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Definition of Oxhearts
1. oxheart [n] - See also: oxheart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxhearts
Literary usage of Oxhearts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"The Royal Anns and the black oxhearts were too large, there were too many .of them
on the young trees for less than a regiment to conquer. ..."
2. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1895)
"... himself once more, a school-boy hand in hand with Esther, that happy day when
she brought him a bunch of black oxhearts in her little dirty pocket. ..."
3. Poetical Works by Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell (1895)
"... And pulled the pulpy oxhearts, while aloof Dappled with noonday, under simmering
leaves, An oriole clattered and the robins shrilled, Denouncing me an ..."
4. The Writings of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"Dappled with noonday, under simmering leaves, And pulled the pulpy oxhearts,
while aloof An oriole clattered and the robins shrilled, Denouncing me an alien ..."
5. Notes on the Life of Noah Webster by Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford, Fowler Ford, Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel (1912)
"The cherries and peaches were particularly fine, and the oxhearts and the white
hearts, the honey dews and the black hearts, ..."
6. Farmingby Richard Kendall Munkittrick by Richard Kendall Munkittrick (1891)
"... he not only doesn't pick any twigs, but leaves the cherry stems on the tree,
carefully plucking the ^ luscious oxhearts therefrom. ..."
7. The Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"Dappled with noonday, under simmering leaves, And pulled the pulpy oxhearts,
while aloof An oriole clattered and the robins shrilled, ..."
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