A jargonelle pear-tree at one end of the cottage, a rivulet and flower-plot of a rood in extent in front, and a kitchen-garden behind; a paddock for a cow, and a small field, cultivated with several crops of grain, rather for the benefit of the cottager than for sale, announced the warm and cordial comforts which Old England, even at her most northern extremity, extends to her meanest inhabitants. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And so this old pilgrim found it, lying in his four-poster, listening to the cries and calls in the jargonelle pear-tree in the corner of the garden, and watching the ghostly oblong of the window that faced the east, glimmer and brighten into the effulgence of day. ❋ Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1901)
There is nothing to equal or approach a fine jargonelle pear, a peach, or hothouse grapes. ❋ Unknown (1898)
You have really its equivalent in a luscious peach, in a hue ripe jargonelle pear, or in a strawberry at its best; and if you can imagine a combination of these three, you have an idea of how the mangosteen itself tastes. ❋ Unknown (1887)
They have never found any pear equal to that jargonelle, where you ate twenty the first day of the holidays. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
The acetate of amyloxide, which, according to the usual way of preparing it, represents one part sulphuric acid, one part fusel-oil, and two parts of acetate of potash, had a striking smell of fruit, but it acquired the pleasant flavor of the jargonelle pear only after having been diluted with six times its volume of spirit of wine. ❋ George William Septimus Piesse (1851)
The commercial "essence of pine-apple," or "pine-apple oil," and "jargonelle pear-oil," are admitted only to be _labelled_ such, but really are certain organic acid ethers. ❋ George William Septimus Piesse (1851)
Benson's bedroom, and its blossom-laden branches were supported by a jargonelle pear-tree rich in autumnal fruit. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)
'She craves for fruit, -- she has a constant fever on her; but jargonelle pears will do as well as anything, and there are quantities of them in the market.' ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)
Bailie Bowie helped himself to a jargonelle, and Deacon Purves to a wheen raisins; and my uncle, to show that he was not frighted, and knew what he was about, helped himself to one of the long black things, which, without much ceremony, he shoved into his mouth and began to. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
A particular attention ought to be paid to the kind of pear - tree which is pruned, becaufe the branches of feme kinds do not jproduce bearing fpurs fo readily as others; fuch are the rouffelet, cuiffe, madame, and jargonelle. ❋ Unknown (1768)
"The villain Laurie! to betray an auld friend that sang aff the same psalm-book wi 'him _every Sabbath_ for twenty years," and the tragedy of these last words of his, and of his expulsion from his former happy home -- "a jargonelle pear-tree at one end of the cottage, a rivulet and flower plot of a rood in extent in front, a kitchen garden behind, and a paddock for a cow" (viii. 6, of the 1830 edition) can only be understood by the reading of the chapter he quotes on that last Sabbath evening he passes in it -- the 5th of Nehemiah. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
