peascods

I go into the garden and gather a few peascods for seed till the horses should come up.

Samuel Butler: A Sketch 2003

Pour out all in the name of Lucifer, fill here, you, fill and fill (peascods on you) till it be full.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Pour out all in the name of Lucifer, fill here, you, fill and fill (peascods on you) till it be full.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I go into the garden and gather a few peascods for seed till the horses should come up.

Samuel Butler: a sketch Henry Festing Jones 1889

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulæ will not get a definite result out of loose data.

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Marmaduke's ears recovered the shock of "Hot peascods, -- all hot!" than they were saluted with "Mackerel!"

The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Scarcely had Marmaduke's ears recovered the shock of "Hot peascods, -- all hot!" than they were saluted with

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

He crushed a few measures of peascods to cool his tusks; then turned his pleasurable longitudinal eyes far toward the outer extremities of their sockets, and leered fixedly and sarcastically at the high priests, showing every tooth in each jaw.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

Some had fruit like peascods, in each of which there were just ten small peas; I opened many of them, and found no more nor less.

Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792

Some had fruit like peascods; in each of which there were just ten small peas; I opened many of them, and found no more nor less.

A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683