| 单词 | vegetable |
| 例句 | She yes, ma’amed and no, sired and ate all her vegetables and went to bed on time. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She came to the dining room with a clean vegetable bowl in one hand and a drying cloth in the other. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Then he crossed the room to Hedwig’s cage and tipped the soggy vegetables at the bottom of the bowl into her empty food tray. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z ‘We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure back home you ate a lot of wonderful organic food and vegetables, but you re going to see it’s different here.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The most ruthless of the murder addicts was Av’s sister Lois, then just back from teaching for a year in Karachi, and a firm proponent of the hypocrisy of Indian vegetable eaters. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There’s a market down in Irishtown where the farmers come on Saturdays with their vegetables, hens, eggs, butter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Warders also gave me seeds of vegetables they liked, and I was supplied with excellent manure to use as fertilizer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby liked the fish dishes with vegetables and rice. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was scrubbing vegetables, and a parrot perched on her shoulder. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t very good quality; it smelled faintly of vegetable oil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The landing two stories up was half-filled with black plastic garbage bags and it smelled of rotting vegetables. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Most mornings, after the beach, she makes the rounds with Madame Manec, going to the vegetable market, occasionally to the butcher’s, then delivering food to whichever neighbors Madame Manec decides are most in need. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The middles didn’t crunch when I bit into them so I saved them for last like a vegetable. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The can of mixed vegetables is our last one before Pop Pop gets his check. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Lucas’s house sat less than a half acre beyond the vegetable garden to our right side. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “There are thirty-seven varieties of hydrangea, not lilac—and I plan to use the jars for canning fruits and vegetables.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As Ixtali rowed on, we passed a fisherman pulling up a turtle in his net and two women picking fresh vegetables from a floating garden. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Although it’s undeniably hot, we have to fight a fire every other day to burn our vegetable peelings and garbage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There was water to draw and linen to scrub and, everlastingly, the endless rows of vegetables to weed and hoe. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z We grew our own fruits and vegetables at Garland, but everything else had to be brought in from outside. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Ms. Solomon grew vegetables in her front yard. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Insects had devoured most of the leaves and vegetables, leaving behind skeletons of stems and branches. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To Leathers he said, “I’ll send out a bushel of vegetables for him and meat for you. Start a fire.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I put the food I had brought with me into the refrigerator—soup, vegetable cakes, tuna salad. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only safe to let go of him when Snape had seen them out of the castle and they were making their way across the vegetable patch toward the greenhouses. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z In one, about fifty young children squat in a row, pulling weeds and planting vegetables. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed corner markets with fruit and vegetables overflowing from displays outside, and at one point, the group had to wait for Bits, who had stopped to buy a mango for lunch. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z On the rare occasions that Min dismissed him early, he would hang around the house, looking for little chores to do—pulling weeds in her vegetable patch or sweeping the yard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z These were all staples that would take up too much room in the small vegetable garden near the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They were tiny but numerous; she took off her boot and then her sock, and filled its toe with the vegetables. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s nearsighted, but somehow she’s able to pick out the differences between the fruit vendors and the vegetable vendors, the faces of the various merchants, who has money and who doesn’t. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z There were always boats heading down to New York City, loaded up with vegetables or oysters or hogs to sell. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z In the dead of winter, nothing is growing, but stakes with seed packets affixed to them stick out of the ground, labeling herbs and vegetables. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z What I really want is a cigarette, and I'm always searching the menu in the hope that some courageous young chef has finally recognized tobacco as a vegetable. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Now it stored cookies, cases of wine, potato chips, root vegetables, seltzer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In return, we employ our staff from their villages, buy fruit and vegetables, and pay for wild fruits to be collected from the trees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I balanced the tray of vegetables on my lap and set to work, plucking the stalks and putting the leaves in a bowl at my feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Go on. I ain’t got much of an appetite. It’s ham and cheese. No vegetables or nothing. Share it with your dog if you want.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The vegetables were small and withered, the flowers leached of their color, confusing the birds and the bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They walked past the vegetable, fish, and meat markets —not as abundant as in Canton, the carp not as red, the turtles not as old—and entered the cigar and seed shop. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We lost everything over the weekend. It’s all gone, all the vegetables. All our vegetables. My string beans. I wanted you to eat my string beans, and now they’re dead.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z There were just a lot of vegetables rolling around on the floor, tomatoes and onions and green peppers. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The roommates kept a stewpot simmering perpetually on the stove, tossing in a scrounged vegetable when they had it or a scrap of meat when flush, and squabbling over spare potatoes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Every kind of fruit and vegetable I knew seemed to grow in the garden, and there was even more abundance here than on my uncles’ farms. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Calamity followed Finn as he weeded and watered their puny half acre of new vegetables—asparagus, kale, onion, beans, carrots, spinach, beets, broccoli, tomatoes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Manny, the farmer we bought our fruits and vegetables from, held my mom for, like, ten minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She was reduced to eating the pumpkin leaves when every one of the new vegetables was devoured by beetles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I actually like carrots, so I ate some too, because I saw that Erin’s plan was working and I don’t really care that people laugh when I eat those orange vegetables. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The base people eat the berries and vegetables from the community gardens, but the new people are punished if they do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were the little kids playing hide-and-seek between the pushcarts piled high with fruits and vegetables. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z California searches vehicles for vegetables and fruits which might carry pernicious insects and diseases, and regulations of these are enforced with almost religious intensity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At the nearby open-air market, she bargained for fish, chicken, rice, vegetables, and salt. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The crew rushed over the beach, hauling the water casks and sacks of vegetables on board. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Countless cheeses, breads, vegetables, sweets, waterfalls of wine, and streams of spirits that flicker with flames. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The air was heavy and full of smoke, and of other smells besides: acrid chemicals, decaying vegetable matter, sewage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Would you like to buy some crawfish or minnows? Maybe you’d like some fresh vegetables or roasting ears.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, the food at Pollsmoor was far superior; after years of eating pap three meals a day, Pollsmoor’s dinners of proper meat and vegetables were like a feast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the yard was an ocean of green grass, punctuated only by a clothesline, a barbecue, a hedge along one fence, and an assortment of fruit trees and vegetable patches. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Exactly what I’d wear to the studio if I weren’t bound to the root vegetable look. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There were also—in the store—seeds of all kinds: corn, wheat, oats, barley, and most kinds of truck vegetables and fruit—almost everything that will grow here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Kathy devoured it all—the fresh vegetables and fish, the yogurts, the lamb! Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z "Don't forget these. They're popular now. The Minister of Health says we all should ingest colorful vegetables and even flowers. It's beneficial, supposedly." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I returned to the chest freezer but there was no more ice, just a dozen bags of frozen vegetables, so I dumped them in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The farm that once stood there had burned long ago, but the vegetable pit remained. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Even if the family doesn’t love us, they do feed us a sufficient amount of rice, fish that the boys catch in the river, and vegetables from the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wished, too, that she was not so interested in this new restaurant, did not perk up, imagining fresh green salads and steamed still-firm vegetables. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The farms of the rich little valley back up to the river and take its water for the orchards and the vegetables. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was delicious, but we both hated to see those long yellow-white hairs floating around the vegetables. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They like vegetables, especially eggplants, and they like to raid farmers’ crops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One day in late September, Richard and I are in the field harvesting vegetables. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Finally, she became a tiny little old woman, peddling vegetables from door to door in Auburn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Nate crawled along his uncle’s vegetable garden, tugging up weeds and flicking away fat green worms. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z George was already sitting down, poking at mushy strands of vegetable with her spork. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z His parents were in the kitchen chopping vegetables. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She never asked about the stores themselves, about what vegetables were selling, how the employees were working out, nothing ever about the painstaking, plodding nature of the work. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As she wet me down with the vegetable sprayer, I could feel my hair collapsing from its planetoid shape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The churned-up dust settled back against the road, some of it mingling with the large dirt rectangle that had once housed Mom’s vegetable garden. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I would eat vegetables only if they were canned, and I hated the bright green crunchy ones she steamed and claimed were healthier. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The pickup has a covering on the bed that I guess they use to transport the vegetables and fruits. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The plates are piled high with golden-brown noodles, colorful cooked vegetables with tofu, and deep-fried, orange-glazed chicken. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There were vegetable gardens, cattle and goat pens, and fields of lucerne for the animals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom grew vegetables in a garden—cassava, corn, beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Throughout the Orient, people shop at outdoor marketplaces where goods such as fish, vegetables, silk, and spices are openly displayed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Pheasant with a selection of jewel-colored jellies, and tiny versions of real vegetables swimming in butter, and potatoes mashed with parsley. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Large women in bright head scarves sat behind heaps of vegetables outside the Portuguese store. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They only took what they could carry, but you could buy vegetables, bread, jewelry, blankets, clothes, lots of stuff. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the hut, with the baby balanced on my hips, I watch the mother squat next to the rows of vegetables and proceed to pull the weeds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hanako sliced vegetables, trying to make each slice attractive and perfect. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I emerged into the garden, where the dying stalks of vegetable plants leaned against one another and rustled like thin, dry bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mother says we’ll skip breakfast, eat hot cereal and bread for lunch and fried potatoes for dinner and, if possible, vegetables or lettuce once or twice a week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He was a devout Buddhist who ate no meat and so few vegetables that I doubt if a grasshopper could have lived on what he ate. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As they rode home, she vowed that she would never eat this queer green vegetable either. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Tables sagged under the weight of venison, roast pig, smoked fish, and every kind of vegetable and desirable fruit. