{86a} Passeres glandium, acorn sparrows. {86b} Equi grues, horse-cranes. {87a} Air-flies. {87b} Gr.

[Greek], cani glandacii, acorn-dogs. {88c} Gr.

They walk in linen gowns, and each has a stick, with an acorn; but for the acorn they could give no reason, till I told them of the civick crown.

By the time Jennifer and Emma got home, he had baked an acorn squash, started a fire, done two loads of laundry, and split more wood.

From the fruit, which is smaller than an acorn, oil is obtained by crushing and boiling it; the oil then disengages itself and floats on the top of the water.

She had been occupying her hands while she talked, collecting tiny twigs and acorn cups that happened to be within reach

Suppose we plant an acorn in a corner of our garden.

Pshaw, damn these acorn cups, they would not drench a fairy.

By degrees the ovary swells into the acorn and the membrane becomes part of the shell.

[Illustration: SQUIRREL AND ACORN] "Some animals think they are," continued Miss Harson.

This is what one of our English books says of them: 'When the acorn itself is wounded, it becomes a kind of monstrosity, and remains on the stalk like an irregularly-shaped ball.

The flower shows what was in the seed, the oak is the revelation of what was in the heart of the acorn; and man as the last and best outcome of nature is the authoritative expression of the power that is behind nature.

Three for an acorn.

BAKER, MARY. Three for an acorn.

Tom Whipple, the acorn and the emperors of Russia.

Three for an acorn.

BAKER, MARY. Three for an acorn.

Now and then an acorn drops from the tree overhead, with a smart tap on the hard earth, and rebounds some inches high.

Acorn The winner of this contest also had a prize.

'And do you, oh, do you remember that you fell asleep under the oak, and that a little acorn fell into your bosom and you tossed it out in a pet?

Ah, Olive dear, I found that acorn, and kissed it twice, and kissed it thrice for thee!

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?

I had nothing against the acorn-eating brown or black bears.

To invest existence with a stately air, Needs but to remember That the acorn there Is the egg of forests For the upper air!

There are two equal and eternal ways of looking at this twilight world of ours: we may see it as the twilight of evening or the twilight of morning; we may think of anything, down to a fallen acorn, as a descendant or as an ancestor.