The oranges formed a pyramid in the center of the board, topped with a bunch of vivid radishes.
The best of all was that we brought a sack of oranges with us, and that the time was now come for their employment.
Encountering a negress with a load of oranges on her head, we bought and ate the fruit with eagerness, though the oranges were bitter.
Then add the juice of twelve oranges and two lemons, put in the freezer; when it commences to freeze stir in the whites of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
Five pounds of ripe currants or cherries, five pounds of granulated sugar, two pounds of seeded raisins, the pulp of six oranges cut in small pieces, and the rind of two oranges cut fine.
The brandy and wine may be omitted and more lemons and oranges used to flavor it.
Drain from the water and cut in fine strips with scissors, add this to the pulp of the oranges and lemons after removing all the white bitter skin and pips from the fruit.
Sweet and bitter oranges differ in no important respect except in the flavour of their fruit, but Gallesio[628] is most emphatic that both kinds can be propagated by seed with absolute certainty.
Gallesio found that the willow-leafed and the Little China oranges reproduced their proper leaves and fruit; but the seedlings were not quite equal in merit to their parents.
De Candolle informs me that since the publication of his great work he has received accounts from Guiana, the Antilles, and Mauritius, that in these countries sweet oranges faithfully transmit their character.
In the fruit garden the lemons had quite fallen, but the oranges were beginning to become a livid yellow on one side of the bush, while the dates had passed from a pale to a deep golden hue.
Lemon trees and orange trees were ranged in rows; the lemons yellow on the trees or lying on the ground as thick as fallen apples after an autumn storm, the oranges still hard spheres of dark green.
Oranges of Chine are knowen for the best of the world.
Thorow all Languedoc and Provence the olive tries is as common as the walnuts in Poictou: oranges thorow much of France and in seweral places China oranges.
Frosting: The white of an egg, the juice of one and a half oranges and the grated rind of one, one cupful and a half of powdered sugar, unless the egg and oranges are very large, in which case use two cupfuls.
Grate the rind and squeeze the juice of the oranges into this.
In the spring, when orangesare not very acid, add the juice of a lemon.
Have oranges pared, divided into eighths and wiped free of moisture.
A pint of milk, five eggs, one-fourth of a cupful of granulated sugar and three table-spoonfuls of powdered, five Florida oranges and a speck of salt.
Sauce: The whites of six eggs, one cupful of powdered sugar, the juice of two orangesor of one lemon.
Follow the second rule for lemon cream, but use the juice of sixoranges instead of that of lemons.
Grate the rind of the oranges on the gelatine, Squeeze and strain the orange juice, and add the sugar to it.
A pint and a half of cream, the juice of five oranges and grated rind of two, one large cupful of sugar, the yolks of six eggs, half a package of gelatine, half a cupful of cold water.
Mr. Birdseye pointed toward the flinger of oranges who, having exhausted his ammunition, was now half out of a window, contemplating the flitting landscape.
Two oranges in instantaneous succession struck the rounded belly of a water tank, making twin yellow asterisks where they hit.
Lord Morpeth, who was a Minister of the Crown in 1840, used always to suckoranges on the Treasury bench during the course of his own speeches.
Oranges and biscuits were not, as may be imagined, this fascinating creature's sole stock in trade.
Oranges and apples are to be taken one at a time, until the coat-pockets begin to become inconveniently heavy.
I found oranges and bananas in abundance, and these with cocoa-nuts constitute all the market affords at this season of the year.
Take the thin peel of two oranges and of one lemon; add water and sugar the same as for hot lemonade.
When cold add the juice of four or five oranges and one lemon and strain off.
The oranges do not come into season until September.
Cook for fifteen minutes and then add the oranges and cook until the oranges are tender.
DRIED FRUIT Oranges and grapefruit are high-priced and the dried fruits may be substituted to advantage.
Lift the oranges into a jar and bring the syrup to a boil.
Now add Grated rind of one orange, Three oranges cut in tiny pieces, Three-quarters cup of sugar.
She carried her basket of oranges on her arm: she had a white kerchief over her neck and shoulders and another over her head: her face was full of impudence, cleverness and wit.
The motive of gathering oranges is several times repeated: a youth snatches at the fruit, an old man bends to pick up those which have dropped, and a child searches for those which have rolled away in the grass.
Blue creepers twine round the balustrades of castles; hedges of monthly roses veil the roads, and oranges grow large amid the dark foliage.
The osage orange-trees that grew along the fence behind the drying-ground had dropped their rugged globes on the grass, and one could play ball with these oranges till their tough fibres grew soft and yielded grudgingly, like rubber.
In those days, apparently, the custom, delectable to the boys if less so to their elders, of consuming oranges between the acts had not yet fallen into desuetude.
We take it as a matter of course; but how much poorer would the world suddenly seem if oranges became henceforth unobtainable!
In the present instance the fee is as small as it possibly could be, and the bench-woman ekes out her income by selling cakes, oranges and candies.
Orange trees grow in wild profusion on the spots where once stood farm-houses, while mud ranchos, tenanted by a few old women who sustain life with oranges and manioc, here and there disturb the monotony of desolation.
In every street and paseo you see the picturesque aguadore, with his cántaro of white or brown clay and reed basket, containing glasses, sticks of azucarillos, and oranges or limes.
Yes, the Court of Oranges is the most perfect spot in Cordova, to which the stranger will come again and again.
At Seville and other towns in the south, the women pick the oranges ready to be taken to the ships.
Mrs. Maynard seemed to find plenty to do just waiting on the workers, and it was largely owing to her thoughtfulness that oranges and eggs and cups and spoons appeared when needed, almost as if by magic.
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're awful good," agreed King, "but I likeoranges better.
Part of the line passed in front of a very large grove and there our limbers could fill up in a few minutes with orangessuch as we had never tasted before.
In the trenches rushed were found bags of oranges and a pot of hot soup, which looked as if we had effected a surprise.
Spring in Palestine is wonderful; in addition to the wealth of flowers, the oranges and lemons were delicious.
Even the best oranges we had yet come across did not appeal to us, they seemed so cold.
Citrons intended for peel are imported in brine, but orangesand lemons in boxes.
Of tropical fruits cultivated below 4000 feet, oranges and indifferent bananas alone are frequent, with lemons of various kinds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oranges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