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And Father made a vegetable patch in the garden and I helped him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Your husband needs milk and vegetables and butter, not plain rice day after day.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z By the fourth day, the porridge was glistening with fat, and great hunks of meat and colorful vegetables were steaming on top. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “C’mon, how bad could it be? When I was little, your grandma made us eat fried rabbit livers with pepper jelly. You kids have it easy. We got blackened vegetables on the good days.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I shoveled stale-smelling chili onto my plate and poked my fork at the lumpy chunks of beef, kidney beans, and vegetables. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z They sit around the grill in a half-circle while the chef chops madly and simmers the beef and vegetables on the grill and makes the jokes he’s likely made a hundred times. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He smelled sizzling catfish skin and vegetable dumplings and the human odors of too many bodies living too close together. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Give me plastics, periodical tables, t.v. dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Egyptians then domesticated the sycamore fig and a local vegetable called chufa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Is it animal?” asked the King, “vegetable or mineral?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “All these vegetables,” Emma said, gesturing to the garden beds in the yard. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z My ears missed the snap of apple pancakes in the pan and my eyes missed the rainbow of fruits and vegetables sealed in jars on the shelves. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Rotten vegetables carpeted the bare concrete and maggot-infested meat smeared the brick walls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The combination of olive oil, hearty vegetables, and cheese that comes from goat's milk, mixed with decent servings of fish and meat, had been shown in numerous studies to promote longevity. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Not only is there stew, but also curried chicken, lentils, rice with vegetables, naan, salad, and yogurt sauce. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Each bag had a box of rice, a can of red beans, a can of mixed vegetables, and two cans of tomato soup. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In that first week at the Creek, the cafeteria served fried chicken, chicken- fried steak, and fried okra, which marked my first foray into the delicacy that is the fried vegetable. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Or maybe they would just appreciate some fresh fruits and vegetables in their diets. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At noon she would rush home and fix Chester some delicacy for lunch, like a midget fruit salad or an entire vegetable dinner so small you could serve it on a silver dollar. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She would sit in the backyard with him, or play with Baby, or watch him weed the vegetable patch. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And possibly, if I can pick up a can of pre-war vegetables, about dinner, too. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The street took a sharp turn and then ended in a flight of steps which led down into a sunken alley where a few stallkeepers were selling tired-looking vegetables. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The miles went by quickly, and we passed around the water, vegetables, and chapatis, never stopping to rest. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “That there army from cursed town,” he says, still driving along like we’re talking about vegetables. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z At the back of a truck, people in reflective jackets carry boxes of vegetables, sacks of food and bags of flour into a large tent. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z On the right were neat beds of vegetables and herbs, arranged like spokes around a big sparkling fountain where bronze satyrs spewed water into a central bowl. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z An even more spacious garden spread out in back, which boasted apple trees, a vegetable garden, a strip of flowers, and a patch of wattles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not eaten anything but raw vegetables in several days, and had not tasted chicken in many months. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Next year there would be a marketplace where the villagers could sell and buy vegetables and chickens and other goods. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z On the second day, we noticed that our portions were larger and a few more vegetables accompanied our pap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We just have to wait till he leave for our vegetables.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even with fishing, I had a big garden that I worked on, grew my own vegetables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her which grains had protein, which vegetables had carotene, which fruits were too sugary He knew about everything; she was intimidated by this and proud of this and slightly repelled by this. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Parvin helped us as always, doing laundry, washing dishes, and chopping vegetables for dinner, but the work kept piling up. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She could hardly remember the countless ideas that used to spin in her mind as she washed clothes or chopped vegetables. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z She also knows where the yellowdock and mustard greens grow in case she wants fresh vegetables. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, even if they had very little food, I’m just saying it was probably all organic vegetables, none of the Frankenfood we have here,” Kimberly said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The vegetable garden was completely stripped, but the flower plot remained though its plants were trampled. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Liquid has seeped from the decomposing vegetables and pooled on the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “But yeah, your vegetables will be the best.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “There are so many unique fruits and vegetables in Puerto Rico. See this here?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Bree makes me a plate, collecting different meats and vegetables from all the carts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I forgot about the vegetables Mom left out for me to chop. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Mounds of meats and vegetables in rich and fragrant sauces. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The camp is surrounded by huge vegetable gardens on all sides. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It came topped with a mound of canned vegetables: peas, corn, carrot coins, potatoes, and diced turnips. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “You don’t need a clock. Think. At the beginning of the book, that girl walks through the vegetable garden—” “Meg.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “I do, too, but I’m not sure we have time. Besides all the gettin’ ready, I got to can some vegetables. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The planting season was over, but if the weather didn’t turn too cold before the vegetables ripened, she ought to get some results. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama sliced off the rotten parts and made soup with the good vegetable pieces, mixing them with bones she bought at the butcher shop. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Even Cooky, for all his tricks with vegetable peelings and bone broth, couldn’t ease the twinge in their guts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The meat was brown and the vegetables had once been green. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z They bypassed quiet residential neighborhoods and a shuttered local vegetable market. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Out in the fields, where he weeded and harvested from August to October, he snacked on corn, cabbage, and other vegetables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was a long silence, and Alfred studied the green vegetable stains on Lou's apron. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, the game over, Ralph approached Helen as she chopped vegetables. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr. Fitzgibbon. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He came back with three bushel baskets full of groceries, fresh apples and oranges, garden vegetables, and two chickens. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Meat alone does not make a meal, though, so there were fruits and grains and vegetables as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Especially because the last time I told a really, really tiny lie about eating all of my vegetables when really I gave them to Jimmie, Ollie Mae gave me a whipping. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “There were shortages of food everywhere, and the guards’ food was not much better than ours, but at least their vegetables were clean and not rotten, and their bread was not made with sawdust.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s in the wax that coats the other vegetables in the produce section. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Well, I like that! Where’s the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised?” cried John, rushing to the larder. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I have a little plot of vegetables. Not now, obviously; it's winter. But in the summer. Why?” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z There’s a tray of vegetables in the center of the coffee table with a small bowl of hummus for dipping. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The only disturbing factor in all our lives was the reappearance of the white vegetables each morning in the kitchen. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z She would chop vegetables and I would peel potatoes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z You’re there to sell vegetables, to pick up a job for the day, or maybe just to enjoy the sights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I don’t know that Bunnicula fully understood what was going on, but the sight of the vegetables piled high in the center of the table sent him scurrying in their direction. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Our vegetables were ripe and I could smell the scent of tomato leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When highlanders go into the forest on hunting trips, they take along garden-grown vegetables to feed themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would start to make dinner, but would stop halfway, the water running full steam in the sink, her knife poised in the air over half-chopped vegetables, silent, tears flowing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ashima sets out paper plates that have to be tripled to hold the weight of the biryani, the carp in yogurt sauce, the dal, the six different vegetable dishes she’d spent the past week preparing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After eating rice and vegetables, I slept for a long time, preparation for the work ahead. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the delight I caught in seeing long straight rows of red and green vegetables stretching away in the sun to the bright horizon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I have stolen vegetables from the garden I planted myself, and eaten them raw, or cooked them over a fire at night. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Helda, on May’s orders, kept the Korean foodstuffs down here, the earthenware jars of pickled vegetables and meats, the fermented seasoning pastes and sauces, strips of dried seafood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragging the useless leg, she took a thick earthen bowl from a shelf and went to the fire, where a large pot simmered and smelled of herbs and vegetables. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I was never much of a hand around the kitchen—I’ll admit that I tried to get out of chopping vegetables or cleaning dishes whenever I could—so I didn’t linger there long. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “If I get started I have no self-control. My son Will says I talk to trees when I can’t find a human vegetable.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If you include all the farmland growing fruits and vegetables for Earthbound it comes to a total of 25,000 organic acres. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They loaded up their trays as usual, to avoid suspicion, but carefully avoided touching their forks to anything but green vegetables. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z By the time I finished restocking the entire canned vegetable section at work I was convinced I would be a vegetable if I smoked. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Racks of fruits and vegetables had been set out in front of small grocery stores, further blocking the already crowded sidewalks. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Salvador’s old shirt clung to her, and as she twisted the vegetables from their stems, she felt her back begin to itch. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Others offer to carry purchases of fruits and vegetables from stall to stall in rustic wooden wheelbarrows in exchange for tips. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I went down the counter with a big trash bag, adding the cabbage to the rest of the mulched vegetables. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z After months of nothing but salt-water-bleached smells, this reek of vegetable organic matter was intoxicating. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Jabbing upward, I use the vegetable stake to poke around until I feel it—the iron latch inside the door—and I try to use the stake to swing the latch up into place. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He hadn’t changed out of his work clothes, and his shirt and the knees and cuffs of his pants were stained with the slick juice of spoiled vegetables. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My basket of vegetables dragged heavily on my arm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Just vegetable gardens, which the women took care of, and chickens and pigs that the children took care of. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And oddly enough, there have been no problems with vegetables mysteriously turning white since. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z “Briar Farm is mine, over by the lake. Mostly vegetables and poultry.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The straw- filled mattress was lumpy and smelled of moldy vegetables, but it was better than anything she had felt in a long time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z You've made it very clear that they are closer to shower mold than they are to real vegetables. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Grandma usually made fresh biscuits and vegetables for us even when we were only having a tiny speck of meat. