honey-locust

A spume of honey-locust pulp floated away downstream.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

A spume of honey-locust pulp floated away downstream.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

"But why is it called honey-locust?" asked Malcolm.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

They live chiefly upon fish and the fruit of the algarroba, a species of mesquit or honey-locust, but will eat anything that is not poisonous, even rats and grasshoppers.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The ash, the hackberry, the oaks, the linden, the locusts on the hill and the solitary old honey-locust down by the river's brink are as yet unresponsive to the smiles of spring.

Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

The stir of bees, the scent of honey-locust just opening, drifted in, and the slow solemn clangor of church bells, and lilts and flutings and calls and whistlings from the tree-tops.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

And on a vagrant air, a gipsy air, the scent of the honey-locust.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

The Judas-tree was red, the dogwood white, the honey-locust a breath from Eden.

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Then a great hoarse rumble of voice would cap the rest, telling some loose story, then the laughter would follow – enough, it seemed, to make the roof shake – and all the time the hum of the bees in the honey-locust outside went on.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

The tavern was a brick building abounding in sharp slants of roof, and dimmed in outline by a spreading cloud of new-leaved branches, and there was one great honey-locust which was a marvel to be seen, and hummed with bees with a mighty drone as of all the spinning-wheels in the country, and the sweetness of it blew down upon one passing under, like a wind of breath.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900