413 examples of melons in sentences

The country has trees, vines, figs, cacti, dates, oranges, lemons, apples, apricots, melons, and olives.

" "What do you charge for melons, Mr. McNutt?" inquired Louise.

" "Then every time you eat one of your own melons you eat fifty cents.

If you were eating one of Mr. Brayley's melons you would only eat fifteen cents.

They had thought inducing the agent to rob his own patch of a few melons, while under the delusion that they belonged to his enemy Brayley, a bit of harmless fun; but here was the vindictive fellow actually destroying his own property by the wholesale.

The chief crops were those of wheat, barley, beans, peas, lentils, vetches, lupines, clover, rice, indigo, cotton, lettuce, flax, hemp, cumin, coriander, poppy, melons, cucumbers, onions, and leeks.

About two o'clock, P.M., we cut some of the water and musk-melons presented by Dr. Wharton, and found them delicious.

Their subsistence is wheat, corn, melons, pumpkins, vegetables, and the wild fruits.

By the industry of a German gardener with two Mexican assistants, we soon produced all vegetables, melons, etc., that we required, and many a weary traveler remembers, or ought to remember, the hospitalities of Tubac.

5; iv. 29; vi. 14; "they did eat fish freely, and cucumbers, and melons, and leeks, and onions, and garlic."

From the court I could see the Sisters' little garden, where flowers and melons and potherbs were curiously mixed without the gardener's systematic art, which is so often a deadly thing to beauty; and nasturtiums climbing the weedy walls from rough deal boxes were basking in the steady glow of afternoon sun, which seemed to me so intensely brilliant because I was in the dark shadow.

Besides, these melons seem to wish to know The reason why they are neglected so; And ask if yonder village holds its feast And thou awhile art there detained a guest, While all the flowery tribes make sad complaint.

Fruit was very abundantgrapes, ripe figs, peaches and melons were abundant, and for a trifle one could purchase a sumptuous banquet.

We had a watermelon patch and sometimes sold Dr. Palmer melons.

Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Randall and others sent me yesterday a dozen large peaches, two melons, a lot of shell-beans and tomatoes, a dish of blackberries and some fried corn-cakesnot an atom of the whole of which shall I touch, taste, handle, or smell; so you need not fear my killing myself.

One woman was weaving a cloth, another was making a hammock; others made ready melons and other vegetables and cooked them over tiny fires.

They planted patches of mandioc, maize, sugarcane, rice, beans, squashes, pineapples, bananas, lemons, oranges, melons, peppers; and various purely native fruits and vegetables, such as the kniaboa vegetable-fruit growing on the branches of a high bush which is cooked with meat.

BRINK, CAROL RYRIE. Magical melons, more stories about Caddie Woodlawn.

Melons in plenty lay on the ground, and clusters of grapes, ripe and very rich, spread over the trees.

Mrs. Bishop (Isabella Bird) eloquently describes (II, 135-136) the attachment to her of a Persian horse, and incidentally suggests the philosophy of the matter in one sentence: "To him I am an embodiment of melons, cucumbers, grapes, pears, peaches, biscuits, and sugar, with a good deal of petting and ear-rubbing thrown in."

Indian corn was still the leading crop; but melons, pumpkins, and the like were grown, and there were many thriving orchards; while tobacco cultivation was becoming of much importance.

The kind rancher had visited us the night before and he had told us to help ourselves to fruit, melons, alfalfa.

As Nehemiah leaves the city by the Fish Gate, he meets donkeys and mules bringing in sheaves of corn, or laden with paniers containing figs, and grapes, and melons; he meets men laden with all kinds of burdens, and women bringing in the country produce that they may sell it in the streets of Jerusalem.

A little blind village nestled there, with mud-brick huts, a watch-tower and a tiny minaret; date-grounds and fields of corn, melons, and other vegetables spread a green fringe among the groves.

I have more fruit trees and kitchen garden than you have any thought of; and, I have good melons and apples of my own growth.

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