My meal was chiefly made upon a dish of firm cream like that of Devonshire, with plums and fresh cob-nuts for dessert.
Upon the sill were plums laid out on wooden trays to dry in the sun and become what English people call prunes.
It was bordered about with cocoa plums and sweet-smelling myrtle, on one of which flourished an orchid, the vanilla bean, which made heavy with its fragrance the whole camping site.
Then came roast apples with white sugar-plums on them, roasted figs, sorrel, watercress, and rosemary.
The plumswant gathering, papa," Percy said, returning from cutting the lettuces.
Then, unripe as they were, she carried them into the city, calling out through the streets- "Green plums I sell!
Now, if I could only swim too, what a fine feast of plums we two friends might have over there together!
So she carried him across to the plum tree, and then sat on the water's edge to think over her wedding dress, while Mr. Jackal feasted on the plums and enjoyed himself.
What a pity it is you can't eat plums in the meantime!
At that time, France still owned French Sudan, so it was necessary for the plums to be sent to Paris, and thence, eventually to Dakar.
When the roads were dry enough, a desert freight truck took the plums to Mopti, on the Niger River where they waited again until the river was high enough that a tug pulling barges could navigate, by slow stages, down to Kabara.
They had canned plums for desert and Homer had politely commented upon their quality.
When you've got to the tree, you would have a hard time To capture the fruit which I sing; The tree is so tall that no person could climb To the boughs where the sugar-plums swing!
And Diphilus of Siphnos pronounces plums to be juicy, digestible, and easily evacuated, but not very nutritious.
Plums are more liable than most other fruits to produce disorders of digestion, and when eaten raw should be carefully selected, that they be neither unripe nor unripe.
Only enough of the plums to give a flavor to the apples will be needed; a handful of the former to a pound of apples will be sufficient.
A very pleasing dish is made by using between the layers ripe yellow peaches and plums sliced together, and lightly sprinkled with sugar.
An excellent sauce may be made by cooking a few dried plums with dried or evaporated apples.
Quinces and sweet apples may be canned in the same way as directed below for plums and sweet apples, using equal parts of apples and quinces, and adding sugar when opened.
Plums make a most artistic fruit piece, served whole and arranged with bunches of choice green grapes, in a basket or glass dish.
Well, we will cut the pudding lengthwise, and in future the plums shall be fairly distributed.
The captain, after helping himself, passed it to the mate, who never found many plums in his portion.
Then, with apparent carelessness, he put down the pudding, with the plums towards himself.
All seemed glad to see her, the market-women even pressing an apple or a few plums on her.
Ripe, the plums fall from the bough; Only three-tenths left there now!
The hills the bushy wild plums show, And pear-trees grace the ground below.
In those days the sugar-plums had not been gilt, and had been much rarer.
The thing took for a time, and Conway Dalrymple was picking up his gilt sugar-plums with considerable rapidity.
You see, when the plums are ripe we spread a sheet under a tree and shake the tree.
The monkeys pick up the plums fast as can be, and fill big wicker baskets with them.
At the time I had stifled my remorse with the assurance that she would far rather I should have the plums than eat them herself, but this was cold comfort to me to-night while I regretted my selfishness.
No; but he has the aptitude to seize upon the plums in the researches of others, and embody them in the amber of his language.
Another comfit of a book for young people, but with fewer plums of romance in it, was Evenings at Home by Dr.
The culture of grapes for raisins, and plums for prunes, would be remarkably successful on the lands for sale.
I am not buying an estate in order to have pigeons and plums to eat; but in order to be called Monsieur de la--that is to say, by the name of my estate.
He filled the lofts of my château with plums, declaring that they would make better sugar than beets; but when he set about making the experiment the plums were rotten.
The cherries were all of stone, instead of having a stone in the middle; and the plums were just as bad and just as beautiful--the cherries were deep red rubies, and the plums were made of chrysoprase.
When ripe, cultivated Plums are cooling and slightly laxative, especially the French fruit, which is dried and bottled for dessert.
They are useful for costive habits, and may be made into an electuary; but, when unripe, Plumsprovoke choleraic diarrhoea.
All the Wild Plums develop thorns; but the cultivated kinds have entirely cast them off.
Johnson was specially fond of veal pie with plums and sugar.
Now don't make any objections, but shake the tree, for the plums are ripe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
