Beechnut

There is also the fact that the beechnut is the slowest growing of all the common nut trees, requiring from twenty to thirty years to come into bearing as a seedling. ❋ Carl Weschcke (1933)

Thanks to local and state governments, our tax money gets allocated to whomever beechnut sees fit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I was sitting in the common room in my home-dyed beechnut brown dress, my suitcase next to me, when Mother Albertina came to take me to the depot. ❋ Jeannette Walls (1994)

Some of the girls complained about the gray uniforms we had to wear, but I liked the way they leveled out the differences between those who could afford fancy store-bought clothes and those of us, like me, who had only home-dyed beechnut brown dresses. ❋ Jeannette Walls (1994)

There was a scurry of movement in the beechnut mast, then a small animal raced straight up the smooth trunk. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

He was passing the beechnut tree at a dead run-maybe literally dead-going too fast to stop. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1977)

The opening will be right in front of the big beechnut tree-and for only five seconds. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1977)

It was a beechwood forest and the fallen beechnut burrs were under his shoes as he walked between the trees. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (1953)

I want also to suggest that Prof. Smith include among the nuts, the beechnut, because there's more meat in beechnuts for the amount of shell than any other nut we grow. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Hither and yon they hopped and flitted, picking the weevils out of the dead tips of the growing pine trees, serving the beech trees such a good turn that the beechnut crop was the heavier for their visit, doing a bit for the maple-sugar trees, and so on through the woodland. ❋ Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim (N/A)

Toward the middle of October, about the time of the beechnut harvest, M. Eustache Destourbet, justice of the Peace of Auberive, accompanied by his clerk, Etienne Seurrot, left his home at Abbatiale, in order to repair to the Chateau of Vivey, where he was to take part in removing the seals on some property whose owner had deceased. ❋ Various (N/A)

The beechnut and the hickory nut are rich and much prized swine food. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It is not doubted that one will appear, for our present score cards for hickories, walnuts, etc., are the result of changes made as nuts received in the contests have shown such to be advisable, and work on the beechnut is 10 years or so behind that on other nuts. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In this country we have the walnut, butternut, hazel nut and the hickory nut, the chestnut and the beechnut. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Being too lazy to perform [the Abe Lincoln] and not wanting to risk being caught [tea bagging] Steve, Hayden gave him the less-intrusive, longer-lasting [beechnut] instead. ❋ Big Dork Socks (2010)

[My girlfriend] wanted to [have sex] after she [took a dump], so I gave her a Virginia Beechnut. ❋ Slingblade Wilson (2018)