green-peas

In this past year of our Lord eighteen hundred sixty-one, we have no doubt, and we shudder to think of it, that by far the larger proportion of our fellow-citizens shovelled their green-peas into their mouths with uncanonical knife-blades, just as Sir Philip Sidney did in a darker age, when yet the "Times" and the silver fork were not.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

There is no shelter for it yet, and my poor green-peas are blown nearly out of the ground.

Station Life in New Zealand 1871

Malcolm had cleaned some green-peas and washed the first young potatoes we had drawn that season, with his own hands, and he was reckoning upon the feast he should have on the potatoes with childish glee.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

The potatoes were planted, and the season of strawberries, green-peas, and young potatoes come, but still Malcolm remained our constant guest.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

Mrs. — whilst gathering a handful of fine green-peas, suddenly stooped, and looking earnestly at the ground, called to me,

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

The potatoes were planted, and the season of strawberries, green-peas, and young potatoes come, but still Malcolm remained our constant guest.

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

Malcolm had cleaned some green-peas and washed the first young potatoes we had drawn that season, with his own hands, and he was reckoning upon the feast he should have on the potatoes with childish glee.

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

Mrs. --- whilst gathering a handful of fine green-peas, suddenly stooped, and looking earnestly at the ground, called to me --

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

It remains to be seen whether we shall at some future time find puffs in the hearts of lettuces and summer-cabbages, or shell them from our green-peas and Windsor beans.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 Various 1841

Mental green-peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round.

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841