Nuts

Examples

• Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He's a fine place-kick, it's true, but then he has no judgment, and he can't sprint for nuts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Well, said Haley, after they had both silently picked their nuts for a season, what do you say? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Maurice, leaning forward with a sigh, took a handful of nuts, which he proceeded to crack in a listless fashion. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I call it pie, nuts, sugar-candy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Provision of oranges, apples, and nuts was also made. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Do you care for nuts? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In one sense it was, as he would have expressed it, nuts to him to see this. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Peanuts are really the seeds or pods of a plant belonging to the family called the earthnut in Great Britain, the nuts there being used chiefly to fatten swine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It gave you the face-ache to look at his apples, the stomach-ache to look at his oranges, the tooth-ache to look at his nuts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And Gunto, summoned, says that Tana is lazy and will not bring him nuts and beetles, or scratch his back for him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The buds from which the plant men blossomed resembled large nuts about a foot in diameter, divided by double partition walls into four sections. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Other plant products, such as nuts, have fat as their most abundant food constituent. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In Brazil the juice is collected in clay vessels and smoked and dried in a smouldering fire of palm nuts, which gives the material its dark brown appearance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then I came in with cracked hickory nuts, then pop-corn balls, and, finally, molasses candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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.
• So did a heap of nuts, long, long exiled from Barcelona, and yet speaking English so indifferently as to call fourteen of themselves a pint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For several days he moved about but little, only enough to gather what fruits and nuts he required to satisfy the demands of hunger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Then they both laughed, and began cracking nuts, and spitting the shells about. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The best-known proteids are white of egg, curd of milk, and lean of fish and meat; peas and beans have an abundant supply of this substance, and nuts are rich in it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This fire is built of oily nuts found in the forest, and the thick smoke arises through what would be the neck of the bottle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As most people have discovered, the nuts have a much more agreeable taste after being roasted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It's quite nuts for you? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typed by Elbert