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- noun Obsolete spelling of
celery .
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Examples
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Ai pullin up a chair howldin owt mai Krystal mennee facceted etched bukkitnawt bloo fur a fill up ob teh Bluddy MaryO.Pleez may ai hab a stik ob sellery an a dash ob woostercestershire sawse?
I QUESTION THE GENERAL - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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March 25, 2008 at 12:58 pm piemeiento cheez on sellery quaker oatmeal chawklit bars root beerz
Nom Nom Turn Nom Nom - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Upon a mod'rit sellery, we'll up an 'call it square;
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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"Ye enter into office, so to speak, with me at that hour, when the sellery, seventy-five dollars a month and board, ez private and confidential clerk, begins -- eh?"
Cressy Bret Harte 1869
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Upon a mod'rit sellery, we'll up an 'call it square;
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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We therefore returned to the rest, and for that day made no other repast than what the wild sellery afforded us.
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A weed called slaugh, fried in the tallow of some candles we had saved, and wild sellery, were our only fare, by which our strengths was so much impaired, that we could scarcely crawl.
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Wild sellery was all we could procure, which raked our stomachs instead of assuaging our hunger.
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Take a little strong white gravy, with some of the whitest sellery you can get, cut it about an inch long, boil it whilst it be tender, and put it into the gravy, with two anchovies, a little lemon-peel shred, two or three spoonfuls of cream, a little shred mace, and a spoonful of white wine; thicken it up with flour and butter; if you dislike the sellery you may put in the liver as you did for chickens.
English Housewifery 2004
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We had most of us fasted eight-and-forty hours, some more; it was time therefore to make enquiry among ourselves what store of sustenance had been brought from the wreck by dire providence of some, and what could be procured on the island by the industry of others; but the produce of the one amounted to no more than two or three pounds of biscuit-dust preserved in a bag; and all the success of those who ventured abroad, the weather being still exceedingly bad, was to kill one sea-gull and pick some wild sellery.
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