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...sh, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for naught; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.” The thing is that,...

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...ned them at the table with a sectioned Tupperware bowl of fresh fruits and melons. "It is. I don't care if it's my mother who's dishing." "Pineapple, ...

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...e plate of pasta, and a fresh garden salad with cherry tomatoes. For dessert: melons, grapes, cheese and a bottle of Chianti. And for an added touch...

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... drivers rode on top of the trucks, munching their way through a cargo of melons on its way to market. The dog felt hunger pangs again and edged caut...

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... expression tells me he’s caught up in his own fantasy. “You start at the melons or in your case, grapes. You work your way down the aisles to the c...

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...i, cabbage, cantaloupe, eggplant, garlic, grapefruit, green leafy vegetables, melons, peas, prunes, raisins, squash, and sweet potatoes. 17. Includ...

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...culture: coconuts, copra; subsistence crops of roots and tubers, vegetables, melons, bananas; pigs, chickens; domestic fishing Fishing: catch 24,212 m...

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... of trees which my selfe have planted in mine Orchard, or the faire muske-melons I have set in my garden.' According to Anacharsis his opinion, 'The... ... ayre againe or leave leave to drinke Wine, or lye with your Wife or eate melons, it is much if you fall not into some relapse or new misery. The gr... .... I am not over-much or greedily desirous of sallets or of fruits, except melons. My father hated all manner of sawces; I love them all. Over- much e...

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...thing but take his tem- perature and read the Churchman. Oh, and cultivate melons— that was his hobby. Not vulgar, out-of-door melons—his were grown u... ...rounded by blinking battalions of green- houses. And in nearly all of them melons were grown—early melons and late, French, English, domestic—dwarf me... ...t used to strike me sometimes that old Lenman was just like one of his own melons—the pale-fleshed English kind. His life, apathetic and motionless, h... ... through his vanity. I flattered him, feigned a passionate interest in his melons. And he was taken in, and used to discourse on them by the hour. On ... ...as completed by the fact that he couldn’t eat as much as a mouthful of his melons—had lived for years on buttermilk and toast. ‘But, after all, it’s m... ...lly. As if I’d ever been able to indulge any of mine! On the keep of those melons Kate and I could have lived like gods…. “One day toward the end of t... ...y one melon in the ice-box I could be fairly sure it was the one I wanted. Melons didn’t lie around loose in that house— every one was known, numbered...

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... with her broad, broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with hi... ..., and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodb... ... stop. Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up. He we... ...to Khama’s Country, and from Khama’s Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-gr... ... rock again, and went on, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up, till ...

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...d off somewhat discomposed to make a breakfast off red mullets and grapes, melons, pome- granates, and Smyrna wine, at a dirty little comfortable inn,... ...ts along the shore. There were camels unloading at one wharf, and piles of melons much bigger than the Gibraltar cannon-balls at another. It was the f... ...the Universities. When fresh they are not bet- ter than elsewhere; but the melons are of admirable flavour, and so large, that Cinderella might almost... ...ar him, dozing, or sprawling, in the boats, or list- lessly munching water-melons. Along the coffee-houses of the quay sat hundreds more, with no bet...

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...men.” “The Englishmen and the watermelons just now are about the same thing,” Percy Beaumont observed, wiping his dripping forehead. “Ah, well, we’ll ...

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...genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on gua...

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...anges, tinged, here and there, berry-brown; and 225 Melville great, jolly melons, which rolled about in very portliness. Such a heap! All ruddy, ripe... ...ultivation. Sweet pota- toes, Indian turnips, and yams were growing; also melons, a few pine-apples, and other fruits. Still more pleasing was the si... ...ottle. It was spicy sherry; and we drank out of the halves of fresh citron melons. Delectable goblets! The wine was a purchase from, the French in Tah...

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...d, and Mowgli laughed behind his hand. “In those days there was no corn or melons or pepper or sugar-cane, nor were there any little huts such as ye h... ...e waits. Presently comes a farmer saying he will plant cucumbers here, and melons there, in the new land that the river has given him. He feels the go...

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...n natural ap- petite; after this manner do our physicians proceed, who eat melons and drink iced wines, whilst they confine their pa- tients to syrups... ...walk abroad and take the air, to drink wine, to lie with your wife, to eat melons, ’tis odds you relapse into some new distemper. The stone has this p... ...g us herself. I am not excessively fond either of salads or fruits, except melons. My father hated all sorts of sauces; I love them all. Eating too mu...

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...ttles of twelve different wines, regarded as exquisite; also were devoured melons, “pates au jus romanum,” and a fillet of beef with mushroom sauce. M...

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... pastime of the boys of Dawson’s Land ing was to steal apples, peaches, and melons from the farmer’s fruit wagons—mainly on account of the risk they ...

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...about new feeds for sheep, and dam nonsense about grow- ing such things as melons, fiddle-faddle, for ‘em. Robert’s a beginner. What he knows, I taugh... ...aste, as the farmer bitterly supposed. He was looking at some immense seed-melons in his garden, lying about in morning sun- shine—a new feed for shee...

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...s air—Swallows, Rooks, and Stares; As well as earth—Vines, Roses, Nettles, Melons, Mushrooms, Pinks, Gilliflowers, and many millions Of other plants, ...