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The Squirrels must have worked this out long ago, for they surely know the good ones; and all through late summer they are at work gathering them for winter use in place of the pine-nuts.

From Wild Animals at Home by Seton, Ernest Thompson

"Why can't you eat pine-nuts?" he cried; "why, why, why?"

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James

Ooh, ooh, ooh," sobbed Dolly; "ooh, Goosie, I can't—can't eat pine-nuts, Goosie!

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James

But he had already gone through the crisis; to Dolly's heart-rending cry upon the dietary inadequacy of pine-nuts, he had yielded his whole being in supreme sacrifice.

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James

A cavity, breast high, half filled with skeleton leaves and pine-nuts, showed that it had formerly been a squirrel's hoard, but for some reason had been deserted.

From A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready by Harte, Bret