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And popular “Belgian endive,” also known as witloof “white-head”, is a double-grown, slightly bitter version of an otherwise very bitter chicory.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

And popular “Belgian endive,” also known as witloof “white-head”, is a double-grown, slightly bitter version of an otherwise very bitter chicory.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The biggest, and maybe the best thing in the way of vegetables that we had then was the white-head cabbage; they grew large up there in Carolina where I lived.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

But the boy ran like a white-head that he was, and a race of several yards ensued before he was caught.

The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

The tuna belongs to the mackerel family, is built like a white-head torpedo, and for gameness, speed and endurance is hard to beat.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

I can only spell the way that sounds, but it means "white-head," and she always used that name when she loved him most.

Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

Confound you, Brady, you invited all of this, you brought it down upon your head with all that nonsense about — why, it was you who converted old Templeton Thorpe and here you are running away like a 'white-head.'

From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon 1897

I can only spell the way that sounds, but it means "white-head," and she always used that name when she loved him most.

Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

The red-breasted sap-sucker and Williamson's sap-sucker are found most frequently among the aspens and willows along the lake shore, while the red-shafted flicker, Cabanis's woodpecker, and the white-head favor the woods.

The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter George Wharton James 1890

Then you pay down shekels (here her Bible reading came in) for the cost of journey and hire brave hunter to kill devil-god and bring my old white-head parent with you.

Allan and the Holy Flower Henry Rider Haggard 1890