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  • When we come back to bury him later, his head looked like a mushmelon someone'd kicked apart.

    Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

  • Genevieve May showed 'em how to make mincemeat out of tomatoes and beets; how to make marmalade out of turnips and orange peel; how to make preserves out of apple peelings and carrots; and guava jelly out of mushmelon rinds, or some such thing.

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Mark Twain 1872

  • Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

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