So he gathered some more of them and went back to the palace of the princess, and sent her up some of the black figs as a present from an admirer.
So then he knew that the black figs brought the horns and the white figs took them away.
And he gathered some of these figs from the different trees, and sat down by the bank to eat them.
As soon as their admiration and surprise had a little subsided, they all fell to and ate with a wonderful relish, and the children were munching the sweet figs quite late into the evening.
It was quiet in Silvio's room, for his mother was without in the garden gathering grapes and figs for the evening.
Cooked dried peaches, apricots, prunes, or figs may be substituted for dates.
Raisins, dates, and figs yield a large food value at comparatively low cost.
The grapes or figs not used for storing a man may gather when he pleases on his own ground, but on that of others he must pay the penalty of removing what he has not laid down.
A slave who eats of the storing grapes or figsshall be beaten, and the freeman be dismissed with a warning.
And if a slave touches any fruit of this sort, without the consent of the owner of the land, he shall be beaten with as many blows as there are grapes on the bunch, or figs on the fig-tree.
It is to her a casual acquisition, a home unknown to her race before men took it into their heads to cut reeds and make them into hurdles for drying figs in the sun.
Large empty bowls there were, and big spoons, and plates and dishes filled with figs and dates, and oranges and all sorts of goodies.
They grated cocoanut and chocolate; they cut up figs and seeded dates; they chopped nuts and raisins; and they received admiring compliments from Mrs. Maynard for the satisfactory results of their work.
I were to hope for figs with our bread, or even for bread by itself, we had to move on to the next place where work awaited us.
Add figsand flavorings and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin.
This grievance, and the question as to what berries or figs agreed best with each old bower bird's digestion, were the only topics discussed with any animation.
These figs are not half ripe like the juicy ones on the other side of the tree!
There are figs here," suggested Sebastiano, looking up into the trees around them.
The figs and grapes will not be dry for another month.
It has not rained yet, and if you eat figs from the tree before it has rained you will have pain.
Then the lame man spoke to the blind man, 'I see fine figs up there; take me upon your shoulders, and I shall pick them, and we can enjoy them together.
They did so, and when the king entered the garden, the figs were gone.
The flax is packed upon the backs of asses, the lotus, the vintage, and the figs are gathered in.
And these figs and pomegranates are not to be despised either," observed Frank.
The landscape was varied by groves of palms and sycamores; and not unfrequently date trees and figs offered to the travellers their ripe and tempting fruit.
When this Philip, father of Perseus, was thus overrunning Asia, being unable to get provisions for his army, he accepted a present of figs from the Magnesians, as they had no corn.
A talent of figs is sold for three obols, a calf for five drachmae, a draught-ox for ten.
Antoine brought us fresh figs from one of the gardens—a relish to the dry remains of our crust.
A cauliflower served up at dinner was of enormous size, nor can I forget the baskets of delicious figs which, at this late period of the year, were brought by the market-women to the door of our hotel.
The figs sent from abroad are dried by the heat of the sun, or in furnaces for the purpose.
The best figsare brought from Turkey, but they are also imported from Italy, Spain, and the southern part of France.
I felt so dull and unemployed, so dreary, that by way of pastime, I bought some figs and peaches and ate them.
And men find there also the apple tree of Adam, that have a bite at one of the sides; and there be also fig trees that bear no leaves, but figs upon the small branches; and men clepe them figs of Pharaoh.
Figs would be more acceptable, I should think," said the man.
The Khoja pursued his journey, but as he went the man's words troubled him--"Figs would be more acceptable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "figs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
