Acorns
['ekɔrn]
Examples
- Mr. Bell would have had it keep still at exchanging wild-beast skins for acorns. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He had for food hazel-nuts, beech-nuts, sweet chestnuts, earth-nuts, and acorns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I guess the princess gave him a posy, and opened the gate after a while, said Laurie, smiling to himself, as he threw acorns at his tutor. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Food, however, became scarce; and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Edited by Charlene