Vegetables

Examples

• Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And Mr Sloppy, whenever you come to my house, be sure you never go away without having had a good dinner of meat, beer, vegetables, and pudding. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I gave him a dose of syrup of buckthorn, and put him on a diet of pot-liquor and vegetables till further orders. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Every morning I had two large baskets of vegetables from the Detroit market loaded in the mail-car and sent to Port Huron, where the boy would take them to the store. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They cultivated n umerous vegetables, grains, fruits, and flowers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The constant replenishing of this large quantity is necessary to life, and a considerable amount of the necessary supply is furnished by foods, particularly the fruits and vegetables. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They had _no cultivation_ of grain or vegetables of any sort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On these the natives raise melons, cucumbers and other vegetables which need much water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yes, I know 'twas the same day; for she said, 'I be going to see him, Christian; so I shall not want any vegetables brought in for dinner. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The other vegetables are in the same proportion; but this I leave to the reader's imagination. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• A field overgrown with briars and brambles, may frequently produce as great a quantity of vegetables as the best cultivated vineyard or corn field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Will you take any other vegetables? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The larger part of many of our foods is composed of water; more than half of the weight of the meat we eat is made up of water; and vegetables are often more than nine tenths water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He brought me some chops, and vegetables, and took the covers off in such a bouncing manner that I was afraid I must have given him some offence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is said that on a single night in a small district in Florida, fruits and vegetables were thus saved to the amount of more than $100,000. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Although the foods which we eat are of widely different character, such as fruits, vegetables, cereals, oils, meats, eggs, milk, cheese, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The body demands a daily ration of the three classes of food stuffs, but it is for us to determine from what meats, vegetables, fruits, cereals, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The practice of preserving roots, vegetables, and plants by covering them with earth or by placing them in cellars, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• From the earliest times even down to the present day man’s food has been the same--flesh, fish, cereals, fruits and vegetables. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Also I enjoyed luscious fruits and vegetables, but not a single article of food which was exactly similar to anything on Earth. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The governor, Sherman says, was careful to carry away even his garden vegetables, while he left the archives of the State to fall into our hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Vegetables and both shade and fruit trees are being grown in districts where dry farming is practiced. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their guns furnished meat, and the cultivation of a very limited amount of the soil, their bread and vegetables. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Corn, wheat, rye, in fact all cereals and grains, potatoes, and most vegetables are rich in carbohydrates; as are also sugar, molasses, honey, and maple sirup. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In 1853 at Vancouver vegetables were a little lower. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He began to grow fine fruits and vegetables and flowers, and his farm and gardens and hothouses became celebrated all over England. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Grains, such as wheat, barley, rye and oats, were raised, a variety of fruits and vegetables, and great attention paid to the breeding of stock. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Of the vegetables, beans provide the greatest nourishment at the least cost, and to a large extent may be substituted for meat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Now for my part, I request that I may find nothing on your table to-morrow, but fish, flesh, fowl, vegetables, pastry, fruit and good wine. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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