Word Finder - huckleberry

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A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.

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A shrub growing this fruit.

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A small amount, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.

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A person of little consequence.

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The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.

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I'm your huckleberry.

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To pick huckleberries.

Huckleberry, blackberry and raspberry bushes are common in the north sections.

There is also a little blueberry that the men say is the Rocky Mountain huckleberry.

All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all the cranberry meadows are raked into the city.

Obviously, no one is suggesting that comic books are on par with literary classics like Black Beauty, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or Charlotte's Web.

An evergreen creeping shrub in the same family as Huckleberry and Foxberry.

It is available in black, dark huckleberry and eclipse blue.

As an example, she cites Mark Twain's stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as good role-playing examples.

SparkNotes offers free online study guides for people in search of help understanding classic texts such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain or The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A Good Book - Bring along a great road trip novel, like Jack Kerouac's On The Road or even Mark Twain's river road trip classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to get you in the mood.

They are expecting another child in 2009 to accompany son William Huckleberry Paisley.

He is married and has three children named Jessie, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry.

Finish with a luscious pear soufflé or huckleberry cobbler.

Among the shrubs and vines are the blackberry, black and red raspberry, gooseberry, huckleberry, hazel and grape.

Mark Twain's boyhood was spent at Hannibal, which is the setting of Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer; Hannibal Cave, described in Tom Sawyer, extends for miles beneath the river and its bluffs.

In 1875 he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the sequel to which, Huckleberry Finn, did not appear until 1884.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the next of his books, was published (in 1884) by a New York firm in which the author was chief partner.

But such Huckleberry Finn is, beyond all question; it is a story of very varied interest, now comic, now almost tragic, frequently poetic, unfailingly truthful, although not always sustained at its highest level.

The sandy lands were in part burnt over by Indians, and there was a growth of scrub oak, aspens and huckleberry bushes.

Among indigenous shrubs and vines are the hazel, blackberry, gooseberry, whortleberry, huckleberry, grape and cranberry.

Further ahead were some Gooseberry and Huckleberry bushes void of fruit.

Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.

Despite its problematic aspects, however, " Huckleberry Finn " is one of the truly indispensable classics of the American canon.

I'm 14 n luv to read, especially classics like Huckleberry finn and I am not a social outcast!

I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.

But the books in which his humour is broadly displayed, the travels and the sketches, are not really so significant of his power as the three novels of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson, wherein we have preserved a vanished civilization, peopled with typical figures, and presented with inexorable veracity.

The blackberry, black raspberry, huckleberry, blueberry, wild ginger and ginseng are widely distributed.

Atlantic, Burlington, Camden and Salem counties are the great centres for strawberries; Atlantic, Cumberland and Salem counties lead in grape-growing; and a large huckleberry crop is yearly gathered in " the Pines."