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Farmers stored vegetables for their own household use in pits the size of a room. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The rice was a little overcooked—her fault!—but it still tasted very good, and even the vegetables seemed delicious. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The laughing girl, the girl who chopped wood and danced in the dirt and talked to pigs and carried dressers and grew enough vegetables to feed a city would leave? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Besides never leaving their things lying around, and always making their beds, they put rice on for supper and chopped vegetables. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We can do our laundry in the ole lady’s house and eat the vegetables from the side- yard garden. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was meat to be chopped, and vegetables to prepare for the midday meal. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Lee, anticipating a brisk business, brought a big packing case out and put it into the vegetable department. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Tuesday, silly. Squash day. Why is squash the only vegetable that has a game named after it?” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I was sitting at the kitchen counter while Dad chopped vegetables and Mom browned some beef in a skillet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was clear that I was unused to bleaching palm oil, that I was used to vegetable oil, which did not need bleaching. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She took the vegetables she raised, flint and tinder, a machete. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We began, too, to pickle vegetables and present them as gifts to visiting dignitaries, along with jars of honey from our new beehives. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Silver fish scales flew around the kitchen, landing on kettles, walls, vegetable peelers, the fridge handle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got closer to her she lifted both bags and so I picked up the box; it was very heavy, full of glass jars and tins of pickled vegetables and meats. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The meal would also include potatoes and a vegetable. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “One useless six-pack of water,” Alex said, “a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, two cans of tuna, and a box of Wheaties. What else do you have in real food?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Dustfinger hurried to the high wall behind which Capricorn's garden lay: vegetable beds, fruit trees, and herbs, protected by the wall from the cold wind that sometimes blew from the nearby mountains. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The yard was neatly trimmed, but it didn’t have any flower beds or a little vegetable garden like Ivy’s house had. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She cooked their bitter leaves as a vegetable. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Neighbors would get together once a week and order organic vegetables from farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She stops and talks and buys potatoes and carrots from a young woman who sits behind hills of vegetables. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z By the time they made enough money to send for her, having replaced the horse and vegetable wagon with a truck, she was almost twenty and crazy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This information comes in handy when he pesters me to finish my vegetables. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She shrieked and the neighborhood ladies buying vegetables laughed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s like a tomato rice soup with chicken and lots of vegetables. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z To refocus her eyes, she looked out over the field before she bent once more to cut the deep-green vegetables from their vines. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “It’s a vegetable. It’s round and green and has no business being in any dish, ever.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Besides this, she always had to keep one eye on our very active pig to keep him from rooting in our small vegetable patch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Grim and Gram just look at each other like they can't believe I'm so dumb, and finally Gram says, "Maxwell, dear, make an effort to eat your vegetables." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The afternoon Mama left, Ugwu found Amala in the vegetable garden, crouched on the ground with her knees drawn up, arms around her legs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The village was on the bank of a great river where lush fruits and vegetables grew, but no one was allowed to eat anything because it all belonged to the crocodile. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the late afternoon I fertilized the vegetable garden, this time using manure. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z That way if a peddler come by selling vegetables I might get something fresh. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Salads and roast chickens and vegetables and soups and such. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Out in back is a homely garden that, even now, in mid-April, has root vegetables waiting to be dug—blighted potatoes and yams and tough-skinned carrots and turnips. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He snuffed in every corner, in the barn, in the cow-shed, in the hen-houses, in the vegetable garden, and found traces of Snowball almost everywhere. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They snuck outside, filled their arms with vegetables, and brought them back to their room, where they ate and fell asleep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was trying to bring to the table wild pig, wild mushrooms, fresh local fruit, and garden-picked vegetables all at the same time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Harry wondered what he was doing; it looked as though he were making a new vegetable patch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In each container, herbs I recognize from class are growing next to vegetables I’ve never seen before. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Her mother stood in the kitchen chopping vegetables for soup. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A gate in the wall led out into a kitchen garden, where beds of vegetables and herbs lay baking under the morning sun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not the carrot soup and vegetable cakes and Greek pasta I had brought that morning from Bread and Circus. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Cornflower then thought of the sentries up on the wall, and she set about making a large pan of vegetable soup. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “This is a good market for us to sell fruits and vegetables.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The courses appear in rapid succession—savory rabbit and roasted duck and fish, platters of vegetables and salads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She spots the blue of the women’s dresses and kerchiefs in the crop rows of the eleven-acre vegetable garden. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As Jenner had predicted, there was a big freezer, well stocked—bread, meat, vegetables, everything—and a whole room full of shelves covered with canned food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Women grumbled in Chinese as they picked through vegetables and melons that he’d never seen before. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Mama stood in the kitchen doorway, arms at her sides, loosely clutching a vegetable knife in her fingers. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z As with the fruit and vegetables on Tía Darma’s farm, the photos can’t fully capture the colors that emerge when the final rays of the sun hit the water. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z There are beds of squash, root vegetables Sergio calls yucca, and a tree with big green fruit that looks like spiky footballs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z All the sunshine meant there were vegetables earlier than there should have been, and given the dire straits we were supposedly in, there seemed to be lots of food. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Diligent mice tended the neat little vegetable patches which every season gave forth an abundance of fresh produce: cabbages, sprouts, marrows, turnips, peas, carrots, tomatoes, lettuces and onions, all in their turn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It was shady, but foul with rotting vegetables and debris from the meat market. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “As if a morsel of vegetable would kill you,” she muttered. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They made their way directly to the kitchen, where, despite Frypan’s grumbling, they were able to get cheese sandwiches and raw vegetables. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the face of the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal—or even just a simple thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, while she pulled weeds from the vegetable gardens, her mind wandered to their first meeting by the river, when she first caught his eye. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first meal in Spain was always a shock with the hors d'oeuvres, an egg course, two meat courses, vegetables, salad, and dessert and fruit. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They would be storing the root vegetables soon. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I stared at the different colored vegetables in front of me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After the next explosion two men dash across the fifty yards to the dug-out with the pots of vegetables. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At the microscopic level, the protein cubes were solid food particles suspended in thick vegetable oil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, señor,” said Doña Lola from the back of the room, “none of the fruits or vegetables on your chart grow in Puerto Rico.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There isn’t a ceiling, just four columns surrounding the wooden square where several strange plants and vegetables are growing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z What is the voice, I meditated, but an expulsion of air; a few vapors scented with the curdled decoctions of the stomach, vegetables mulching and pulverized beef? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This was a habit of his, perhaps because he worked with fruits and vegetables all day, randomly sampling them for freshness and flavor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “English? Anyone?” he shouted, standing among hundreds of people, all picking over fruits and vegetables and swatting away flies as they walked slowly along the narrow, cart-filled street. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I was hired to sell a miracle vegetable chopper on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z After a while she began to raise chickens and a small vegetable garden in the little yard beside our house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The pantry is shelved floor to ceiling with pickles and soup jars, molasses, put-up vegetables, and preserves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The locksmith brings back a shirtful of vegetables and fills a tin bucket at a spigot and eases shut the barn door and feeds his daughter in the dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Spell ‘vegetable,’” he suggested, for it was one that always troubled him at school. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now why would Tadas be talking of hell?” asked Papa, reaching for the vegetables. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z All around his house were small square patches of things enclosed in fences to keep the rabbits out, and—as Harry said—to keep the flowers and vegetables in. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z If we did get a vegetable, we would usually have the same one for weeks on end, until the carrots or cabbage were old and moldy and we were thoroughly sick of them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jay went to feed the chickens and get a few eggs, and Doc went to dig the vegetables out of the ground: sweet potatoes, mustard greens, onions. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Apples, peaches, and plums grew abundantly on the plantation, as well as dozens of vegetables that Amari had never seen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She only stopped for bathroom breaks and to scarf down canned vegetable soup and peanut-butter sandwiches. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z While 7-Building’s yard contained a running path, benches, vegetable gardens, and a great view of the Hudson River, the SHU had a bare blacktop courtyard divided in two by a chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the goats in the huge stewpot that hung above the fire, while Roskva and her mother cut up their winter stores of vegetables and dropped them into the stewpot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Threw in the vegetables, then beef, then broth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The market square inside the Gate of the Gods, which in normal times would have been thronged with farmers selling vegetables, was near deserted when Tyrion crossed it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As we left the markets with our sandals and some fabric Mama had bought, we saw a small crowd gathered around the vegetable stalls we had passed earlier, the ones lining the road. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z My neighbors filled the aisles, sifting through the vegetables and fruit. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The government will give payments to farmers for all the corn they can produce, but not for growing vegetables or fruit. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Charlise says that farm-to-table means that the chicken is supposed to still be clucking when it’s on your plate and the vegetables taste like wet soil. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Horse-drawn wagons clattered up and down the cobblestone street, bringing in more fresh vegetables, squawking chickens, and squealing pigs. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And thankfully, her mother was busy with the vegetable garden, so she didn’t notice Stella slipping in a little later than usual. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Dinner was some kind of stewed meat and vegetables. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z We didn’t have any other food we were used to eating, like chicken, vegetables, or our coveted whole milk. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We planted a garden, so we had fresh vegetables to eat, including cabbage, something I had never eaten before. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a passionate chef who put great store in the healthfulness of fresh ingredients from the Mieles’ vegetable garden or the greengrocers in Park Slope. