"It will delay your work a little, but never mind; we will pay you in huckleberry pies," said Mrs. Jo, knowing Silas's weak point. From Wordnik.com. [Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys] Reference
Turns out, in early 20th-century slang, a "huckleberry" was the perfect person for a given job. From Wordnik.com. [Does the Job Perfectly: A Huckleberry of a Petite Sirah] Reference
Matt Cassel as his target (or as he calls it, his "huckleberry"), and I suppose that's a step up. From Wordnik.com. Reference
America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
A close-up here with the huckleberry cobbler dessert. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2009] Reference
Been force to go to de fish pond en de huckleberry patch. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Make us wear huckleberry masks and, uh, huckleberry masks. From Wordnik.com. [Grotesque] Reference
The best part of the meal was a piece of huckleberry pie. From Wordnik.com. [2000-09-18 6:17 am] Reference
Try to repair that in your dystasis tank, huckleberry balls!. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
"Squar 'ninety tens, my huckleberry, an' all won fa'r, you bet.". From Wordnik.com. [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference
Pine Camp was in the midst of a vast huckleberry country, and at the. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
If you can, then try the lemon-buttermilk pudding with huckleberry sauce. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
It was a delicious wild berry that grows here, known as the red huckleberry. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The nags were of the huckleberry or flea-bitten variety, -- a freckled white. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
We both really enjoyed the fish and have just started on the huckleberry jelly. From Wordnik.com. [miss-k2 Diary Entry] Reference
Among the items on the menu, crab cakes, creamed spinach and huckleberry cobbler. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2009] Reference
Droopy cedars, skirted with huckleberry underbrush, lined both sides of the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [POSEY'S POND] Reference
There is also a little blueberry that the men say is the Rocky Mountain huckleberry. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference
Our entire brigade was now halted in a huckleberry pasture, on the edge of some woods. From Wordnik.com. [History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861] Reference
There was blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and little Maria with her summerset bangs. From Wordnik.com. [Summerset Bangs from Oldtown] Reference
And he was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party or a search for chestnuts or grapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
And I've got a city editor who has a temper like a bear with a sore nose in huckleberry time. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] Reference
They crossed a marshy place and on either side of the trail huckleberry bushes grew head high. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Juniper, huckleberry, and salal bushes crowded the trunks, but even they looked worn and ragged. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
"A few apples we had in the cellar," added her mother, "an 'a huckleberry pie, an' buttermilk --". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
HILL: Mrs. Obama decided on the Wilson china, a close-up here with the huckleberry cobbler dessert. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2009] Reference
I built a little fire for myself out of a huckleberry-bush, and sat down there on the snow to write. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
We're after the same rainbow's end, waiting, round the bend, my huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrating The Johnny Mercer Centennial] Reference
The huckleberry is one of the many beautiful shrubs which we admire for its delicate leaves and colors. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Occasionally they had huckleberry "slap-jacks," also a favorite dish, for breakfast; not often, however, as flour was scarce. From Wordnik.com. [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference
This was of course profound hypocrisy; but "gorming" meant some bad quality, and any might be safely predicated of our huckleberry pair. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
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