Potatoes

Examples

• I'd dig the ground and grow potatoes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The only potatoes we sold were to our own mess. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Their place can be taken by beans, peas, potatoes, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The potatoes had to be hurried, not to keep the asparagus waiting, and were not done at the last. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• For dinner we had a woodcock with souffl?potatoes and pur閑 de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• After the peanuts have reached their full growth, they are dug up very much in the same way as potatoes, a machine potato digger now being extensively used for this purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was potatoes and things that are fried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The polite and attentive stranger would desire, say, to consult her inclinations on the subject of potatoes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But I wish it grew more potatoes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There was the meat-pie of which the youth had spoken so feelingly, and there were, moreover, a steak, and a dish of potatoes, and a pot of porter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The fish were small and bony, and the potatoes were a little burnt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In 1853 more than three-quarters of the potatoes raised were permitted to rot in the ground, or had to be thrown away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You have two sorts of potatoes, fed on the same soil. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Are you a good judge of potatoes and onions? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mealy Potatoes uprose once, and rebelled against my being so distinguished; but Mick Walker settled him in no time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It will bake pies, cake, biscuit, potatoes, roast meats, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In one small apartment there were two barrels of potatoes and a third one nearly empty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Two mutton-chops, three potatoes, some split peas, a little flour, two ounces of butter, a pinch of salt, and all this black pepper. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The land which is fit for potatoes, is fit for almost every other useful vegetable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Maggy picked up very few potatoes and a great quantity of mud; but they were all recovered, and deposited in the basket. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Their cultivation degenerated more and more into a growing of potatoes and a feeding of pigs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I performed all the labor of breaking up the ground while the other officers planted the potatoes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You know when we came here we found fields of potatoes the Austrians had planted. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• As he wouldn't go away, and shocked the company very much, our overseer sent him out a pound of potatoes and half a pint of oatmeal. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It consisted in Indian corn, yams, potatoes, bananas, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I was glad when they left, as I was cramped, and the potatoes were rotten that had been in the barrel and violently offensive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I wasn't brought up on porridge, like MacWhirter, or on potatoes, like old O'Dowd. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Have you dug up the potatoes and other roots? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Potatoes, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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