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Today in the average supermarket there’s a selection of organic fruits and vegetables flown in from all over the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On the twenty-sixth day of the fifteen-day march, the last of the vegetables was consumed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But when he’s preparing potatoes, beans or vegetables, he seems to be totally absorbed in his task. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She goes forth nearly every day to scrounge up vegetables, and then bicycles back with her purchases in large shopping bags. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We didn’t even have time to harvest the corn and vegetables we had planted near our huts. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl brought in a big bowl of hot vegetable soup and the wine. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Their backyard is full of vegetables that they grow and send to us to eat. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “I can eat unadulterated vegetables. Or if you have any red bean salad handy—or stuffed cabbage leaves? Broccoli and lentil casserole? Macaroni and cheese? Vegetarian spaghetti?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z After the work, there were great quantities of food—chicken, pork, vegetables, corn bread, fruit—better food than the herring and corn meal field hands usually saw so much of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Chickens wandered the aisles; women walked back and forth carrying packages on their heads and selling bags of peanuts and dried vegetables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And even if I somehow survived the mini- Hoover, I was supposed to suffer serious brain damage during the procedure and live the rest of my life as a vegetable. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She staggers a little, and a bowl of hot vegetable soup topples off her tray and lands on my sneakers. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She looked forward to the task— they would take turns pounding the vegetable into a wooden bowl with a stick almost as tall as Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s another one about starting your own business and another about fruits and vegetables. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The water was cold and almost black with vegetable material. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My mom and dad had already left to buy the morning vegetables for the day’s menu. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The other half was vegetables from her garden: snap beans, four turnips, a cabbage. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They built row houses and single ones with big yards and vegetable gardens. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Each street was devoted to a different product: fruit, vegetables, clothes, crockery and soap. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was like a pot of vegetable soup boiling on a stove, everything moving. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z But then I got closer still, and looked a little harder, and realized they weren’t fruits and vegetables at all, but organs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Though she didn’t know the names of the vegetables she lay among, she recognized his as onions. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I made him take broth and soup and fruit and vegetable juices. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks. So do I still have to get all the ripe vegetables from the garden?” she moaned, sagging against the shovel. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When I carried the groceries back and left them on the porch, there was smoke coming from the chimney, and the milk, eggs, and vegetables were gone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He has brought me more food too—fluffy rice and spicy vegetable curry. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z That turtle would still he alive, kicking and trying to get away while the man was standing in the store, poring over the vegetables, buying garlics and peppers to cook it up with. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The soup pot bubbled on the stove, the fragrant smell of herbs and vegetables drifting through the kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She could chop fish, meat, and vegetables on a butcher-block cutting board—all with one hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I surveyed the meat, vegetables, and dough Mama had set out on the counter. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The first of the town houses look empty: windows shuttered, doors locked, vegetable gardens overgrown and untended. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Besides the chicken and vegetables, the tray has coffee, hot water, a teabag, milk, sugar, salt, pepper, juice, yogurt, and a cookie. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She started a fire and cooked some vegetables. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I hope they didn’t waste them on mindless tasks: kindling the evening fire and cutting vegetables for dinner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Morning,” I grumbled, taking the basket and shuffling outside to fill it with the ripest vegetables and fruit I could find. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the morning, when he woke, big, egg-shaped pots of corn- and-bean mash would be on the fire, simmering with meat, vegetables, or dried fish to make a slow-cooked dinner stew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We eat vegetable ramen for dinner, which Hiroshi made specifically because of me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Every few weeks, UN workers would deliver the rations of rice, beans, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and a flour mixture called sosoma, made of soybeans, sorghum, and corn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z One of them is a scene behind the windmill, with fenced-in gardens, the city down the hill in the distance; the other is of vegetable gardens in Montmartre, with the windmills sails in the distance. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Buying all these fancy vegetables is eating up my whole salary,” Dina grumbles. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Facing the sharp edge without ever touching it, she took whole vegetables between her hands and hacked them apart: cauliflower, cabbage, butternut squash. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They must have served stewed garlic and squash for the breakfast vegetable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z At first she was wildly industrious, cleaning out closets and scrubbing the insides of kitchen cupboards and scraping the shelves of the refrigerator, rinsing out the vegetable bins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “We could do roasted vegetables for the side dish. We’ve never messed those up before.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Every Sunday, I would supply vegetables to the kitchen so that they could cook a special meal for the common-law prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With that funny white dressing on it, they would never notice if a few vegetables were white. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z And this one had found a way of making chocolate out of sugar, chemicals, brown coloring and vegetable oil. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I also gave quite a lot of my harvest to the warders, who used to bring satchels to take away their fresh vegetables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Valencia was hysterical, because she had been told frankly that Billy might die, or that, if he lived, he might be a vegetable. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to think of everything alive, the garden colorful and bursting with vegetables, better than it was when we were there. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Back through the vegetable garden he went, and he paused for a moment to smash a green muskmelon with his heel, but he was not happy about it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She prepared fish and soup every night; meat or pork every other; at least four kinds of namool, prepared vegetables, and then always something fried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The slime was bat guano, digested vegetable matter that had been excreted by a colony of fruit bats on the ceiling. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also little side dishes of pickled vegetables and garlic yogurt and the still-warm disks of fresh bread that my dad baked every evening. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I steam the fish and vegetables in violet leaves, and we eat by the river, admiring the kingfishers who dive into the water and come up with fish every time. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just beef and vegetables, salt and water. And a ham hock.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z However, many was the time I’d find my vegetables left in the abandoned camp. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One day in October Mr. Pirzada asked upon arrival, "What are these large orange vegetables on people’s doorsteps? A type of squash?" Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In the small towns, there are open-air markets: chickens and geese in elaborate bamboo baskets, vegetables laid out in rows on the ground, slabs of pork on tables, tobacco being sold in big clumps. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Alex put the vegetables and the juice boxes and the spinach and the lima beans and the rice and the Cheerios into his backpack. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He felt the hot breath of the elephant as the trunk embraced his pumpkin and then he sensed the sides of the pumpkin squeezing as the vegetable passed down into the great creature’s throat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps Laura's blended vegetables and strict diet rules had left the child malnourished. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This very sort of contamination has created endless problems for at least one leading manufacturer of baby foods who has been unwilling to buy any fruits or vegetables on which toxic insecticides have been used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On graduation day Dee-Dee and I opened up the store, set out the meats, stacked the fresh vegetables, and I worked behind the counter until it was time to go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept an herb garden for her “medicinals,” as she called them, and a much smaller vegetable garden than Ma Charles’s, but she had no hard, fast rules about where everything came from. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “I just made pizza, super-healthy, whole wheat crust, no cheese, just vegetables.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The rainy season was past and so, therefore, was the largest supply of vegetables. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, a woman upstairs begged her to accept a bag of frozen meats and vegetables, because she was moving the next day, and she hated to see good food go to waste. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's nature's magic vegetable. If a person ate nothing but raw onions, he could live to be two hundred years old." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She worked carefully, wasting little of the vegetable, making a neat pile of ends on the table before her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere lawns and gardens flourished—residents promised to keep weeds pulled, to grow only flowers, never vegetables. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Maybe I can ask my family if you can work for them? They will need help. They raise wheat and rice and vegetables. They could pay you with food...maybe.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And that's why my parents were convinced that it was my proclivity for sweets and aversion to vegetables that caused my acne. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Candles were broken and vegetables squashed across the walls. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z General Matsika scooped out the bad vegetables when he found them, but he didn’t attempt to get them all. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z James looked in the nylon bag that held his grandmother’s vegetables. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When they reached Jerusalem, after passing the usual daily things—vegetable carts, sheep, stores, family vineyards propped on poles—the taxi turned sharply onto a gray industrial-looking street. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I chop vegetables and boil pasta, pour a carton of chicken stock into a pot. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She remembers the time difference—her father must be at work already at the Desh offices, her mother at the market, a burlap bag in hand, buying vegetables and fish. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The counters were loaded with cut vegetables, and Diego’s sister stood by the sink, shucking corn. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Although the jars of fruits and vegetables were too big to carry, who was to say I could not help myself to them right there in the food cellar? Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z At the other end of the table was a trio of fourth-grade girls—one in orange, one in green, one in yellow, like the vegetable medley on their trays. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Might it not turn out to be a vegetable ship that brought me to land? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He continued to find cans of meats and vegetables, jars of fruit and peanuts. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The giant was dangling a bloody corpse by one leg, the same way Arya used to dangle her doll when she was small, swinging it like a momingstar when menaced by vegetables. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Those vegetables,” he said, “that Old Granny buys from you. What price does she pay you?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In the autumn, vegetable stands along Leesburg Pike sell pumpkins and butternut squash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There is the vegetable store worker in the fatigue jacket, the call car driver, the delivery men. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “And we can each have a can of soup for supper tomorrow. We have the can of mixed vegetables and a can of carrots and a can of peas. Won’t you get food tomorrow?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Other towns sent livestock, chickens, and carts of vegetables. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In addition to vegetables and fruits, they eat insects, grass, roots, and small pieces of clay, which they chew and swallow, perhaps to get salt and minerals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two undercooks were kneading bread, and a maid was slicing vegetables. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m scared to try it,” Oliver replied, poking at a piece of blackened vegetable. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Our fridge is stocked with all sorts of goodies: fresh fruits, meats, and vegetables. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z With six children to feed we could no longer afford to eat all the vegetables we grew. