32 Verbs to Use for the Word melon

Sometimes the end has a point which does not sting, as in the following quatrain of an Arabic poet: "When I sent you my melons, you cried out with scorn, They ought to be heavy and wrinkled and yellow; When I offered myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted, and called me an ugly old fellow.

Commiserating with the homeless ones, we divided a few keráns among them, in return for which they brought us large water-melons (for which Nasirabád is celebrated), deliciously flavoured, and as cold as ice.

The melons were the infidels which would be cut to pieces, even as a knife cuts a melon.

Have you eaten many melons?

We passed his place this morning and wondered how he could raise such enormous melons.

He did but the man who owned the place saw me just as I got the melon and whipped us and told us if we hollered he would kill us.

"Mr. Brayley says he will sell his melons for fifteen cents each.

Mark had, of course, abandoned the idea of continuing to cultivate his melons, or any other vegetables, on the Summit, or he never would have driven his hogs there.

In this part I found different fruits; and particularly I found melons upon the ground, in great abundance, and grapes upon the trees: the vines, indeed, had spread over the trees, and the clusters of grapes were now just in their prime, very ripe and rich.

" "Who grows such fine, juicy melons and keeps such a nice, amiable pet dog," laughed Jack, roaring at the recollection of the piratical expedition of which the island dweller had told the boys.

In one picture he grins broadly and holds a bitten melon in his hand.

Ah'm go'n' a' raise a hund'ed thousan' yellow-laiged pullets; an' theh's a staihway down to th' watah whah Ah kin tie up mah ole catfish boat, an' a monst'ous big gyahden whah Ah kin keep mah fie'ce look on them mush an' watah melons.

Could he only succeed in obtaining two or three hundred melons, he felt that a great deal would be done in providing the means of checking any disposition to scurvy that might appear in Bob or himself.

On payment of ten cents any person had the privilege of picking a melon.

Creysse, by the Dordogne, produces melons in abundance, which are brought to Roc-Amadour by the cartload, and sold for two or three sous apiece.

He had received some good melons.

The rough skin of the cantaloupe should be thoroughly scrubbed with a vegetable brush, then rinsed and wiped, after which bury the melon in broken ice till serving time; divide into eighths or sixteenths, remove the seeds, reconstruct the melon, and serve surrounded with ice, on a folded napkin, or arranged on a bed of grape leaves.

The fruit hangs in a cluster at the crown of the tree, green and yellow, resembling badly shaped melons.

Nor was this all; Mark making a discovery about this time, that afforded him almost as, much happiness as when he first saw his melons in leaf.

An hour of daylight remaining, Mark went up to the Summit to select a few melons, and to take a look at the state of the plantations and gardens.

The new railroad will be finished by the middle of summer, and I can ship the melons North, and get a good price for them.

He hangs in shades the orange bright Like golden lamps in a green night, And does in the pomegranates close Jewels more rich than Ormus shows: He makes the figs our mouths to meet, And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice!

Instead of "Do let me send you some more of this mock turtle""Another patty""Sir, some of this trifle," "I must insist upon your trying this nice melon;" The language of hospitality should rather run thus:"Shall

WATERMELONS Use only those melons that are perfectly ripe.

A border of any other kind of small fruit, arranged round the melon, has a pretty effect, the colour the former contrasting nicely with the melon.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  melon