Yes, your majesty; and some of the finest golden pears in your majesty's whole empire.
I suppose he'll be making game of me too--as if I didn't know the scent of ripe golden pears from road-sweepings!
But as his pears were very fine, and the Kaiser was very fond of them, he said to his sons one day, that he would send the Kaiser a basket of them for a present.
And, as the pears were just ripe again, he laid the choicest of the year's stock in another Krattle, and sent him on his way.
When the servants saw another peasant boy from Buers come to the palace with the story that he had pears for the king, they said, "No, no!
Then he ordered that the tree which brought forth such excellent pears should be transplanted to his palace; and to the father and his three sons he gave places among his gardeners, where they lived in plenty and were well content.
Though he was only a country lad, the Kaiser was so fond of pears that he had only to say he had brought some to obtain immediate admittance to his presence.
The princess removed the covering of leaves, and discovered that what he had brought were golden pears indeed, for each pear, large as it was, was of solid shining metal!
These are pears indeed worthy to set before the Kaiser!
So he closed up the mouth of the basket with fresh leaves and went out to take the pears to the Kaiser.
The Kaiser was pleased to see his favourite fruit so splendidly immortalized, and ordered the pears to be laid up in his cabinet of curiosities; but to the boy, for his reward, he ordered that whatever he asked should be given.
And as the season for pears had just come round again, he plaited another Krattle, like the first, and lined it with fresh leaves, and laid in it a goodly show of the golden pears.
People grow pear-trees at great expense of time and money, which never yield them more than four pears to the tree.
In fact, I could not pick the pears alone, not to speak of eating them.
Considerable cholera is the only thing that would let my apples and pears ripen.
That night your pears shall be required of you by a boy!
Fruit cannot be raised on this earth to taste as you imagine those pears would taste.
You learn, in time, that it is better to have had pears and lost them than not to have had pears at all.
When preparing the pears before drying, the flavour will be improved if a little sugar be added to the water in which they are cooked, and to this may be put the juice of the removed seed-vessels and peelings.
Pears for drying purposes ought not to be quite ripe.
If pears constitute the bulk of the store, the fruit-house should be rather drier and rather warmer than in the case of apples.
Apples and pears should be peeled, cut, and cored, and placed in cold water directly they are cored.
Be sure you ask for the young apple-trees grafted on the "Paradise," and the pears on the Quince stock.
The French are the best growers of apples and pears in existence; and in France originated this dwarf method of growing them.
Both apples and pears may be grown as little standard trees or as cordons.
If people would pay no more for Seckel than for Choke pears, Choke pears would be the only ones in market, for they can be furnished with the least cost and trouble.
There was no fruit on the place except apples and a very few pears and grapes.
A stranger may spend a summer in London and never be reminded of the existence of pears and grapes.
The next morning the youngest went there and saw more of the pears picked, and said: "Were you the one that was going to keep a good watch?
Foundation of the Ottoman Empire, and that of Sir Edwin Pears in his work on the Destruction of the Greek Empire, pp.
I have to thank Lord Bryce, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Sir Edwin Pears for their valuable suggestions, and Lady Byles and Mr. Laurence Chubb for their kind help.
When I left him, the captain gave me a bag of alligator-pears to take home with me, and I promised to come the next day, and bring him a new library of old, paper novels.
Sometimes you may use marrow steeped in musk and rose-water, and pleasant pears or quinces.
On the very next day a large basket of pears was delivered at Marshlands by the old gardener, "with Captain Vernon's compliments".
You know the old duffer has a gorgeous pear-tree at the end of his garden; well, we just stood in the lane outside with our catapults, and shot pellets into the pears as hard as we could go.
The pears were brought in at dessert, and remarkably ripe and luscious they appeared.
So we made a hurried little meal at the Maire's house, and Madame threw us delicious pears from a first-floor window as we rode away.
Outside Béthune we halted for some time, and were regaled with soup and pears by some hospitable ladies at luncheon-time.
Pears love a deep moist soil, but not water that lies for any length of time about the roots.
If in preserving pears it is wished to give a deep pink tinge to the fruit and syrup, use a perfectly bright block-tin saucepan.
To plant pearsin a north aspect even on a wall is a mistake.
Stewed pears are excellent food in every way; pears that do not ripen well can be utilised thus.
Our growers may learn a useful lesson from Californian pears in the London market.
In sandy or chalky soils, pears will have a poor chance even on the free (or pear) stock, unless the ground has been previously prepared by trenching, and then digging in a good quantity of decayed stable or farmyard manure.
Just pick up the pears in your apron, that I knock off this tree.
I emptied the pears in her lap, and she thanked me in her uncouth way, between the big mouthsful, and sat down on the grass with Biddy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
