I know my mama told me years ago that I was born in watermelon time.
She said she ate the first watermelon that got ripe on the place that year and it made her sick.
So if I live and nothing happens to me in watermelon time I will be eighty this year.
Don't let anybody else get ahead of you if you can help it--it wouldn't be a bad idea to have some watermelon to eat along with that fried snipe!
The chef looked about genially, finding something for most of them, smiling and assuring them that the prize offer was true, showing them the big greenwatermelon that would fall to the lucky Nimrod.
Clark Put watermelonpulp in potato ricer and squeeze juice out of it.
Donald Campbell Scoop out rounds of watermelon and cantaloupe, thoroughly chilled; put in glasses, sprinkle with pulverized sugar and pour over each two tablespoonfuls ice cold ginger ale.
The watermelon patch was located close to this fence, and thus in full view and temptingly accessible from the road.
She made no further objections, and with the watermelon poised on his shoulder he walked by her side, neither speaking a word, till they reached the gate of the Seminary grounds.
We tried hard to get a watermelon there was in the pantry, but cook said she did n't dare let us have it.
Watermelon that has been in the refrigerator all day would be a simple dessert, with no cake or anything else to think of.
Cold Boiled Tongue Apple, Celery and Green Pepper Salad Golden Bantam Corn on the Cob Bread Butter Peach Butter Iced Tea Lemon Sliced Watermelon "Now, if you'll get a pencil and paper, I will give you some directions about cooking.
And if you come in his car, will you stop on the way and get a watermelon that has been on ice?
But then, I like green corn and watermelon and peaches, so I suppose I can wait.
It is now some time since I have been deprived of his and my sister's company at Watermelon Hill, they having retired to their own farm as soon as my brother was well convinced I was capable of managing my own affairs.
What had happened at Watermelon Hill during the Author's absence.
July 19 Cream of Asparagus Soup *Lamb Fricassee with Dumplings Mint Jelly Green Peas Romaine Salad Cheese Toasted Crackers Watermelon Coffee *Lamb Fricassee with Dumplings-- Cut up and dice enough cold lamb to make 1 quart.
Besides the usual tableware, we had gold dragon menu holders, little peach-shaped silver saucers filled with almonds and dried watermelon seeds, and knives and forks in addition to chopsticks.
We placed golden menu holders and little gold plates for almonds and watermelon seeds; the rest all silver ware, including chopsticks.
But besides tea, he brought dried almonds, pickled watermelon rinds, candied quince, and "China nuts.
BLIX by Frank Norris 1899 Chapter I It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate.
The watermelon rinds were flat to their Western palates, but the dried almonds were a great success.
Also she can paint a pink fish and a copper skillet and a watermelon with one slice cut out as good as any one between here and Spokane.
It stood on end, having a bulge like a watermelon in the top, so no vandal could stand it up wrong; and it was wide open to show the two insides.
When she wasn't thinking up new infamies with rutabagas and watermelon rinds, she'd be showing him off to the fair crowds.
Uncle Prudente's white linen suit was splashed from head to foot with watermelon juice, his panama hat was crushed out of shape, watermelon juice ran down his face and several black seeds stuck to his face.
The American watermelon also had been planted and the Senhor was watching eagerly to see if it would bear fruit, for he had been told that in other parts of Brazil it grew rapidly and bore well.
That night a thought came into my mind--I would use that watermelon as an illustration.
So, the next morning when I reached Chicago, I had enough seeds weighed to learn that it would take about five thousand watermelon seeds to weigh a pound, and I estimated that the watermelon weighed about forty pounds.
Where did that little watermelon seed get its tremendous strength?
A few weeks before some one, I knew not who, had planted a little watermelonseed in the ground.
At one end of the table a huge watermelon cut lengthwise, and furnished with masts and sails of red crepe paper, looked like a brig just launched.
They've eaten up the lighthouse all but the lantern and the flag, and the watermelon ship was so pretty.
If, by this means, a breed of watermelon can be raised that will not strike terror to the heart of the consumer, this agricultural address will not have been delivered in vain.
There were no watermelon rinds there, no broken berry-baskets, no orange peel, no nothing.
I have never been on the other side of the "crick" even on a steamboat, but I am pretty sure that there are no yellow-hammers' nests over there orwatermelon patches.
The watermelon frolic was a great success and is recommended to any organization in town or country at watermelon time as a fun--and funds--producing social.
One feature of the evening was a watermelon contest among the boys.
As a special item of their musical program they sang a parody of Apple Blossom Time called It's Watermelon Time in Dixie.
Watermelon: A crescent-shaped hat to be worn broadside suggesting a slice of watermelon from green paper border (fitting on hair) to pink center dotted with tiny bits of black court plaster to suggest seeds.
For this, real watermelon vines had been obtained from somebody's garden and placed naturally on the ground.
The cake was then baked in a round tin and when sliced resembled the pink of watermelon filled with black seeds.
Sidenote: The melon] The watermelon is very wholesome.
It's jolly enough for us to be allowed to join you and see the watermelon passing around.
After that a watermelonwas cut and brought to the tables.
Remove the green rind ofwatermelon and the inside pink portion that is left on after eating it.
Add to this sirup the cooked watermelon rind and bring to the boiling point.
The accompanying recipe is for pickled watermelon rind, but if desired muskmelon rind may be substituted.
Small pieces of watermelon cut with a French vegetable cutter make a very attractive garnish for fruit salads and other fruit mixtures.
Watermelon is delicious when it is served ice cold.
As an appetizer, watermelon is delicious when cut into pieces and served in a cocktail glass with fresh mint chopped fine and sprinkled over the top.
Skating on the baptismal pond of Frying Pan Baptist Church, and neighborhood events such as picnics, watermelon feasts and oyster suppers also lent excitement to the child's life.
Each family would bring a large hamper of food, but the fried chicken, watermelon and pies were spread out on the tables to be shared by everyone.
While she still hesitated uncertainly on the threshold, the pantry door opened noiselessly and Miss Saidie appeared, carrying a glass dish filled with preserved watermelon rind.
Summer after summer, through the long afternoons, the tenants had sat there in cane-bottomed chairs tilted back against the housefronts, swapping gossip and waiting for a dog fight or a watermelon cutting to break the monotony.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watermelon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
