He sat under the beechnut-tree watching the attic window till the eastern sky above the mountains began to take on a grayish cast.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben
"I don't suppose you ever ate a chestnut or a fat hickory nut or a sweet beechnut," said she softly.
"The-Burgess-Animal-Book-for-Children"
Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
But without the agency of the birds and the squirrels, how are the heavy nuts, such as the chestnut, beechnut, acorn, butternut, and the like, to be scattered?
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs