"Pecan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaves, signifies a long, peaceful existence. Failure in love or business will follow in proportion as the pecan ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller
... never went out, and had no occasion to fire my gun; except, being detained over a day at Goliad, Benjamin and I concluded to go down to the creek—which was fringed with timber, much of it the pecan—and bring back a few turkeys. We had scarcely reached the edge of the timber when I heard the flutter of wings overhead, and in an instant I saw two or three turkeys flying away. These were soon followed by more, ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... de ding seemed doubtenful, Boot mitout delay he dook de horns so poldly py de bull, Und shpread de shdory eferyvhere, dill folk to pliefe pecan, Dat Mishder Schmit had sold de vight ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... me travelling through the Choctaw nation, which, at that time, with the exception of the government posts, was a wilderness. Fort Towson, Duxborough, Jonesborough, Lost Prairie, Horse Prairie, Pecan Point, and several other places throughout this wild and newly settled country, were crowded with every kind and description of people from the states, from, the government agents and contractors to the wild and mysterious refugee—the latter being ...
— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green
... native fruits in particular are now receiving, in many parts of the country, a larger share of the attention which they have always merited, and none has proven itself more worthy of careful study and painstaking care than the pecan. ...
— The Pecan and its Culture • H. Harold Hume |
