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Example sentences for "medlars"

Lexicographically close words:
mediums; mediumship; medius; medizinische; medlar; medle; medled; medleth; medley; medling
  1. Medlars are popular in England, and in request in Paris.

  2. Come, Tarquin, dear old boy; you know you can't resist medlars when they're rotten and squashy.

  3. Matilda slipped down from the tree, took possession of the donation, and proceeded to pick up a handful of over-ripe medlars from the grass at her feet.

  4. He had applauded the new arrangement, and the young men sat long over the fire, with a bottle of college port and a dish of medlars which I had sent my brother from our famous tree in the Upper Croft at Worth Maltravers.

  5. It lay there between the dish of medlars and the decanter, veiled indeed with thick dust as with a mantle, but revealing beneath it the shape and contour of a violin.

  6. Unresting the Filial doves speed in their flight, Now fanning the air and anon they alight On the medlars thick grouped.

  7. I climbed that northern hill, and medlars sought; The spring nigh o'er, to ripeness they were brought.

  8. An th' hadst hated medlars sooner, thou shouldst have loved thyself better now.

  9. Now will he sit under a medlar tree And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.

  10. The industry of the women strews the floor with a superfluity of carpets, cushions, and mats; makes slippers for the men, cloth for such clothes as are not made of sheepskin, and a delicious drink from the medlars that grow on the mountain.

  11. Their stalks should be dipped in strong lime, and the fruits buried in boxes of wet bran, no two medlars touching, and placed in the fruit-house.

  12. Gather the medlars when quite sound, wipe them well, and let them stew in the preserving-pan with just enough boiling water to cover them till they are in a pulp.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medlars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.