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For two days they had been boiling the small gray bayberries that Kit and Judith had gathered in the fields, and Rachel had skimmed off the thick greenish tallow.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

She still had his cake to bake, and candles to make from the waxy bayberries that grew near the shore, and last but not least his presents to arrange.

From The Cheerful Cricket and Others by Marks, Jeannette Augustus

A hardy Warbler which, like the Tree Swallow, can substitute bayberries for insects.

From What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season by Chapman, Frank M.

Bayberry wax was a standard farm production wherever bayberries grew, and was advertised in New England papers until this century.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Elmira picked bayberries, too, and sold 'em to the shoemaker for tallow; she sold a lot in Dale.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins