peach-stone

The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants.

Representative Men 2006

The fourth day is set apart for the peach-stone game.

Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians Elias Johnson

Now in Ceylon, the central district, answering to this peach-stone, constitutes a fierce little Liliputian kingdom, quite independent, through many centuries, of the lazy belt, the peach-flesh, which swathes and enfolds it, and perfectly distinct by the character and origin of its population.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

The reader now understands why we described the Ceylonese man as a tiger-cat in his noblest division: for, after all, these dangerous gentlemen in the peach-stone are a more promising race than the silky and nerveless population surrounding them.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

The curate nosed it out like a slot-hound; he paced the track himself from the scrub to the peach-tree, and stood under this last gazing to its top, from there to its roots; he shook his head many times, stroked his chin a few: then with a broken cry he made a pounce and picked up -- a peach-stone!

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

The peach-stone is called Kandy, and the people Kandyans.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

Up to this time, when Ceylon passed under our flag, it is to be observed that no progress whatever, not the least, had been made in mastering the peach-stone, that old central nuisance of the island.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

For many months Rossignol continued to draw large audiences to hear his imitation of birds, &c., but one fatal day it was discovered that the sounds were produced by an instrument -- probably a pierced peach-stone -- which he concealed in his mouth, and after that no one cared to hear him, and he died in great poverty a few years later.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

A crinkled peach-stone, then – that is actuality: of little worth in itself (though it contains, to be sure, a small kernel), but necessary as a support, a skeleton, upon which the two halves of the fruit can hang.

Try Anything Twice 1938

Beneath her she saw the cobble-stones all scratched and marred with gray bruises from the horses 'hoofs, a faded purple ribbon dropped from the mandolin of a minstrel, three slightly imperfect wassails and a trencher with a nick on the rim, all that had not been used of the wild boar at last night's feast, a peach-stone like

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917