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z One part of the government puts out food pyramids telling you to eat more fruits and vegetables and fewer sweets. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We are surrounded from babyhood by familiar farm and domestic animals, fruits and trees and vegetables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A “food cycle” is a period in which we have only one particular dish or type of vegetable to eat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Who knew beautiful weather, old architecture, a gorgeous countryside, and exotic fruits and vegetables could do that to a person? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z You cook the meat in animal fat over high heat to sear it, then add potatoes and vegetables and the rest. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Through my bedroom window, I watched Ali and Hassan push the wheelbarrows loaded with meat, naan, fruit, and vegetables up the driveway. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “We could catch our own fish, grow vegetables…” “Catch fish—uuugh!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, right. I expect you to be making soup from scratch next, with organic vegetables you grew in your garden out in the country.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Now, sir,” said the Bulldog in his business-like way, “are you animal, vegetable, or mineral?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I gagged when I smelled the greenish-black crust that lined the hull, with its odor of old vegetables and the special Alabama grease Nana always smothered on my cuts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But whereas some food is kept in the filing cabinets in the office, dishes and cooking fat and vegetables are kept in glass-fronted sectional bookcases in the kitchen. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the years a variety of fruits and vegetables, grown in various states, have had to be rejected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Odors of meat, vegetables, and something freshly baked mixed with a scent of Fels Naphtha. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Liter on Mrs. Trace brought him a plate full of old-people food: vegetable stuff with rice and the combread right on top. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the seeds I purchased and some — for example, broccoli and carrots — were given to me by the commanding officer, Brigadier Munro, who was particularly fond of these vegetables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The dogs that the Aztecs and Polynesians reared for food were efficiently fattened on vegetables and garbage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On Fridays people ate fish or vegetables with no meat because of God. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Garland was so simple—seven acres of land containing exactly one house, one barn, a vegetable garden, fruit trees, a pickup truck, and only one other person. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A few years before I was born he had settled the family on a twenty-two-acre farm near Watsonville, California, raising apples, strawberries, and a few vegetable crops. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, they were sure easier to stuff in our pockets than whole vegetables would have been, but I doubted if God took any real interest in travel difficulties. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “All kin’s a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We’d jus’ live there. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I never thought I’d want to be called a vegetable...or is a tomato a fruit? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Whenever she had a chance, she slipped outdoors to work in the vegetable garden or to tend to the animals with her father. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Fruits and vegetables from her parched garden, no doubt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘The human bean has two legs and a vegetable has no legs at all.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The extra fridge is reserved for making kimchi, fermented vegetables that sit in there for weeks. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He built our house with his own hands, and Mom’s vegetable garden fed us year-round. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He smelled rancid as usual from working with vegetables, but more so that night, as if he’d fallen into the compost heap. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned to deftly lift a slice of meat or a helping of vegetables with serving spoon and fork neatly manipulated in one hand while holding the dish with the other. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z All Dell really knew with certainty was that now someone was steaming mounds of spinach in a kitchen that had never under his watch seen a vegetable in its raw form. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The old woman had been chopping vegetables, and she was holding a very large, shiny knife when she turned to see the three visitors enter her home. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z After that fateful contact with endrin, this normal, healthy child became little more than a vegetable — unable to see or hear, subject to frequent muscular spasms, apparently completely cut off from contact with his surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When the diet failed, she considered another consisting largely of fruit and vegetables sprinkled with an herbal powder. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Dicey saw their grandmother walking through the vegetable fields carrying two large grocery bags. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Every subject was given its own binder: dogs, cats, horses, farm animals, woodland animals, flowers, fruits and vegetables, rural landscapes, urban landscapes, men’s faces, women’s faces, men’s bodies, women’s bodies, and hands-feet- bottoms-and-other-miscellaneous body parts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They started on one side of Cooter’s ma’s truck patch, went clean through her vegetables, then disappeared in the grass. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Dad was refilling his plate with grilled vegetables as I scooped more saffron rice onto my own. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She brought back a haunch of goat and a basket of fruits and vegetables. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was the size of three football fields and filled with vendors selling all kinds of things, like fruit, vegetables, and peanuts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z An hour would pass, and she’d reappear, carrying a bundle of vegetables or bag of flour, then make her way home to the neighborhood down the hill. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I wander back down the halls to the cafeteria, which has the same fried-food, boiled- vegetable stench as cafeterias everywhere. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I cover them with several packs of frozen vegetables, then place ice trays in front of the vegetables. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z After roasting the bones in the oven for an hour, I simmered them for the rest of the day in a stockpot with the vegetables and some herbs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I showed him the spice merchants and the vegetable stalls and the man with the basket of cobras. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Piles of vegetables and what looked like rice, but smaller. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Peas and carrots, potatoes, real hot vegetable soup, and applesauce.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Everywhere I looked there were fruit-laden trees and rows and rows of vegetables. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We could make ravioli and garlic bread, quesadillas with beans and rice on the side, vegetable soup, a spinach salad with dried cranberries and blue cheese, or chili with corn bread. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I would go down in the morning and milk, get the eggs, feed the chickens, work the garden, pick the vegetables. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I take it the moles are quite fond of homemade vegetable soup. I know my Jess’ll be ready for some.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The pantry contained canned fruits and vegetables, unbroken jars of preserves, bread, oatmeal, cream of wheat, crackers, tuna, and lots of other stuff. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The girls helped weed out Mamá’s vegetable garden and picked fat zucchini, ripened tomatoes, and spicy serrano peppers, which they bundled together in delicate netting to give away as gifts to Mamá’s comadres. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Also in the garden, you know where the vegetables are growing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Rolled eggs, rice balls with meat and vegetables, were ground into the dirty floor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But their well-tended vegetable gardens, small frame houses, and privies were blackened with soot from coal-burning steel plants nearby. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z When the vegetables was all cut up, Quincy told me how to put the stew together with herb-weeds and water. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Old crates filled with fruits and vegetables were piled everywhere, and the place teemed with people, even at this hour. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He had dirt under his fingernails and smelled like rotten vegetables. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Everyone was busy now, for all the garden vegetables must be stored away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He took his sweet time walking the cart back into the store, relishing the brief moment spent outside before returning to the air-conditioned cold and slight smell of rotting meat and spoiled vegetables of Floyd’s. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She found seaweed and small dried anchovies and a basket of fruits and vegetables. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z As soon as we got home from grocery shopping, she began to put the cans and vegetables away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I could freeze vegetables and fruit for the winter. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Baba and Ali had planted a small vegetable garden along the eastern wall: tomatoes, mint, peppers, and a row of corn that never really took. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Vendors in the bazaar, sitting behind pyramids of oiled, shining vegetables, grew to recognize him and would attend to him amidst the clamoring of their other customers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a small fire and cooked chicken breasts and vegetables he’d thawed that day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In addition to the big red chicken there was a sack of carrots which had fallen from a vegetable truck, half a dozen onions which had not. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Salad? Do you see any vegetables? I don’t see any vegetables.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Yes, the woman said that she wanted a boy who could milk a cow, feed chickens, gather vegetables, help serve breakfast and dinner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The one vegetable I cooked that wasn’t grown by Cal- Organic or Earthbound was the asparagus. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was thinking that if only he could get the Bloodbottler to take one bite of the repulsive vegetable, the sheer foulness of its flavour would send him bellowing out of the cave. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They came back with new supplies, including fresh vegetables and fruit and eggs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a pile of overripe fruits and vegetables on the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I read the sides of vegetable oil cans. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him, ‘Just taste the soup, it’s vegetable, and not out of a can. I made it myself. The pie, too.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The orphans called to Circe from the vegetable garden early in the morning as soon as they saw the smoke from the cook stove rising. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The dirt came off, although the ridges were stained with vegetable matter. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z One morning she had found some wild onions growing halfway down the south slope, and later that same day a leafy reddish vegetable that might have been some queer sort of cabbage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wears the same pants for days, stained and dirty from hauling boxes of ripe vegetables. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the early morning peasants sold vegetables I had never seen or eaten before in my life—and my mother assured me I would find them so sweet, so tender, so fresh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaves and then comes back with a huge tray of side plates, prepared vegetables and shellfish and seaweed and four or five kinds of kimchee. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The bazaar is the best place we've gone so far—a narrow street with fruits and vegetables and all sorts of other food stalls on either side. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Dad was talking about weeding the old vegetable patch the other day, but he didn’t get around to it. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nurmi was out in the yard by an old wood stove which she still used for boiling the vegetable dyes for her weaving, or peelings and scraps for the hens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s chicken soup without the chicken or the noodles or the vegetables. Now, your gums are going to be real sensitive, so use this straw.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Robert rather lost his head, and kept forgetting things, napkins at lunch and handing vegetables. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The aged fascist would conduct witch-hunt after witch-hunt until the formerly intact Ignatius J. Reilly was reduced to a fragmented and mumbling vegetable. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She passed a line of customers waiting to get into the vegetable market, their shopping bags draped over their arms. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I was helping her weed her vegetable garden, something we did so often I had begun to think that the weeds were wizards. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Her mother’s flowers still bloomed, and the summer-start vegetables were ripening in the sun. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he woke, he couldn’t smell hay or clover or apples, only coal smoke, and the spongy rotting vegetable stink of garbage. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He counted seven large, number 10, cans of food: two of chili, two of beef stew, two of vegetable soup, and one of fruit cocktail. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s thinking about the vegetables in his garden.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He learned to cook and shop for vegetables. