Feeling empty, however, as the core of a big black-gum tree. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)
Some in gums made from sections of the hollow trunks of black-gum trees, holes augured in them and oriented with the points of the compass. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)
The mountains are covered from foot to summit with fine forests of maple, hickory, oak, sweet and black-gum, sourwood and pine. ❋ U.S. (1915)
Those not already cleared for cultivation were covered with a magnificent growth of timber, - oaks of many species, yellow pine, hickory, elm, sweet-and black-gum, besides countless other trees and shrubs of less value. ❋ Unknown (1887)
But they're to stay there until some of those black-gum trees begin to glut the market with yellow clings and Japanese plums. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
Her lap was full of autumn leaves -- maple and gum, flaming and variegated, brown oak of various shapes and shades, golden hickory, the open burrs of the chintuapine, pine cones, and the dun scraggly balls of the black-gum, some glowing bunches of the flame-bush, with their wealth of bursting red beries, and a full-laden branch of the black-haw. ❋ Unknown (1880)
He told me to put her hair and some stuff he give me into a hole in the black-gum that hangs over the stone, and I did it. ❋ Henry Mills Alden (1877)
I see a woman hiding something in a black-gum tree that hangs over running water. ❋ Henry Mills Alden (1877)
Close by, its sprawling roots washed by the running water, was an immense black-gum, in the branches of which the same Cuffee had built himself a covert of branches, from which he watched his pursuers in their vain hunt for him. ❋ Henry Mills Alden (1877)
Her lap was full of autumn leaves-maple and gum, flaming and variegated, brown oak of various shapes and shades, golden hickory, the open burrs of the chintuapin, pine cones, and the dun scraggly balls of the black-gum, some glowing bunches of the flame-bush, with their wealth of bursting red beries, and a full-laden branch of the black-haw. ❋ Albion Winegar Tourg��e (1871)
Then there were the sweet-gums, fragrant and star-leaved, and the black-gum, tough, dark, and unpretending. ❋ Frank Richard Stockton (1868)
In the Charleston Courier, October, 1861, it is advised that when the black-gum is used as a substitute for leather, "for complete protection against moisture, a slip or inner sole and lining of any water-proof material may be added." ❋ Unknown (1863)
The original growth of all this now drained and cultivated land was mainly of black-gum and cypress, and other trees usually growing in company with these. ❋ Unknown (1861)
The overseer walked to and fro behind to see that they did not cut out too much cotton with the hoe, and that they took up the grass; if they did not, he would whip generally with a long bull whip, sometimes with a bunch of six or eight black-gum switches, generally laying on hard. ❋ Unknown (1856)
Suiting the action to the word, Covey paced off, in his own wiry fashion, to a large, black-gum tree, the young shoots of which are generally used for ox goads, they being exceedingly tough. ❋ Unknown (1850)
-- Take a handful of each of the following barks, red-bud horn-beam, (commonly called iron wood,) red-elm, sweet-gum and black-gum; also, a handful of yellow root and iron-weed root, make a strong decoction of these articles, and let the patient drink of it freely, a purge of the anti-billious pills should be taken to work off the acrid contents of the bowels. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)
