Black Walnut

Amy Sussman for The Wall Street Journal Maple doors and cabinetry and American black-walnut floors warm up the space. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)

He had his own hideaway room in the basement, down the hall from the white lift-up freezer where my grandmother kept her black-walnut cookies. ❋ DAVID MARANISS (2010)

The silver-haired woman then led the way through a dizzying succession of hallways, antechambers, and outer offices, ultimately to the double black-walnut doors that opened into the seemingly vast corner office of Peter Winn, chairman and chief executive officer. ❋ DEE JACOB (2010)

Rubbed on the skin, black-walnut extract is reputed to be beneficial for eczema, herpes, psoriasis, and skin parasites. ❋ Earl Mindell (2008)

“Let me see,” he repeated, opening and closing drawer after drawer of the massive black-walnut bureau. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Within, the house was furnished as Scarlett had desired, with thick red carpeting which ran from wall to wall, red velvet portieres and the newest of highly varnished black-walnut furniture, carved wherever there was an inch for carving and upholstered in such slick horsehair that ladies had to deposit themselves thereon with great care for fear of sliding off. ❋ Margaret Mitchell (1996)

The table and the groaning sideboards contained a full seven sweets and seven sours, eight kinds of meat, three kinds of fowl, and six kinds of cookies, including the ones whose memory had tormented him when he was starving: crunchy black-walnut made with black molasses. ❋ Michener, James (1974)

Dude, I haven’t [showered] for a week and therefore have a huge black walnut [blocking] [my asshole]. ❋ Trombone77 (2021)

Dude, I haven't [showered] in days and just had to [remove] a huge black walnut [from my ass] hair. It was horrible. ❋ Trombone77 (2021)

Dude, this [camping trip] has lasted so long that my shit has [clumped] into black [walnuts] around my asshole. ❋ Trombone77 (2021)