The girls were hungry enough to do justice to any fare, and they enjoyed Miss Sarah's excellent bread and butter and "cowcumbers" thoroughly. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Miss Sarah's excellent bread and butter and "cowcumbers" thoroughly. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Like other high-bred people of his time, he talked of "cowcumbers" and "laylocks," called a woman an ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
Rice-puddings can be grown, ready-made, by sowing rice with cowcumbers. ❋ Various (N/A)
I'll do the best I can for you in the way of tea but I warn you not to expect anything but bread and butter and some cowcumbers. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Timothy, I've gone 'n' forgot the whole pepper, 'n' we're goin 'to pickle seed cowcumbers to-morrer. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)
"What can be done in one place can in another," and he got all excited up, and took his old account-book out of his pocket and went to calculatin 'on how many cowcumbers he could raise in the winter down suller by the light of his old lantern. ❋ Marietta Holley (1881)
"Farmers always say cowcumbers instead of cucumbers." ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
There'll be some nice fat uns down aside where I grows my cowcumbers. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
Betsy Jane, now you're up after the crush, fetch them china sassers for the cowcumbers. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)
I hope E.G. R. will, however, not insist on classing those who say and write "mangold" with those who would write "reddishes, sparrowgrass, and cowcumbers." ❋ Various (1852)
If we should get burnt over a little, perhaps we could raise better squashes and cowcumbers than we do now. ❋ Unknown (1851)
-- Give me cowcumbers raised in the open air, said the Capitalist, who was a little hard of hearing. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
-- Give me cowcumbers raised in the open air, said the Capitalist, who was ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
'But, Betsy Prig' -- speaking with great feeling, and laying her hand upon her arm -- 'try the cowcumbers, God bless you!' ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
'A pleasant evenin ',' said the voice of Mrs Gamp, 'though warm, which, bless you, Mr Chuzzlewit, we must expect when cowcumbers is three for twopence. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
The whole Garden is not so large as our lower Garden, but vegitables are very dear in the market, cowcumbers sold at 3 shillings a peice a fort night ago. ❋ Unknown (1795)
This day Sir W. Batten tells me that Mr. Newburne (of whom the nickname came up among us forarse Tom Newburne) is dead of eating cowcumbers, of which, the other day, I heard another, I think Sir Nicholas Crisp's son. ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)
This day Sir W. Batten tells me that Mr. Newburne (of whom the nickname came up among us forarse Tom Newburne) is dead of eating cowcumbers, of which, the other day, I heard another, I think Sir Nicholas ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)
