Freestones

The cling varieties are distinct from "freestones" that begin to arrive in Jersey orchards in August. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Weaver's peaches were ripe, sweet, spectacular and easy to handle freestones. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Actually, Salem County's early season peaches were cling and Lancaster's August peaches were freestones.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes | No | Report from joey wrote 2 years 1 week ago those are all tailwaters? or is there winter fishing in any of the freestones? ❋ Tim Romano (2008)

BLACK HILLS Though overlooked, this region is a real sleeper for trout, with everything from small tailwaters like Rapid Creek to classic freestones like Spearfish Creek. ❋ Unknown (2007)

My mistake was in thinking these would be as easy to pit as Kalamata's and obviously they aren't - it's probably very much like the difference between clingstone peaches and freestones, I'm sure olives are the same. ❋ Haalo (2007)

When peaches are purchased for canning or for any use in which it is necessary to remove the seeds, freestones should be selected. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

One bore big, white freestones, and around the seed they were pink as a rose. ❋ Unknown (1913)

People seemed to have forgotten that he had ever shown any awkward aberrancies: and he daily mounted to the parapets and copings of colleges he could never enter, and renewed the crumbling freestones of mullioned windows he would never look from, as if he had known no wish to do otherwise. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Most of them reproduce themselves truly from seed, as is well known in this country concerning the clingstones, freestones and some other types. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

About 1798, whilst digging here, a fire-place containing ashes was discovered; also many large wrought freestones. ❋ Various (1852)

Broken, park-like glades covered the upper freestones, where the red deer came out from harbor for their evening graze, and the partridges and plovers whirred up, and the hares and rabbits loped away, innumerable; and where hollies and ferns always gave dry lying for the night. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Clingstone and freestone peaches, which differ in the ripe flesh either firmly adhering to the stone, or easily separating from it, also differ in the character of the stone itself; that of the freestones or melters being more deeply fissured, with the sides of the fissures smoother than in clingstones. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

"If you can imagine it with the walls and piers exhibiting strong contrasts of colour in the dark and polished Purbeck shafts and the lighter freestones, the arches picked out with colours, the groining elaborately decorated, and the whole lighted by brilliantly painted windows with a preponderance of dark blue and ruby, together with a flood of white light showing through the lancet of the centre, we may be allowed a doubt whether Tintern or York could have compared with it." ❋ Gleeson White (1874)

In both classes the kinds differ from each other in the flesh of the fruit being white, red, or yellow; in being clingstones or freestones; in the flowers being large or small, with certain other characteristic differences; and in the leaves being serrated without glands, or crenated and furnished with globose or reniform glands. [ ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

Drunk guy # 1 - Good thing we robbed that [liqour store] tonight! Got me alot of [keystones]! Drunk guy # 2 - [You dumbass]! these arent keystones! these are Freestones! ❋ CrazyKarl1 (2009)

The girl thought her [first name] was cool, but she was freestonered and [discovered] this was [infact] not the case. ❋ SophL:) (2011)

Yo man what’s the name of the guy with [the Tom] and jerry tattoo that has a great voice? [Oh Neil] [Freestone]? ❋ Toebourton (2022)