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Plants of various kinds are growing out of his sides and back, and a vegetable of some sort seems to be growing from his mouth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Surrounded by crowds, the long tables were all laid out: jams and preserves, vegetables in novelty shapes, cakes and breads. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom returned with a green salad, topped with raw vegetables and vinaigrette dressing. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Here were the ruins of long-abandoned villages and fortresses, and the fruit and vegetable fields that supplied the city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She handed me a rough clay bowl full of steaming vegetables, seasoned rice, and a crusty chunk of bread, and I thanked her and moved on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z To make soup we use brown beans, navy beans, potatoes, packages of vegetable soup, packages of chicken soup and packages of bean soup. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Paths of white stones meandered among flower beds, hedgerows, vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and flowering plants. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z No one in Macún died, but many lost their belongings, poultry, pigs, milk cows, vegetable gardens, kiosks for selling fried codfish fritters, and shops where rusty old cars received one more chance at the road. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Today a woman was talking about eating green vegetables and doing extracurricular activities to build a resume. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “We have vegetables, but it’s been a hard winter, and we don’t even have any chickens left.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Kind of like you...convict choir boy from the root vegetable family.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all wildly hungry and one suggested they raid the factory’s vegetable garden, where there were cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, eggplant, and radishes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I slowly rolled the spicy yellow mixture of rice and vegetables and meat into little balls with my fingers and licked the sauce off my hands. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Six months later, Great-great-aunt Florentine died—-just like that—in the vegetable garden. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The potter had still not come out of the house with instructions for the day, so Tree-ear turned to the vegetable patch. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The good housewives, their arms filled with bags of vegetables and brown paper parcels of meat, seemed to have little to do that afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z To the south lay the swamps, covered with an eternal vegetable scum, and the whole vast universe of the great swamp, which, according to what the gypsies said, had no limits. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I got two slices of pepperoni pizza and an apple—dairy, meat, fruit, bread, and if you counted tomato sauce, a vegetable. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The vegetable gardens were huge, with a section left untouched to provide seeds for next year. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All the other vegetables and greens were much tastier—really good, in fact. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She worked the dirt in the garden—rich dirt wriggling with worms—bringing a sad patch of vegetables to life. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There were also beans, watermelon, squash, and other vegetables. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z That evening Mrs. Moss prepared her infamous sour broccoli soup, which she made from half-rotten vegetables that she got from a man who delivered crates of supermarket discards. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I think it will always be for the time being, and it will be vegetables and horseshoes all my life!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z An old woman selling vegetables gazed at them as they stood before her stall, and she handed each of them two bruised tomatoes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z There we could grow our own burley tobacco to sell, along with maize and other vegetables to eat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Today, the staple crops of highland agriculture are the recently introduced sweet potato, along with taro, bananas, yams, sugarcane, edible grass stems, and several leafy vegetables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We have a pitiful harvest of wheat and vegetables from our gardens, but the Indians often bring us food from their own harvests to trade. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Gerald spends most of his time in his vegetable garden, his nails permanendy blackened from his careful cultivation of lettuce and herbs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I open the door wider to pick up the vegetables, and Stephen, he stood up and said, “You be needing anything else, Quincy?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I was hungry for green vegetables, and that night as I went off to sleep, I thought of the pokeweeds, the dandelions, the spring beauties that would soon be pressing up from the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate fish, drank hot coffee, and enjoyed canned meats and vegetables from America. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The torn articles—the parchment wrapped around a fistful of rotting vegetables—splattered in his face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The insides of the stores seemed even more exotic and mysterious than the vegetables displayed on the sidewalk, but he couldn’t get her to go in one with him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t suppose you have any unadulterated vegetables?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Just past the frozen vegetables and ice cream, there's a chest packed with ice. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “You. You haven’t had enough vegetables. I see the red choler in you,” White Deer laughed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And they gave her leftovers and excess vegetables that might otherwise have gone bad in their huge pantry. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They came padding in with their eyes lit up like cats finding a bunny in the vegetable garden. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “My mother makes special vegetarian meals. Low-calorie and no cholesterol. We eat a lot of sal-ads and vegetables. My mother’s an excellent cook.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z If there’s one thing I’d figured out about having a family crisis like ours, it’s that the old rules no longer applied — for example, I had probably gone four months without eating a single vegetable. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We could grow vegetables even in the deep of winter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We cooked quietly and afterward I spooned the fried vegetables and rice in bowls. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She turned to the main junk drawer, which held all the utensils, the stirring spoons and vegetable peelers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The man who worked in it lived in a house at one end and he used to dig or cut great quantities of vegetables, put them into a hrududu and drive them away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Two bags of rice, six cans of red beans, two of black beans, four of spinach, two of split pea soup, one of lentil, one of carrots, three of mixed vegetables, and one of sardines. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The apartment was strewn with books, magazines, and piles of clothing and had the smell of fresh oranges: Bobby would buy them and other fruits and vegetables by the bagful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There he ate the meals that Visitación brought him twice a day, although in the last days he lost his appetite and fed only on vegetables. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z That means the government helped pay for your soft drink or cookies, but it won’t help pay for green vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The vegetables were overcooked, the cornmeal was too lumpy, the soup too watery, and the yam slices coarse from being boiled without a dollop of butter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Queenie fried a chicken and cooked up a mess of vegetables for dinner that day, but I don’t think Papa knew what he was eating. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We picked up fruits and vegetables that had been thrown away because they were partly spoiled. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We are quite uppish and sniff at the tinned stuff in the supply dump, we want fresh vegetables. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat by Dad’s bed, dripping teaspoons of water into his mouth with a medical dropper and feeding him pureed vegetables as if he were a toddler. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The lunches at school lately had mostly been canned vegetables and potatoes, but food was food. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The old satyr clapped his hands, and a bunch of nymphs melted out of the trees with platters of vegetables, fruits, tin cans, and other goat delicacies. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I help Windy gather snacks from the little kitchen in the back of the suite: candy, cookies, popcorn, and chips, and not a single vegetable. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They’re full of women and kids preparing vegetables, frying potatoes and chopping cucumbers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Fatima swept up crumbs from the floor while her father stored chopped vegetables in the refrigerator. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Fresh bread and vegetables arrived every few days on the backs of yaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z No easy meat hung this night, but the tables were piled high with vegetables and breads. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A few poles remained of the village that had once been there, and a few pumpkin mounds with vegetables gone wild. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The hot lunch is turkey with reconstituted dried mashed potatoes and gravy, a damp green vegetable, and a cookie. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Jang was also given a coveted job on a nearby farm, where there were opportunities to steal corn, rice, and green vegetables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes I want to be like Kazi, too, safe with my vegetables, spices, and knives in the kitchen, letting the food speak for me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We make it look like more than just fruits and vegetables, breads and cheeses—we make it look special. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On Eighth Avenue, the market carts were parked hub to hub along the curb, improvised canopies shading the withering fruits and vegetables. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Keeping an eye on the clock, we bought a little pot of vegetables and rice. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I get in some kind of trouble at the spa. Maybe they put cucumbers on my eyes. I hate vegetables.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Still, most of the roads in town were unpaved, and in the dry season, the dust kicked up by cattle being herded through town or by farm carts loaded with vegetables swirled through the air. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We eat the chicken and vegetable stew—Mom’s recipe—and everyone talks and laughs like it’s the good old days. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Over their shoulders the vendors had heavy poles, from which they balanced baskets at either end—some with vegetables, others with pastries, or candies, or toys. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside the back step he reached into the vegetable garden and uprooted a small head of lettuce. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I’d end up in the back with the empty vegetable crates. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z These were sold to the fishermen, along with fresh vegetables and roasting ears. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave him rusted film cans in which to put the vegetables he picked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That first day, I stood in my best padded dress at the low wooden table and began to chop vegetables. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In one of his first stores, a half-wide fruit and vegetable shop on 173rd Street off Jerome in the Bronx, he hired a few black men to haul and clean the produce. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Jody continued on through the large vegetable patch where the green corn was higher than his head. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not tolerate anything with a sauce or any foods combined, so Gay would separate the meat and vegetables for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Mama was in the kitchen, not slicing the vegetables laid out on the counter. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Even at the camp, they kept giving us salads and all these vegetables. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I could sell stuff to the fishermen: crawfish, minnows, and fresh vegetables. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She fed me a vanilla milk shake first, then my vegetables and noodles. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I may have lived on Abnegation bread and vegetables for most of my life, with nothing to spare, but I was never that desperate. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There are glowing neon signs, fresh-cut wildflowers, fruits and vegetables stacked in bright, shiny rows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Behind the hut grows a big, luscious vegetable garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Something about vegetables being more efficient,” she said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And cutting up vegetables are two sunken-cheeked humans, a boy and a girl, both of them with small, stupid smiles on their faces and glazed-over looks in their eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In addition to these sledging rations were powdered milk and cocoa, sugar, tea, potatoes, tobacco, canned meats and vegetables, liquor, flour, and a dozen and one other staples and delicacies. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z No fresh fruit or vegetables, no chicken or cheese, and, oddly, no tuna to help out with. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z While Mama tells the class the correct and incorrect ways of cooking vegetables—the microwave makes them soft but also wrinkles their skin—I zone out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z There was a barn where the cows and pigs were kept, and there was a greenhouse filled with blooming flowers and growing vegetables. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “If you’d rather do the beef stew, I can do the roasted vegetables.