We rode up a narrow and shady ravine, through which leapt a brawling torrent, watering fruit trees and melon beds.
We traced the remains of cultivation, and the dry water-courses, which once irrigated plots of rice and melon beds.
Between them is a rich alluvium deposited by the river during its gradual retreat; it is always under cultivation, and is divided into corn fields, and melon and cucumber beds.
It was the wrong end of the sack she had clutched, and the melon had rolled out into the sand.
No melon tonight for a girl who will tell such a deliberate lie.
I think thismelon is better than the one you got anyhow, but if you still think it's got to be a licking, why, I'm ready.
I stole this melon and drug it up here to plague Dad 'cause he said I couldn't have any, but it got smashed all into bits coming up, so I thought I better eat it so's to save it.
If I am going to get licked, I may as well have the melon first; maybe it won't hurt so bad.
But the melonis sour, I reckon, and I'm sorry I took it.
Aunt Maria wasn't at home when we took the melon down, and no one knows where I've gone.
The doctor came along just then and told me maybe if I bought another melon it would be all right, so I did, borrowing eight cents of him, for which I must work until I get it paid back.
Climb in and we'll hurry that melon home before anyone knows it is gone.
I formerly hesitated to admit that the melonwas indigenous in the north of the Caucasus, as it is asserted by ancient authors--an assertion which has not been confirmed by subsequent botanists.
The best proof which I have been able to discover of the existence of the melon among the Romans is a very accurate representation of a fruit in the beautiful mosaic of fruits in the Vatican.
The origin of the water-melon was long mistaken or unknown.
For the rest, the frequent bitterness of the water-melon is not at all extraordinary, as the most nearly allied species is Citrullus Colocynthis.
In spite of the very evident difference between the melon and cucumber, which both belong to the genus Cucumis, cultivators suppose that the species may be crossed, and that the quality of the melon is thus sometimes spoilt.
Comes certifies that the half of a melon is represented in a painting at Herculaneum.
As the water-melon is an annual, it ripens out of the tropics wherever the summer is sufficiently hot.
Europeans have introduced the water-melon into America, where it is now cultivated from Chili to the United States.
The aspect of the question as to the origin of the melon has completely changed since the experiments of Naudin.
Then some poor lost lamb of sin might come and scale the fence, reach a melon in a moment, sever the stem with his ready knife, and in a trice be back in the road with his prize.
Then he would climb the fence, reach the melon in a few strides, sever the stem with his ready knife, and in a trice be back in the road with his prize.
He imagined he could see the form of a huge melon lying in dim stateliness not ten yards away.
Preserved citron-melon will be still better for this purpose than the dry candied citron.
To every three pounds of melon allow two lemons, and a tea-spoonful of ground white ginger.
Then grate the melon slices on a coarse grater, but not too close to the rind.
Cut a square small piece out of one side, and through that take out the seeds, mix with them mustard seeds and shred garlic, stuff the melon as full as the space will allow, and replace the square piece.
And I put up melon rind in the place of pickled peaches, and citron and crab-apples in the place of pears.
The fruit of the Melon is greatly influenced by slight differences in culture and climate.
The seed of the Persian Melon produces near Paris fruit inferior to the poorest market kinds, but at Bordeaux yields delicious fruit.
And the worst of it all is, that now I shall never know how the American melon tasted.
Affonzo looked at the green melon and wondered how it tasted.
Above the melon vines grew one of the tallest of the banana trees, and the fruit seemed to Affonzo to be finer at that particular time than he had ever seen it.
When Mr. Shimerda and Krajiek drove up in their wagon to take Peter to the train, they found him with a dripping beard, surrounded by heaps of melon rinds.
As we rode up the draw, we skirted a big melon patch, and a garden where squashes and yellow cucumbers lay about on the sod.
His rosy face, with its snub nose, set in this fleece, was like a melon among its leaves.
There are many blessings in this world, but a shade-tree at the end of the cotton row, and a water-melon cooling in a seventy-foot well are two of its greatest joys.
The water-melon crop is still ahead of us, and a heaven of joy in every ruddy heart!
On the following day the lad took what was necessary and followed the lame giant, who soon brought him to the garden of the Melon of Life, which was guarded by fifty giants.
Then she brought the Melon of Life, and put it before his nostrils.
He has come," answered the giantess, "to pick a Melon of Life, and carry it to his mother who is sick.
In the morning the lad brought the melon to his stepmother, who eating it exclaimed: "O, happy!
In the middle of the night, when the lad was sound asleep, the old woman took the Melon of Life out of the lad's saddle bag and put a common melon in its place.
The lad took leave of his adopted aunt and cousins, find taking the Melon of Life with him, returned home.
All right, mother," said the lad, "I will bring to you the Melon of Life.
The guards being asleep, the lad and his companion entered the garden without being perceived, and picking the Melon began to run.
Next take for dinner the melonof desire mixed with embrace-almond and juice of the lemon of concord, and lastly 3 rolls of thigh-work and enter the bath for the benefit of your health.
When I had eaten it, I looked up, and found myself outside the melon, and the melon became whole as it was at first.
Diabrotiea vittata), which damages the leaves of melon vines.
Diabrotiea vittata), which damages the leaves of melon vines.
It would have been excruciatingly funny at any other time, and to one that was not an actor in the drama, to observe that not one man, woman, or pickaninny of the excited crowd offered to pass the confines of the melon patch.
She stood still and looked over the wide patch as if she had made every melon there, and meant to have the full credit for her work.
But I'd rather have ruined them all and lost every blessèd melon on the place, than have given Miss Nancy's Nerves such a shock.
Once he passed through a small clearing, man-made, where three or four cotton bushes huddled together forlornly in company with a luxuriant melon patch.
And the melon patch was separated by only a few feet of underbrush from Jeems' domain.
As we trailed into the kitchen from the water melon feast, Lettie Conlow's dress caught on a nail in the floor.
We were eating water melon on the back porch, half in the shadow, which we didn't mind, of course.
The mousse may be either in a melon form or in slices, as is more convenient, but a little whipped cream served with it is an improvement in either case.
The ice cream may be either a melonmould of French cream covered with a thick layer of pistache, or else a brick of the pistache with a centre of lemon ice.
The mousse may be in white sugar cases, if you prefer these rather than the melon mould.
He opened this and took out a melon and three large bunches of grapes, laid them down on the ground without a word, nodded, and went out again.
Without much difficulty the melonwas cut into three parts, and devoured to the rind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: berry; color; dividend; fruit; interest; orange; patronage; pigment; pink; plum; pork
