cucumber-frame love

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  • She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.

    Alice in Wonderland 2003

  • They should be put round the side of a rather large pot in sandy peat; the warmth, shade, and moisture of a cucumber-frame will cause them to root quickly, when they should be potted off singly, so as to make sturdy plants before the winter sets in, and such young stock ought to be wintered in

    Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

  • At all events the animal, which had never been known before to do more than proceed at a leisurely walk, rushed at frantic speed into the garden, and tossed my wife's mother into a cucumber-frame.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 Various

  • The day being very fine, she was glad to come out of the chariot, which smelt (I had my head in it all this time) like a stable put under a cucumber-frame.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • The Mafia, rising from the shadow of the cucumber-frame, laughed long, though with caution.

    The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907

  • Slip behind that cucumber-frame and hide, and let us see who it is.

    The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907

  • Her back was towards the cucumber-frame and the bushes, and her eyes were fixed on her mirror.

    The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907

  • The girls made a swift, but silent, dash for the shadow of the cucumber-frame, and concealed themselves only just in time.

    The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907

  • She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.

    The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

  • She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.

    Alice's Adventures In Wonderland 1901

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