The October frosts came, sweetening the persimmons and ripening the nuts in the hazel copse; but it nipped the children's bare feet, and made the thinly clad little shoulders shiver.
Nuts and persimmons and wild fox-grapes filled the little wagon many times, and made a welcome addition to Mammy's meagre bill of fare.
Then she knew that thepersimmons were ready to be eaten.
There on the branches the round persimmons were shining yellow in the moonlight.
Night after night, till the little persimmons were gone, the opossums hurried away to the thicket, and ate and ate till they could eat no longer.
Just give Persimmons down below a hail and tell him to slow up a bit.
Persimmons was below, having returned to his engines.
One of Harry Ware's ghosts," declared Persimmons soberly, but with a twinkle in his eye nevertheless.
They'd say I had been seeing spooks again, and Persimmons would kid the life out of me.
But there was no help for it, and as soon as he had room to turn he sent down a clanging signal to Persimmons for "full speed ahead.
If we get up against any more mysteries I'm going to quit and go back home," breathed Persimmons agitatedly to himself.
Persimmons abbreviated the name of the famous rapids into the form by which they were locally known.
As for Persimmons in the engine room, he knew that some emergency must be confronting them.
Persimmons dived below, donned his engineer's overalls and began to test up his engines for the night run.
With Persimmonsmaking good his promise, it was not long before the tender's headway was checked off Dr.
We're in on anything you suggest, Ralph," responded Harry, while Persimmons vigorously nodded his endorsement to that.
Ralph toldPersimmons to go below and attend to his engines before he replied.
But a moment's reflection caused Persimmons to reject this explanation of the sanded carburetors.
But it was no go; the General ordered him under guard and eat the persimmons as part of the punishment.
That man," said a Lieutenant, "when he saw our Brigadier coming up, presented him with a couple of persimmons very politely.
As the season advanced, and persimmons became more palatable, crowds would thus be brought up nightly for punishment.
In my statement in the American Nut Journal last May or June I mentioned that all the grafted persimmons sent from Washington were winter-killed.
Housewarming" on Parched Corn, Persimmons and Water= Then we went out and cut small poles and made a bunk, to lift us off the ground.
The refreshments were parched corn, persimmons (which two of us walked two miles to get) and water.
The next year I found a persimmon tree up in the woods with maybe a peck of great big nice persimmons and later I found that that was a Fuyugaki persimmon.
We had below-zero weather, and all of my persimmonswere killed--I thought.
I purchased three, four, maybe five Japanese persimmons and planted these trees in the spring of 1935.
In the East, most of the Oriental persimmons are grafted on American root stocks, and trees in one case were killed by the wilt fungus getting in on the susceptible root stock.
The Japanese or Chinese persimmons do not grow as well on their own roots, although they are quite safe that way as these two species are very resistant to the wilt.
Now the 'possum had been having persimmons every night since the frosts of October; so of course he felt no such hunger for persimmons as I felt.
But ripe persimmons would be a Christmas dinner for a 'possum every day in the year.
Persimmons and good-will are very proper things to be filled with when you go into the Christmas woods.
There is nothing so unspeakably good as persimmons if you happen to be a 'possum, or if you happen to be a boy--even after twenty years!
In the bare trees the persimmonshung like silver beads.
The persimmons still hold on; but these are not for long, unless you keep guard over the trees, for they are marked: the possums have counted every persimmon.
You will often wonder why you find so few persimmons upon the ground after a windy, frosty night.
Possums andpersimmons come together, and Uncle Jethro pronounces them "bofe good fruit.
Then you may expect to find your persimmons rolled up in possum fat among the rails; for here the thieves are sure to camp throughout the persimmon season, as the berry-pickers camp in the pines during huckleberry-time.
I smelledpersimmons distinctly--it was that cold; brown spicy persimmons smashed on crisp autumn leaves down in old Missouri!
The rebs laugh, and eat his persimmons and take him prisoner and march off; Jim allowing that he was so hungry that he'd stolen off by his lonesome to get something to eat.
He was up it in no time, and eating and slinging thepersimmons into his hat.
Don't you go up a tree for persimmons or cherries or other fruits whatsomever, agin the advice of your elders and betters.
Then I run down and strike a persimmon tree so hard with my head that all the ripe persimmons drop on the ground.
They are stories of wild turkeys, of persimmons and raccoons, and of the spirits which dwell in the mountain places where none dare go.
The fatter they get, the lazier they are; and as the season advances, and the fruit falls, the opossums are likely to satisfy their appetites with the persimmons they can pick up under the trees.
Persimmons improve, the longer they hang upon the trees.
These persimmons look like great ripe tomatoes as we see them on the fruit stands, but these, too, must wait until they are thoroughly ripe before they are fit to eat.
Do not gatherpersimmons till late in the fall, when they are well sweetened with the frost.
Persimmons and wild grapes are not eatable till they are touched by the frost.
Boil persimmons just as you do prunes now day and they will answer for the same purpose.
For instance, the field that fitted my plan to plant walnuts is too wet, so there we shall plant the hickories, pecans and hicans with persimmons as fillers.
Our persimmons grew from seed, were transplanted and came through the first winter!
The quality of the pods varied all the way from the sweet Millwood to our native honey locusts, most of which are so bitter and astringent that they remind us of a combination of green persimmons and red pepper.
At least I have persimmons hardy enough to stand the winters north of Lake Ontario, but I am not sure about the pawpaw.
Look here, boys, thepersimmons on that tree over thar are gittin' 'mos fit to eat.
But the first man to reach the tree came back with a wry face, and fell to swearing at "the darn fool who could eat persimmons before frost.
Most of the Japanese persimmons are not hardy in Connecticut, but an occasional variety given a moderate degree of protection will manage to live pretty well.
They are uncertain trees, however, as two of the trees grafted to Bennett Japaneses persimmons from Newark, N.
A group of Japanese persimmons in a protected corner of a west-facing side hill.
So he asked the monkey to climb up and get the persimmons for him.
The tree was full of persimmons but the crab had no means of climbing the tree.
The unripe persimmons he threw at the crab, but all the ripe and good ones he put in his pouch.
They would boil the roots and gather the persimmons until he came.
The Indian knew no means of providing for the future, except the husbanding, in great baskets, of his corn, drying persimmons on hurdles and oysters on strings.
Even I," laughed the owner of the symbolic trees, "planted not persimmons but pines.
While he was eating the persimmons he was discovered by their owner.
I planted commemorative trees until more persimmons than I can ever gather await my return to Japan.
In an exposed position on a hill-top I found persimmons being grown on a system under which the landlord provided the land, trees and manures and the farmer the labour, and the produce was equally divided.
They were delicious persimmons that were quite edible before frost, they are probably the two furthest north persimmon trees in the world.
She said, "Yes, take them all; the neighbors come here and while they are getting the persimmons they bother me a lot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persimmons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
