourself how dis shiftless, lying nigger got dem pawpaw leaves to make dis bar meat tender.

  44. It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue.

  45. We came direct from Pawpaw Grove to Nauvoo, having got our writ directed to the nearest court having authority to try the case, which was the municipal court of this city.

  46. We started for Ottoway, and arrived at Pawpaw Grove, thirty-two miles, where we stopped for the night.

  47. The whole company left Dixon on the twenty-fourth of June, and the same day arrived at Pawpaw Grove, a distance of thirty-two miles.

  48. The arrival of the Prophet and party at Pawpaw Grove created no little excitement, and the next morning the people gathered into the largest room in the hotel, and insisted upon hearing the Prophet preach.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawpaw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.