I call to mind one man who could side with Old Hickory in the case of Mrs. Peggy Eaton.

The squirrels have their business among the beeches and hickories by the road-side, where they can watch the traffic and talk.

Whole forest areas in the South have been denuded for hickory for spokes.

Ef Johnnie Consadine had been any manner o' kin to me, I vow I'd 'a' taken a hickory to her when she set up her word agin' mine and let him go out of the house.

They had lost all remembrance of Europe and all sympathy with things European; they had become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough and supple hickories out of which they fashioned the handles of their long, light axes.

The results of tests from selected pieces lying side by side in the same tree, and also the average values for heartwood and sapwood in shipments of the commercial hickories without selection, show conclusively that "the transformation of sapwood into heartwood does not affect either the strength or toughness of the wood....

"Yes, an' if she was my gal I'd talk to her with a hickory about that there business.