Gisco slipped his fingers under his chin, for the chin-piece of the helmet used in course of time to occasion two callosities there; these were called carobs, and “to have the carobs” was an expression used to denote a veteran. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The old woman presses Miryam's her head against teats that feel, through the rough fabric, like dry carobs dangling from a tree. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Sicily that al-Idrisi recorded was an island of carefully watered orchards and gardens where generations of Muslim technical expertise and commercial know-how had bequeathed a rich agriculture of lemons, almonds, pistachio nuts, cane sugar, dates, figs, carobs, and more. ❋ John Dickie (2008)
Miscellaneous materials, such as grass and lucerne meals, dried sugar-beet pulp, molasses and carobs, are also used. ❋ Unknown (1995)
_Isobutyric acid_ is found in the free state in carobs (_Ceratonia siliqua_) and in the root of _Arnica dulcis_, and as an ethyl ester in croton oil. ❋ Various (N/A)
About 40,000 quintals of these carobs are annually exported from Crete. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
To the warmest zone of olives, lemons and carobs succeeds that of the chestnuts, some of them of gigantic dimensions and yielding a sure though moderate return in fruit, others cut down periodically as coppice for vine-props and scaffoldings. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
He had climbed down the slippery stairs through that dank couloir or funnel in the rock overhung with drooping maidenhair and ivy and umbrageous carobs. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
On we drove, down the lovely vale of the Corace, through orange-groves and pine-woods, laurels and myrtles, carobs and olive trees, with the rain beating fiercely upon us, the wind swaying all the leafage like billows on a stormy sea. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
You look up from the bitter husks or carobs, and say, I must have more and better; and these more and better things are your cares. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
Feeding on carobs only, as they do, what shall we expect but to see them feed impatiently? ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
It is the unsatisfied, hungry mind that flies to the body for some stimulus of sensation, compelling it to devour so many more of the husks, or carobs, as will feed the hungry prodigal within. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
Milianah and descended towards the plain of the Chetiff by a steep pathway, delightfully shaded by jasmine, carobs and wild olives, between the hedges of little native gardens where a thousand bubbling springs trickled melodiously from rock to rock, a veritable Eden. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
And he says that the _cafiz_ of wheat was valued at eleven _maravedís_, and the _cafiz_ of barley at seven _maravedís_, and that of pulse or other grain at six; and the _arroba_ of honey at fifteen _dineros_; and the _arroba_ of carobs the third of a ❋ Various (1808)
Coming to another town, the Indians brought their children to touch the hands of the Spaniards, giving them meal made of a fruit like carobs, which was eaten along with a certain kind of earth, and was very sweet and agreeable. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Elsewhere, a mash of figs cook on the hot tarmac and shucked carobs, split by the sun, crackle beneath our wheels. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Early in the morning we would pick few unripe but sweet carobs and pound them with a clean stone on the rocks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Beyond Murviedro, vast fields shaded by olive trees and carobs, rich vineyards, and pictures of the most cheerful fertility accompany you, as you travel over a superb road, the whole of the way from that town to Castillon de la Plana, a borough seven leagues from Valentia., ❋ Unknown (1812)
_maravedi_, and of cheese three _dineros_, and of honey three, and of figs one; and the _panilla_ of oil was eight _dineros_, and the pound of colewort five, and the ounce of carobs three parts of a _dinero_, and the ounce of onions the same, and the head of garlick the same; and ❋ Various (1808)
The verdure of the country was lost in places beneath long sheets of yellow; carobs were shining like knobs of coral; vine branches drooped from the tops of the sycamores; the murmuring of the water could be heard; crested larks were hopping about, and the sun’s latest fires gilded the carapaces of the tortoises as they came forth from the reeds to inhale the breeze. ❋ Unknown (2003)
[I dont care] if he looks black, he is pure carob. May look like chocolate, but [ain't got] [the flavor]. ❋ Psumek (2004)
every time we go out to eat, as soon as the bill comes, this carob immediately gets up to [go to the bathroom] to avoid paying. he's like a [carob OG] cuz he never pays, doesn't care, and always has his [game face] on. ❋ Undercoverloverlover (2010)
see that guy over there with his socks [pulled up] to high, he's been getting away with wearing [dorky] clothes since [kindergarten], he's carob OG. ❋ Undercoverloverlover (2010)
