Miss Larrabee reported the affair for our paper, giving the small list of guests and the long line of refreshments -- which included alligator-pear salad, right out of the Smart Set Cook Book. ❋ Various (N/A)
But soon their hosts began to wear long faces; the strangers had enormous appetites, and the plantains and the bread-fruit vanished before their rapacity; the alligator-pear trees, whose fruit sent to ❋ Unknown (1919)
She ate nothing but alligator-pear salad and hothouse grapes, drank a little champagne, and took cognac in her coffee. ❋ Unknown (1915)
On the fertile, volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes, and vegetables. ❋ Unknown (1913)
On the fertile volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and the jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes and vegetables. ❋ Unknown (1908)
The alligator-pear -- cuts and tastes like beautiful green cheese ... ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
The guava, the tamarind, the wonderful alligator-pear, the plantain, the cocoanut, and the date, the almond and the pecan luxuriate in Southern Florida. ❋ Unknown (1875)
Among the plants cultivated by man, the sugar-cane, the plantain, the mammee-apple, and alligator-pear (Laurus persea), alone have the property of the cocoa-tree; that of being watered equally well with fresh and salt water. ❋ Unknown (1851)
The superb alligator-pear, more properly called percia gratissima; its first name given probably from its being indigenous to a country abounding in saurian reptiles, otherwise it is difficult to account for its inappropriate designation. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
_alligator-pear_, and which the French call _avocat_ and the Spaniards ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
_bordure_, alligator-pear salad and a beautiful charlotte cream with black walnuts. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)
-- but the Paris which the casual male visitor samples, is the most overrated thing on earth, I reckon -- except alligator-pear salad ❋ Unknown (1910)
Here the mango with its peach-like foliage is found, bending to the ground with the weight of its ripening fruit; the alligator-pear is wonderfully beautiful in its blossom, suggesting in form and color the passion-flower; the soft, delicate foliage of the tamarind is like our sensitive plant; the banana-trees are in full bearing, the deep green fruit (it is ripened and turns yellow off the tree), being in clusters of nearly a hundred, tipped at the same time by a single, pendent, glutinous bud nearly as large as a pineapple. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)
You can't [make] [guacamole] [without] an alligator pear. ❋ EViL POp TaRt (2010)
I like [salt] on my [Alligator Pears], and I just love to make [Guacamole] with them. ❋ Jayy1989 (2010)
I just saw [the Alligator] [Pears] last night! They [rocked]! ❋ Oswald Petond (2007)
Mother: You're doing [piano lessons] Timmy! Period! It will look good on your [college application].
Timmy: But I REALLY don't want to mom!
Timmy's Friend: Ahh, It's OK. She just wants [the Alligator's] Pear (or Alligator Pear) ❋ MoMan115 (2008)
[I just] [ate] some [delicious] alligator pears! ❋ Oswald Petond (2008)
