Gold of itself seems to have the puckering quality of a green persimmon.
"Quiet Talks on Service"
S. D. Gordon
When all were sleeping, he stole to the persimmon-tree and was elated to find his treasure where he had slightly buried it.
"Taken Alive"
E. P. Roe
Straw rain-cloaks hanging to dry dripped under all the eaves, our paper cloaks were sodden, our dripping horses steamed, and thus we slid down a steep descent into the hamlet of Kiriishi, thirty-one houses clustered under persimmon trees under a wooded hillside, all standing in a quagmire, and so abject and filthy that one could not ask for five minutes' shelter in any one of them.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)