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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

So they looked and found plenty of green for wreaths, and some bayberries like coral, and some holly, besides, by the ruins of the deserted house that had burned down years before they were born.

From Half-Past Seven Stories by Anderson, Robert Gordon

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

Fifthly, a small pot of diatesseron, composed of gentian, myrrh, bayberries, and round aristolochia.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison