pine-cones

You've got to believe in something even if it appears to be nothing more than a bunch of useless words printed on a page to look like some heavy pine-cones swinging.

Little Water/Please Pull Forward/The Butterfly Society 2009

We collected pine-cones for the winter fires, two bags full.

Archive 2004-08-01 Eric Wiley 2004

We collected pine-cones for the winter fires, two bags full.

Sunday, a Bulgarian picnic Eric Wiley 2004

With infinite faith in the tendencies of mineral and vegetable nature, in human nature he shows no practical trust, and must even be severe upon the babies in the Maine log-huts for playing with wooden dolls instead of pine-cones.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

These are extensively eaten in Rome, as well as the seeds of pine-cones, acorns, and round yellow chick-peas; these supply the place occupied by ground-nuts in our more favored land.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various

His tale runs thus: -- 'I had been four days without game, and naturally without anything to eat except pine-cones and green chestnuts.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

She was a queer little thing: we used to find her sometimes dancing alone out on the barren in a circle she had marked out with pine-cones, and once she confided to us that she talked to the trees.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

It is lined with pine-cones, in a pretty way enough, but of doubtful taste.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

Not only are dust and sand thus transported in large quantities to the higher mountain-regions, but leaves are frequently found strewn upon the upper glacier, and even pine-cones, and maple-seeds flying upward on their spread wings, are scattered thousands of feet above and many miles beyond the forests where they grew.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

Every seat in the two conveyances was occupied, and all the available corners were filled with tightly packed baskets, containing charcoal and pine-cones to kindle a fire upon the smooth beach, tea-kettles and teapots, table linen, dishes and provisions.

The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland