cowcumbers

The girls were hungry enough to do justice to any fare, and they enjoyed Miss Sarah's excellent bread and butter and "cowcumbers" thoroughly.

Anne of Avonlea 1909

Miss Sarah's excellent bread and butter and "cowcumbers" thoroughly.

Anne of Avonlea 1908

Like other high-bred people of his time, he talked of "cowcumbers" and "laylocks," called a woman an

Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

Rice-puddings can be grown, ready-made, by sowing rice with cowcumbers.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 Various

I'll do the best I can for you in the way of tea but I warn you not to expect anything but bread and butter and some cowcumbers.

Anne of Avonlea 1909

I'll do the best I can for you in the way of tea but I warn you not to expect anything but bread and butter and some cowcumbers.

Anne of Avonlea 1908

Timothy, I've gone 'n' forgot the whole pepper, 'n' we're goin 'to pickle seed cowcumbers to-morrer.

Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

"What can be done in one place can in another," and he got all excited up, and took his old account-book out of his pocket and went to calculatin 'on how many cowcumbers he could raise in the winter down suller by the light of his old lantern.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

"Farmers always say cowcumbers instead of cucumbers."

Christmas Every Day and Other Stories William Dean Howells 1878

There'll be some nice fat uns down aside where I grows my cowcumbers.

First in the Field A Story of New South Wales George Manville Fenn 1870