Brussels Sprouts

But there they were back with it all again: the yellow sun-glasses that had taken the red from the wreath of rosebuds and turned them into brussels-sprouts, that for him had taken the colour from a stray curl of red hair. ❋ Brand, Christianna, 1907- (1955)

Miss Trapp should have her wedding costume made for her there, a present from himself with extravagant good wishes; yes, and a hat too, madly becoming, he had just the thing in mind, a little nest of lilies and roses to perch on the bridal head … ‘And no brussels-sprouts?’ said Mr Fernando, wanly joking. ❋ Brand, Christianna, 1907- (1955)

It was curious that she should wear a hat wreathed in withered brown brussels-sprouts and for a moment his confidence in her identity failed him; but he took off the sun-glasses and saw that the brussels-sprouts were red roses, really, and expensive red roses at that. ❋ Brand, Christianna, 1907- (1955)

He looked into the round brown face, the round brown eyes swimming moistly behind round yellow sun-glasses: and far, far away at the far, far back of his mind, stirred a memory: something about rose-buds, something about the brussels-sprouts, something about a hat … ❋ Brand, Christianna, 1907- (1955)

She wore the expensive, if somewhat out-of-date, hat with the red brussels-sprouts and a depressing brown silk dress, and clutched tight up under her chin in one thin hand a large brown leather bag. ❋ Brand, Christianna, 1907- (1955)

They arrived, breathless and blushing, in ones and twos, Miss Trapp last of all, hurriedly adjusting the khaki silk dress and the brussels-sprouts hat. ❋ Brand, Christianna, 1907- (1955)

All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower, brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints. ❋ Florence Daniel (N/A)

An _Evening News_ correspondent states that at one restaurant last week a man consumed "a large portion of beef, baked potatoes, brussels-sprouts, two big platefuls of bread, apple tart, a portion of cheese, a couple of pats of butter and a bottle of wine." ❋ Various (N/A)

While the brussels-sprouts were pulling the snouts ❋ Norman Lindsay (1924)

Soon they will be brussels-sprouts, and then they will shake open their fairy umbrellas. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)

In fact this wild plant is the original, not only of our headed cabbage in its different varieties, but also of all forms of kale, the kohl-rabi, brussels-sprouts, broccolis and cauliflowers. ❋ Unknown (1877)

My treatise on the cabbage would hardly be complete without some allusion to such prominent members of the Brassica family as the cauliflower, broccoli, brussels-sprouts, and kale. ❋ James John Howard Gregory (1868)

STEM SAVOY and DALMENY SPROUTS are considered as hybrids, the one between the brussels-sprouts and Savoy, the other between it and ❋ James John Howard Gregory (1868)

The soil for brussels-sprouts should not be so rich as for cabbage, as the object is to grow them small and solid. ❋ James John Howard Gregory (1868)

It's a recipe for advanced brussels-sprouts eaters-the flavor intensifies and it's still a little bitter, an acquired taste for children. ❋ Vered Guttman (2011)

The Singleweeds haven't touched meat since I don't know when, so for a consideration of brussels-sprouts and a few digestive biscuits the Joneses will have five pounds of genuine beef to play with. " ❋ Various (N/A)

No [dessert] [unless] [you eat] your Brussels sprouts. ❋ Zimmygirl777 (2022)

[Brussels Sprouts] are [shit]! ❋ Crazydope1 (2014)

[The people] in [the relationship] were [brussel sprouts] ❋ Jylan1020 (2018)

Nick is [brussel sprouting] Christie by cooking and saying [Brussels] [Sprout], making her go crazy. ❋ 3rana (2019)

"[You people] say that Brussel Sprouts [taste good]". - A certain [wiseman] to a CCertaiN news media network. ❋ Darth_chacho (2020)

Person 1: oh! Did you see [brussel sprout] on the TV Person 2: yeah [ut] was [so funny] when he brussel sprout. ❋ Le Proffesuer (2019)

[Ewww]. [That girl] is [such a] brussel sprouts. ❋ Bethany Ann Jones (2011)

[That guy] has [some nasty] [brussel sprouts]. ❋ BLN123 (2010)

[Nuncio]: YUMMY [BRUSSEL SPROUTS]! MMMMMMMM!!!! Gangster: Imma kick yo fat little *ss for sayin that! Nuncio: YUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYY! Gangster: You [gonna get it]! *gangster shoots Nuncio* ❋ Tilatequilafan (2007)

'I was being [sodomized] by my buddy and at the point of ejaculation he pulled out and [brussel] [sprouted] me.' ❋ Stuart Slater (2005)