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Continued on my course through granite and quartz country, splendidly grassed, and timbered with stringy-bark and gums, pines, palms, nut-trees, and a wattle bush, which in some places was rather thick, but not at all difficult to get through.
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“A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,” replied Little
Household Tales 2003
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Governor's Island; which was then known as Nut Island, because of the many nut-trees that grew there.
The Story of Manhattan Charles Hemstreet
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In Switzerland, where the belief is that the child thrives with the tree, or _vice versa_, apple-trees are planted for boys and pear - or nut-trees for girls.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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There were two rustic seats under the nut-trees; the cure took one and asked Reine to take the other, opposite to him.
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If nutting or berrying are the objects of the party, the gentlemen must climb the nut-trees, seek out the berry-bushes, carry double allowances of baskets and kettles, and be ready for any assistance required in climbing fences or scrambling over rocks.
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The walls of the old city have been leveled into broad promenades, shaded with nut-trees, encircling the town as with a girdle of green.
The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs
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It was a thick copse of hazel past which ran -- heard but not seen -- the river; which, where the shrubbery ended, formed a dark, deep pool, so garnished by overhanging nut-trees that it had acquired the name of the Nut-hole.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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Bright-hued birds, roused by the tumult, flew wildly hither and thither, now and then the superb plumage of a bird of paradise flashing like a jewel among the dense foliage of cypress and nut-trees.
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GO'SLING, _s. _ a young goose; a catkin on nut-trees and pines
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