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z That night she chose to direct it toward her famous steamed pork and preserved vegetable dish, which she always served with special pride. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Boxes filled with fruit and vegetables had torn, and their contents had spilled and broken into slippery messes on the floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She was kneeling in her vegetable garden, her back to Leo. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the middle of the day we were served a cupful of the unfermented grainbrew, orsh; before sunset we were taken back to the barracks and given dinner, porridge with some vegetables, and beer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He hated them, but they were my favorite vegetable. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I popped down out of sight and I heard William saying, "Your roast lamb, madam. And which vegetable would you like? Peas or carrots?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z And on Saturdays, when Mama sold the sweetgrass baskets she made along with our extra vegetables at the stall, me and Jay spent all day with Gran. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It could supply them with a ready-to-eat vegetable, a storable grain, a source of fiber, an animal feed, and heating fuel. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Early on, back before I can remember, Momma had tried growing tomatoes and other vegetables; when it became obvious that her small bundle of tobacco was worth more than all the food combined, she switched. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z All you did was boil water and vegetables together to make the thin soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z She glances at me and says too brightly, “Do you need more vegetables, honey?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a tradition in Tangerine. Kids from families that are in the citrus business, or the vegetable business, can stay out of school whenever there’s a freeze. Their families need them to help.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Among them are the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch; mono-, tri-, and diglycerides; dextrose; lecithin; yellow corn flour; regular cornstarch; vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I throw a little salt in the saucepan with the vegetables. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know wolves could digest vegetables,” said Matt, who had studied biology. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t be bleaching any more palm oil. We should splurge on vegetable oil for these last few weeks,” Obiora said, still swatting at the flies. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I hula-hooped on the South Lawn to show that exercise could be fun and made a guest appearance on Sesame Street, talking about vegetables with Elmo and Big Bird. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We file past the cafeteria workers to collect our plates of rice and some unrecognizable vegetable stew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z And there weren’t even any vegetables on it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The freezer case was stuffed with bags of pita bread and vegetables she didn’t recognize. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It also has broccoli, the vegetable I like best, and herbed carrots on the side. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Sally often came back from the market without meat or vegetable, and we all fell to eating Dr. Trefusis’s diet: biscuits and whatever broth could be won from the bone. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z No one could eat any vegetables, because they would get stomach cramps. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I described Mom’s vegetable garden and the Jesus statue in front of church. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They work very hard, some days planting rice and vegetables and cutting lumber, and other days building dams and digging trenches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had nodded and said, “Oh,” ’cause what else can you say about vegetables in a garden? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In the spring and summer, the green ears of corn sit out in plain view with all the other fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was hard enough hearing all the talk about vegetables when he’d eaten lunch. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione left the castle together, crossed the vegetable patch, and made for the greenhouses, where the magical plants were kept. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The meat is rotten and the vegetables moldy, but they haven't fed us since we got thrown in here. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z So are most of the fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I got a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, and look at this, four juice boxes—remember those?—and a nice bag of rice.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Grandma always had salads or green vegetables at every dinner, no matter what she was serving. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Ear, Eye and Arm passed health spas, vegetable markets, a junior college, beauty salons and libraries, although only Ear appreciated the view. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z This is the kind of thing people eat now, people who eat in places like this: Toronto is no longer the land of chicken pot pie, beef stew, overboiled vegetables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Animal and vegetable they take, mineral they leave behind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She boiled it into a stew instead, tossing in various vegetables and herbs she found around the house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z This doesn’t look like a face but like an unknown vegetable, a mangled bulb or tuber, something that’s grown wrong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They overturned the great waist-high earthenware jugs; duck eggs, pickled fruits, vegetables burst out and mixed in acrid torrents. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the countryside on the outskirts of town, Shin wandered away from his crew, whose members were digging up a vegetable garden. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I am going to the market first. Yesterday I heard a man say that overripe fruit and vegetables are given away in the market here. Perhaps I can get something for us.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z That was okay too, because now I got all the chicken and the vegetables in the soup with warm corn tortillas and my mother’s sopa de arroz. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “I think I’d like to live like a vegetable and make no important decisions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But one day my father called from one of his vegetable stores in the Bronx and said he was going to JFK and would be late coming home. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For lunch, Central Hospital served up its finest turkey club sandwich with vegetable soup. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the center, a grocery store sold vegetables and takeaway meals wrapped in banana leaves. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Two goats munched at the edges of a small vegetable patch. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I walked a broad circle around Mami, who looked up from her vegetable chopping whenever I went by. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z By that point, I’m not sure there really even was a middle class anymore—just all of us hoeing for root vegetables next to our cracked aboveground pools. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the meantime, Father left to buy some vegetables from a nearby greengrocer for our dinner. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There were more vegetables, including potatoes, in a larger vegetable garden farther behind the house, next to a field of rye. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She cooked meals where she made three separate eternally boiled vegetable portions for everybody and would giggle in the corner at Christmas with a small glass of sherry and a paper crown on her head. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Other boats, selling vegetables, sandals, fried rice, and fizzy drinks, glided past. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z So off she went, leaving me filling the root cellar with bushel baskets of vegetables, pruning the fruit trees, spreading the compost—getting ready for winter. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z They built a fire in the stove and made tea and feasted on vegetables, fried potatoes, and canned meats, eating so much, they feared they would get sick. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Some days we rode our bikes to nowhere in particular, and once in a while we sold vegetables and bread-and-butter pickles out of a wagon at the end of our driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z They worked twelve-hour days six days a week for $200 cash and meals and all the fruit and vegetables we couldn’t or wouldn’t sell; it was the typical arrangement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The study showed that the organic fruits and vegetables contained higher levels of vitamin C. They also had a wider range of natural chemicals called polyphenols. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She slides a pack of chicken in, next to the frozen vegetables that are already in there. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Tell you what even that tiny jingle the vegetable peeler makes is too loud for when Mr. Keillor is on. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z There was some concern because things were being planted late in the season, but most of the vegetables had gotten a head start in a greenhouse: string beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cabbage, potatoes, broccoli. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘We don’t have to eat snozzcumbers. In the fields around our village there are all sorts of lovely vegetables like cauliflowers and carrots. Why don’t you get some of those next time you go visiting?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I ordered fried chicken and chocolate pudding and pecan pie, and no one said a word about me not selecting a single vegetable. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the boys in my group had a little money from selling their rations or the vegetables they grew to others in camp or to the native Kenyans. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z If it’s a fruit, then why is it always in regular salads with other vegetables, but never in fruit salad? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Afterward, the shopkeeper’s wife serves us homegrown vegetables, fried chicken and bread, and hot sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Ajima was in the vegetable patch, crouched over with her back to him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z What if we grew vegetables at the White House and helped advocate for fresh food? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I picture Mr. Park in the kitchen, chopping up huge amounts of vegetables. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The Ameses lived on the edge of town, and behind their house were barn and carriage house, vegetable garden and fenced paddock for two horses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Flushed and sweating, they were also resigned to the fact that there was no escaping an odor of meat and vegetables, which was wafting through the windows from the market stalls outside. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Fish, nuts, and vegetables are good and necessary, but they don’t provide enough fuel for the hard physical work we do. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Most depended on raised-field agriculture, in which farmers grow crops on flat, artificially constructed surfaces created for the same reason that home gardeners grow vegetables on raised beds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Red raspberries appeared in the wilderness beyond where Fritz had plowed for Daddy’s vegetable garden. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z It only takes five days in hot weather for a Kentucky Wonder bean to gather up its vegetable willpower and germinate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That I didn’t know if we hadn’t come along the Pigman would’ve just lived like a vegetable until he died alone in that dump of a house? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I was sweeping the kitchen floor when Jay came in lugging two peach baskets full of ripe vegetables and plunked them on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There I fed him some dried mushrooms and offered him my own dinner of vegetables, but he was not much interested. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In the small vegetable patch behind Hagrid’s house were a dozen of the largest pumpkins Harry had ever seen. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Remember, I had that vegetable garden in our backyard one year. So I can work in the fields.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Fruit then. Or vegetables. Make sure they’re washed. I don’t want any of your chemical poisons in my blood.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They glimpsed the centaur and his lady; she held a parasol and he a string market bag, and they were just another couple out for a stroll, buying vegetables for their supper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Alex wished rich people ate more canned vegetables and fewer Hershey’s Kisses, but he had to admit it was exciting to see candy and cookies. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z As the delicious smell of meat cooking drifted through the air, everybody worked together, and soon we had a small house with mud walls and a thatched roof and a garden for vegetables nearby. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those are vegetables. Come on. Let’s leave. These statues are . . . looking at me.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She shook the quilts once underneath the letter boxes where she lived, then once again at the mouth of the alley, causing the crows who were feeding on vegetable peels to scatter in several directions. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z By then Eliot understood that when Mrs. Sen said home, she meant India, not the apartment where she sat chopping vegetables. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z At the curb are overstuffed cardboard vegetable crates waiting for a trash pickup that may be days away. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I picked at the vegetables and ate a little of the beef thing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z He shows me how to make a gallimaufry, a stew of diced meat, onion, and vegetables, with mustard, ginger, and vinegar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They tore across the vegetable gardens to the greenhouses, paused for a moment behind them, then set off again, fast as they could, skirting around the Whomping Willow, tearing toward the shelter of the forest.