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Meanings of hickory sapling in English

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Usage of hickory sapling in English
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He was as hard and nearly as springy as a hickory sapling.
The Happy End
2
She was a tall girl, brown-haired, comely, lithe and supple "as a hickory sapling."
The Winning of the West, Volume 1 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
3
He was a model soldier, active and wiry as a cat and tough as a hickory sapling.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson / In Which is T...
4
Yet he wasn't old beyond hope, past love-asstrong and nearly as springy as a hickory sapling.
The Happy End
5
You find a nice stout hickory sapling of the right kind, and strip it of all the branches.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
6
Bub had "growed up" like a hickory sapling.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
7
So I came in imagination to the particular corner in the fence where I had cut my hickory sapling.
Adventures in Contentment
8
A minute afterwards, having chopped down a hickory sapling, he began to pry at the boulder which held the mass.
A Romany of the Snows, Complete / Being a Continuation of the Pe...
9
In age she was verging upon twenty, and she was tall, straight as an arrow, and lithe as a hickory sapling.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
10
Then she saw him seize the hickory sapling he had leaned against the house, and burst upon the group like a thunderbolt.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
11
The hickory sapling was indeed standing up almost straight, with the loop dangling part way down; but the snare was devoid of any victim.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
12
With her they shall grow like hickory saplings, towering with strength.
Po-No-Kah: An Indian Tale of Long Ago
13
Under his arm were two stout hickory saplings.
The Tides of Barnegat
14
Sleds were made of buffalo ribs and hickory saplings, the runners bound with rawhide with the hair side down.
Indian Boyhood
15
It was in the middle of a grove of oak and hickory saplings, and was nearly hidden by hazel bushes.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
16
"And that hickory sapling does look like it was the toughest bow ever," Bandy-legs affirmed.
Chums of the Camp Fire
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Hickory sapling across language varieties
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