He found the country very pleasant and populous, and abounding as well with hogs and fowls, as fruit, and othervegetables of various kinds.
Hitherto we had found no kind of vegetables except a species of wild peas; but though we had seen no inhabitants, we saw places where they had made their fires, which however did not appear to be recent.
It had a pleasant appearance, but afforded neither vegetables nor water; there were however many birds upon it, so tame that they suffered themselves to be taken by hand.
These were immediately taken on board, and consisted of two sheep, an elk ready hilled, and a few fowls, with some vegetables and fruit.
After all, the greatest interest of these vegetables does not seem to consist in their being articles of food.
He has been cultivating vegetablesat Plymouth this summer, and selling them in the market.
Mix the vegetables lightly with a good white mayonnaise, then fashion in pyramid form on salad plate, and garnish with lettuce hearts and a few pink geranium blossoms.
A Yale dinner would be the most difficult to arrange as there are no fruits or vegetables that could rightly be called blue, unless some varieties of grapes and plums might be considered as coming under that head.
Vegetables cause acidity, macaroni makes people dream; cheeses, "considered generally, are difficult of digestion.
The vegetables were contained in wide beds, where, at different spots, arose dwarf cypresses and trees cut in distaff fashion.
And they would eat the hens of their own poultry-yard, the vegetables of their own garden, and would dine without taking off their wooden shoes!
The curé, before departing, timidly confided to Pécuchet that he did not think this imitation of a tomb in the midst of vegetables quite decorous.
Some vegetables increase in weight from this cause, when suspended in the atmosphere, and unconnected with the soil; such are the house-leek, and different species of the aloe.
It appeared, moreover, that substances even poisonous to vegetablesdid not offer an objection to this law.
It is the opinion of farmers and others that vegetables keep best when lying next the ground.
The first consideration is the location of the utensils, and the table and sink where the meats and vegetables are prepared.
During all this time our vegetables on sale are improving in freshness as they are drawn from sources nearer home, and prices are falling.
These are fruits and vegetables preserved in vinegar, after first steeping them in brine.
Leading producers make careful tests of all their seeds, and even offer valuable prizes for the best vegetables and flowers grown from them.
Grains, fruits and vegetables contain starch and sugar and more or less gluten; meats contain fibrin and albumen; milk, casein, etc.
He practically annihilates the seasons and furnishes fruits and vegetables in mid-winter, as fresh and delicate as when first plucked from their native stems or vines.
Some of the French vegetables in glass and tin are beautifully green in appearance, but it is evident that they are artificially colored.
The casein is equivalent to the gluten of vegetables or the fibrin of meat, and the sugar to starch.
Vegetables are simply substitutes for bread and cost about the same.
Brown bread, porridge, lettuce, cress, apples and coarse vegetables are all good for this purpose, but if taken too freely may cause heartburn and flatulence.
On an allotment near home vegetables and poultry might be raised, an important contribution to the household, and one which removes the stigma of being a non-earner.
Butter from America is fifty cents a pound, and fruits and vegetables from Cape Colony and Natal are equally high in price and frequently unobtainable.
He attends to the little plot of cultivated ground, which provides all the vegetables and grain for the table, and spends the remainder of the day in attending to the cattle and sheep.
A practical use of heat production by bacteria is in the making of "hot beds" for forcing vegetables (Fig.
In canning vegetables the boiling should be from one to two hours each day.
Papa can tell you a beautiful story about how God brings all the little sprigs of grass, weeds, vegetables and trees into the world now, and in a few months I can tell you about the mussels, oysters and fish.
In the past fifty and seventy-five years we have doubled the size, variety and quality of our vegetables and fruits.
The story of life that papa will tell you to-day will be about the plants, vegetables and trees, how their young come into the world.
In this little story, you have learned in a general way God’s plan of bringing all little grasses, plants, vegetables and trees into being that come from a seed.
Were it not for these organs in the flowers, no new grasses, plants, vegetables and trees would come into this world.
They had a preference for certain cakes, and especially for truffles and mushrooms--vegetables more particularly mystic.
Vegetables were generally provided, and sometimes meat when any one was sick, or guests arrived.
His chief duty was to keep the convent supplied with herbs on four days a week in winter and spring, and with other vegetables in their season.
Moreover, he had to furnish the whole community with soup, meat, and vegetables on all days when meat was eaten by the whole convent.
He was frequently to visit the kitchen in order to learn what was required from him, and he was always to bring his vegetables and herbs cleaned and prepared ready for cooking.
A third pot, with vegetables in cold water, was to be then made ready to take its place on the fire, after the Gospel of the morning Mass.
Scarlet runner beans=, being ornamental as well as useful, are some of the best vegetables to grow, as they can be made to form a convenient screen for a rubbish heap.
Darwin did, that animals and vegetables have been contemporaneous in their degeneration from a common stock.
Last of all, the various tribes of vegetables are to be enumerated amongst the inferior orders of animals.
While the power of absorption in the roots and barks of vegetables is excited into action by the fluids applied to their mouths like the lacteals and lymphatics of animals.
As all our ideas are originally received by our senses, the question may be changed to whether vegetables possess any organs of sense?
This leads us to a curious inquiry, whether vegetables have ideas of external things?
Other changes of vegetables from climate or other causes are remarked in the note on Curcuma in the same work.
He admits such divisions as between animals and vegetables, or between vegetables and minerals, but that done, he rejects all others that can be founded on the nature of things themselves.
To undertake raising vegetables in Florida, with these ideas of low culture, is to embark in a leaky and surely-sinking ship.
All the garden vegetables were there in fine order; and the string-beans appeared to be in full maturity.
We did not understand at first, as we now do, the difference between ordinary crops and early vegetables and fruits.
All the grains and vegetables that will grow in our middle west will grow in Uruguay and there the farmers never have such a thing as a killing frost.
While nearly all kinds of grain and vegetablesare grown, the one great staple crop of Manchuria is the soybean.
Little patches of ground are tilled and bananas, pears, oranges, and all kinds of fruit and vegetables as well as corn and other grain grow in abundance.
They eat between meals, soup and vegetables and most everything else.
Already tropical plants are associated with the vegetables of temperate climates; but they are not yet the same as existing species.
They would form a powerful implement for excavating the earth, to the greatest depths at which the roots of vegetables penetrate.
The garden was divided into beds planted with all sorts of vegetables and flowers, and bordered with gravel walks.
Twice a week he carried the vegetables and fruit which he cultivated to the nearest market-town.
The bone of a leg of mutton to be chopped small, and put into the stewpan with vegetables and herbs, together with a little drop of water, and drawn as gravy soup; add boiling water.
Sideboard furnished with plain joint andvegetables of all sorts, pickles, &c.
Of course, the meats and vegetables and fruits which compose these dinners must be varied according to the season, the number of guests, and the tastes of the host and hostess.
When the vegetables are tender rub them through a sieve.
A quarter of a pound of portable soup, that is, one cake, in two quarts of boiling water; vegetables to be stewed separately, and added after the soup is dissolved.
Be careful all summer long to dry vegetables and herbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vegetables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bean; cabbage; greens; potato; produce; rhubarb; tater; tomato; vegetable
