free-stone

My brother Isaac hinted, that my father and he, could easily work a small free-stone into the buttress, and said, you was the likeliest person in our family, to remember a suitable verse, if you had ever seen one, — or else to compose one.

Letter 2 2009

We came home with an 8-foot La Feliciana type, which is a low-chill variety that produces large, free-stone fruit which ripen by early July.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Usually they are interchangeable here in Mexico with a lot of people having never heard the word melocotón and a lot of other people never having seen a free-stone peach in their whole lives either.

Latin American/Spain Spanish 2006

I have found over the years that Durazno usually means a cling peach and Melocotón can sometimes mean a free-stone.

Latin American/Spain Spanish 2006

As in the above-mentioned instance, the contract and ceremony of marriage with Sempronia is the occasion of the denomination and relation of husband; and the colour white the occasion why he is said to be whiter than free-stone.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

The best such fishing comes in tailwaters because water flowing from the bottom of a dam is warmer than that in a free-stone stream full of slushy ice chunks.

15 Winter Fishing Destinations 2005

It is of free-stone, and, I suppose, about thirty feet high.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

There is plenty of lime-stone in the island, a great quarry of free-stone, and some natural woods, but none of any age, as they cut the trees for common country uses.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

Northumbrian chisel, grinned and ramped in red free-stone, now japanned by the smoke of centuries.

Rob Roy 2005

The climate is either so pure and dry, or the free-stone, with which it is built, so hard, that the very angles of them remain as acute as if they had been cut last year.

Travels through France and Italy 2004