" Speaking of cherries, it may be mentioned that the awkwardness of eating them on account of their stones, has given rise to sundry proverbs, as the following: "Eat peas with the king, and cherries with the beggar," and: "Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.

Miss Diana Chillingworth was sitting in the old-fashioned porch of her old-fashioned house which opened into an old-fashioned garden in one of the suburbs of Marlborough, shelling peas.

Time.15 minutes to boil the peas, when they are full grown.

"Well, she'll need suthin' to keep her strength up all the more now she ain't got nuthin' to support her;" and, gathering peas and pods into her apron with a mighty sweep of her arm, she marched into her kitchen in a fever of sympathetic indignation and evolved a dinner which was a masterpiece of culinary skill.

Pulled fodder, picked peas and tended to the cow pen.

If he is the great man he thinks himself, all this cannot hurt him: it is like throwing peas against a rock.'

Have ready some green peas, put these on a dish, and place the lamb on the top of these.

Fry the vegetables for 10 minutes in a little butter or dripping, previously cutting them up in small pieces; pour the water on them, and when boiling add the peas.

He was no hand at active play: but was notorious for his skill in constructing guns for shooting peas and arrows, and other mechanical contrivances.

Such a method will seem rather revolutionary to those who have been accustomed to soak peas over night, but a single trial is all that is needed to convince the most sceptical.

The pea was well known to the Romans, and, probably, was introduced to Britain at an early period; for we find peas mentioned by Lydgate, a poet of the 15th century, as being hawked in London.

Use split peas, soak overnight, and prepare according to recipe given for lentil soup.

TranslationOf this kind of art, was his, who, standing at a certain distance, could continually, without missing, stick a small pea upon the point of a needle; which when Alexander had witnessed, he ordered him a bushel of that grain for his trouble, a reward quite adequate to such an exploit.

I kiss'd you oft and gave you white peas; Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?

On each side of that which forms what we call the nose, a small hole or nook is perceived, capable of containing a pea; but does not penetrate deep, and is surrounded with black filaments, sometimes like eye-brows and eyelashes, so that the nut on that side resembles an ape or a hare.

"And you brought me yesterday those detestable peas!"

Alfred Putz (A); 13Jun61; R277428. Sowing sweet peas outdoors.

Serve with mint sauce and a fresh salad, and for vegetables send peas, spinach, or cauliflowers to table with it.

" He tells of the use of iron pots, fireplaces with rods used to hold the pots above the fire for cooking peas, rice, vegetables, meats, etc.; the home-made coffee from meal, spring and well water, tanning rawhide for leather, spinning of thread from cotton and the weaving looms.

Then Octavia fired peas out of a little popgun twice, and this was meant as a long farewell to the land.

He had an intuitive knowledge of such things, seemed to be guided by inner promptings as to which bowl should hold the lavender sweet peas and which the pink ones.

Do you know the wild partridge-pea of the pine barrens, that scatters its seeds with a faint report when the pods are touched?

Hanging basket of pink and lavender sweet peas and smilax over the table, with smilax reaching to the corners of the table and caught with pink and lavender tulle bows.

This is evident from his son's conversation; during the pause which invariably precedes it I should undoubtedly hear the father-bird (if he would only speak upwhich he doesn't) quavering, "I'm not sure, my boy, I'm not sure, but I've a notion that, this time, he's left the pea under the middle thimbleeh?" On which the young scoundrel, knowing well that it is elsewhere, pipes out, "There it is, Fa-ther, there it is, Fa-ther!"

And thus nearly all we could learn about George Eliot was that she loved to bask in the sun and liked green peas.