Citations:acorns

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English citations of acorns

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  • 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
    "Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.
    My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
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