Use "persimmon" in a sentence

1. ―The sticks, gal, the sticks…‖ Elmer‘s request broke the spell and Elise handed over an eight-inch length of native persimmon tree cut that morning, its bark carefully peeled and split from one end to within an inch of the other

2. A second persimmon branch secured the other and in one hack the proud appaloosa colt was relieved of his manhood

3. That one in particular used to be Persimmon Mountain, elevation twenty-five hundred feet

4. , two-story house in Jalalabad had a balcony overlooking a large, walled garden with apple and persimmon trees

5. In the midst of this hell, seated erect and proper, well dressed in velveteen jerkin, persimmon bow tie, and bottle-green booties, was, of course, Shelley Capon