You can shake on a little sumach, which is here the sour relative of our roadside sumac, plus salt and a little pepper to make a seasoning salt. From Wordnik.com. [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference
"These are very fine sumach bobs!" said Robert Robin. From Wordnik.com. [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference
"I found a stone in my sumach bob!" shouted little Sheldon. From Wordnik.com. [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference
There are fairy dusters hanging from the sumach as you pass. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919] Reference
Olives and sumach form the principal crops of the landholder. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Tom proudly marched into a thick clump of sumach bushes and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
When all the robins had eaten as many sumach bobs as they cared for. From Wordnik.com. [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference
She stooped for a spray of scarlet sumach one early autumn afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Hill, poison-ivy berries near Big Flats, and sumach bobs on the road to. From Wordnik.com. [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference
Here were many sumach bushes with their fernlike leaves and bright red bobs. From Wordnik.com. [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference
Gather sumach leaves in the summer, and spread them in the sun a few days to dry. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I said I would come before the scarlet sumach should spring again on the plains; and. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
In the middle she had placed a great bunch of scarlet berries and wild sumach leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
The leaves are very long and the trees resemble the stag horn sumach, except that they are distinctly. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
Half sheltered by a clump of sumach sat a woman upon a bit of driftwood and flung pebbles in the lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
They plunged into the narrow path between the tall sumach bushes, and were at once hidden in the gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
Of the gaiety of autumn, only the red bunches of the sumach were left as a parting present to welcome winter in. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
In front of her between the sumach and the holly trees was an open space, which might lead somewhere toward home. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
I put out my hands toward a clump of sumach — I was not cold, but its brilliant warmth lured me as does a glowing fire. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
But an application every few hours keeps down the intolerable itching, which is the most annoying feature of sumach poisoning. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
It may be procured also from several other sources, such as oak, horse chestnut, sumach, and cinchona barks, catechu, kino, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The brilliant autumnal tints of the sassafras, pepperidge, blue beech, viburnum, juneberry and sumach are strikingly attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
The glory of the maple and the sumach had departed, and a dingy russet brown had succeeded the more brilliant tints of early autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence] Reference
Robert Robin perched on a sumach limb, and straightened his feathers, then he sat up very much as if he were about to sing, and said. From Wordnik.com. [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference
By adding to the dye-bath small quantities of other dye-woods, fustic, peach wood, sumach, etc., greys of various shades are obtained. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
"The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Robbie Gennet: Afghanistan's Biofuel Revolution] Reference
Three minutes later the old man and his sons, well armed, were up the hill, and just entering the sumach path on tiptoe, their weapons in their hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
The woods in the upper part of Ohio, nearest the lake, are tolerably open, and occasionally interspersed with sumach and sassafras: the soil somewhat sandy. From Wordnik.com. [A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America] Reference
In a dusky recess he saw the crimson sumach flaring. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
Stockade consisted in giving a handful of sumach berries to each of those complaining of scurvy. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 3] Reference
He walked briskly along the path through the sassafras and sumach bushes, on which the rain-drops still clung. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
When he saw the chief's scarlet mantle mingling with the scarlet of the sumach leaves, the jarl's son gave a great leap forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference
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