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Usage examples of peanuts.

She was talking about engaging him to do a twenty-four-hour-a-day job for peanuts--no, not even for peanuts, probably for a couple of abrazos, some sacks filled with illegal deer meat, and a bag of beans.

Then I tossed him peanuts, throwing them first far away, then nearer and nearer till he would come to my window-sill.

It was most interesting, while he sat on my window-sill eating peanuts, to see the nose and eyes of another squirrel peering over the crotch of the nearest tree, watching the proceedings from his hiding place.

The moment he was gone, out would come a squirrel--sometimes two or three from their concealment--and carry off all the peanuts that remained.

If he returned unexpectedly and caught one of the intruders, there was always a furious chase and a deal of scolding and squirrel jabber before peace was restored and the peanuts eaten.

He searched the tree over, went to his other hiding places, came back, counted his peanuts, then searched the ground beneath, thinking, no doubt, the wind must have blown them out--all this before he had tasted a peanut of those that remained.

Back in Court I was cross-examining that notable grass, Peanuts Molloy, a skinnier, more furtive edition of Jim Timson.

What did you think was the most remarkable piece of evidence given by the witness Peanuts Molloy?

He stood up, stuffing the peanuts into a pocket of his forestgreen jumpsuit, which had been tailored for a larger man and hung on him like a parachute snagged on tree branches.

Ben tore the bag out of his hands and then tried very hard to eat the peanuts slowly.

Those peanuts you gave me, I ate them here, but I tasted them in another time.

Chattanooga and the rest of the family is laying low, working feverishly on a formula to convert peanuts into Swiss francs.

After that he bought a quart of peanuts, two bananas and a piece of mince-pie, and having disposed of all these he felt hungry no longer.

He had from three to six meals a day and an unlimited amount of pie and peanuts besides, but after all he was not particularly happy.

As he passed a fruit stand kept by an old woman, he slyly snatched a handful of peanuts which he ate as he went on.