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z All sorts of crops grew here: corn, but also fruits and other vegetables, as well as oats, hay, and alfalfa to feed the pigs, cattle, chickens, and horses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They were all bending over the vegetable patch, their clothes drenched with perspiration from the heat of the sun burning down on their backs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z On Saturday, a market in Cordoba hands over all the vegetables it hasn’t sold that week. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The food was a thick soup of vegetables, beans and barley, and it filled Tristran and contented him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside, Mohammad checks names off his list, and I help him to load trays with bowls of vegetable stew and bring them to the table. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The same dollar could only buy 250 calories of carrots and other whole vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She seems to want to stay and watch me taste it but she hurries back to her work in the open kitchen preparing the bahn-chahn, the savory half dishes of vegetables and fish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The old people fed me hot vegetable soup. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had worked as a gardener in Buna and from time to time had brought us some green vegetables. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There were vegetables, including choy, which is a little like the demon broccoli only with yellow flowers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily the vegetables had all grown tall enough that we could easily tell what was weeds and what wasn’t. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I needed a little sister like Frightful needed vegetables. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hopelessly, round and round, a rotating sprinkler scattered lake water on Dr. Mason’s vegetable garden. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Chandra was busy in the courtyard carrying water from the well to the small vegetable garden, where squashes and melons were creeping about, looking for room to grow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Everything had gone bad—vegetables, fruit, meat, everything. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Every day she prays to the earth goddess for plentiful vegetables, the river god for plentiful fish, the wind god to bring rain, and the sun god to bring life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had opened a can of mixed vegetables for her, and then spoon-fed her, so she wouldn’t have to take out her arms. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z There are so many side dishes, you can hardly count them—potatoes of all kinds, and cabbage and every other vegetable, and delicious breads. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Halfway there we stopped and ate a meal: boiled rice, dhal, vegetables and curds. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The blind man smiled, loosened a beet from the earth, and placed it in the basket of vegetables. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “Seeing as you’re new to the game, and a friend of Kevin, I’ll give you a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, plus two cans of tuna and a six-pack of water.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Nothing to be had from my efforts, for the vines and vegetables had withered in the long weeks of drought. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosie stands in a trampled vegetable patch, running her trunk lazily across the rows. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An artichoke is a very tasty vegetable that is popular everywhere. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Should we split up the list? I can make the beef stew and the cheesecake. Do you want to do the roasted vegetables and carrot cake?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Nothing. Here you are. Tell Faye to get some sleep and eat some vegetables. I’ve been up all night. Let yourself out, will you?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I am not surprised to find that liver is rich in vitamin C. So are citrus fruits and green vegetables, the foods I lacked. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Or consider the fate of the Mexicans who immigrated to California between 1900 and the end of the 1920s to work in the fields of the big fruit and vegetable growers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Then she wandered over to the fruit and vegetable counter and discovered potatoes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered a dozen cans of assorted meats, vegetables and soup and a bag of flour. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z My job is to search for wild vegetables and mushrooms in nearby woods while Chou guards our tents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After I ate that little pointed piece of pie and made my wish, I went out front to watch Gus do some weeding in the vegetable garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z They grew vegetables, had cattle, made whiskey, and sold a little tobacco. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He screamed for joy, running down the hill past the vegetable gardens. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They helped Severo carry his daughter’s body into the kitchen and set it gently down on the slab of marble where Nana kneaded pastry and chopped vegetables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A gardener had trimmed the ancient roses, planted geraniums, laid out the vegetable flat, and brought the living spring in little channels to wander back and forth through the garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There were four plates of roast pork and vegetables. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When Jay and I got outside, Doc was stacking heavy boxes of empty jam jars as well as the crates he and Mama would fill with fresh-picked vegetables and fruit in the morning. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z About 90 percent of their diet was seafood—fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and seaweed—the Chinchorro ate almost no fruit, vegetables, or land animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I was taking a few vegetables to market when I saw her beckoning me to come indoors. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Gardens had sprung up everywhere, in the firebreaks, between the rows of barracks—rock gardens, vegetable gardens, cactus and flower gardens. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Running down the hill on the other side was the vegetable garden, the rhubarb plot, the dahlia beds. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Such as, “This cawwot is a topeedo—watch!” as he made the vegetable plow a path through the gravy on his plate before targeting his mouth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I thought of the kitchen and the exploded jars of fruits and vegetables I’d found there. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There were all kinds of green vegetables in the chow yuk—string beans and pea pods, and also pieces of diced chicken. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A freshly picked non-organic vegetable is bound to taste better than one that’s been riding in a truck for three days. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Today we make five pounds of shrimp, some clams on the half shell, four vegetable trays with broccoli, cauliflower, celery and carrots, and three trays of mushroom vol-au-vents. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Joe was outside, down on his hands and knees, tending his vegetable garden that afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z How does Kazi take all these plain boring foods—bitter vegetables, dried lentils, flour, oil, spices—and turn them into something so warm and delicious every time? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Only another sister, Rosa Amalia, holds hunger at bay: each Saturday, she brings Enrique’s grandmother milk, cheese, butter, rice, sugar, beans, and vegetables. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The two of us spend about four hours in the cold digging for those tough old vegetables, planted last summer, until we have a gnarled and ugly pile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She poured herself a slug of the vegetable compound and sighed with relief. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She served me this huge slice of vegetable pizza. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “On all other nights we eat vegetables and ’erbs of all kinds. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That one meal never varied: hot water with a little salt or pepper, and if we were lucky, bits of potato skin and slivers of other vegetables. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We have our bungalow, and a coop for the chickens, the flower and vegetable gardens, and the cottages where Kazi and the groundskeeper, Mahit, live. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There were flowers and vegetables and trees and vines. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They don’t ship their vegetables and meat across the country or across the globe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Once a week I would cut and pack our garden produce, selecting the best and leaving the spoilt or bruised vegetables for ourselves, cover the basket with leaves and set off for the village. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The bowl was filled with vegetable rice, and the tray held meat pastries. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I look on at how carefully Hideo fries meat, chops vegetables, and sets rice in the steamer. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And,” she added firmly, “I’m countin’ on Will to pick the vegetables.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z To Gorlitz it looks like “four potatoes with a suspicion of gravy and a mouthful of vegetables.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His ice cellar was stocked with meats and vegetables. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Her feet must have leather soles, Dicey thought as they crossed through the vegetable gardens on a dirt path. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I open the orangutan’s door and set a pan of fruits, vegetables, and nuts on the floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She hung him from a pole in her vegetable garden. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z James looked in the nylon bag that held his grandmother’s vegetables. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He especially liked the chow yuk, because vegetables were his favorite. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I embroidered vegetable stalls with purple eggplants and green melons. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z His preoccupation lasted all the way across the sodden vegetable patch until they arrived in greenhouse three, but here he was distracted by Professor Sprout showing the class the ugliest plants Harry had ever seen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The new law added more fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy to roughly forty-three million meals served daily. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I took the vegetables to Mr. Slocum, and when I got back home, parked the car under the barn shed and sneaked up to the loft. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I guess they can buy their own vegetables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course man was an animal—he was not a vegetable or a mineral, was he? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, right now you can buy fruit and all kinds of vegetables for two bits a lug. And in the winter you know what we pay for canned peaches and canned string beans.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I feel like I have vegetables instead of ears, like large broccoli sticking out of my head,” he said, laughing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In this school Alba learned to eat boiled vegetables and burnt rice, to withstand the freezing courtyard, sing hymns, and give up worldly vanities except those in the realm of sports. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our new lunch boxes were the kind we had always dreamed of: bright aluminum with two removable trays, one for rice and one for a meat or vegetable dish. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Egyptian farmers raised a wide variety of fruits and vegetables—harvesting rich vineyards, tending extensive orchards, and producing record amounts of grain for domestic use and for export. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She sounds like a six-year-old reciting lines from a school play about the food groups: You mean you’re supposed to eat jive servings of fruit and vegetables a day? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Faye’s room she poured the three tablespoons of vegetable compound in the glass and stirred it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Familiar women were back to their stalls selling fruits and vegetables; I even recognized the families of goats crossing our path. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I used to try telling my mom it was a vegetable, but she kept saying tomatoes are a fruit, so it would be more like a jelly.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z After locking the door securely by wedging a stone in the brace, I carry the vegetable to my outdoor kitchen and start off for the tree house and Alice. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Just placed it on the counter and limped back to her little chair by the door where she always sat in her apron, sorting and stacking vegetables. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A broad, slow-moving river wound through rich grassland in the middle distance, and at the foot of the long slope, among copses of small trees and rows of vegetables, stood a village of thatched houses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pedro Tercero was put in the trunk of the car, curled up like a package, and covered with market baskets full of fruit and vegetables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dig up the vegetable garden, everything that was coming up, flatten it, and cover it with dead leaves. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They changed markets and to this day believe they were the victims of a curious vegetable blight. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z In his village, people farmed the tiniest plots outside their homes and planted useful vegetables and herbs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The sunlight had been faint for over a week, and Julie worried about her vegetables. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Surrounded by a small garden where vegetables were already growing, the dwelling was much larger than the slave shack she had shared with Polly back at Derbyshire Farms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the fields and eats food left for the gods. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d said it was where he kept money after he sold his vegetables in town. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I brought a heavy frying pan up from the house and because we had no cooking oil we steamed vegetables in water over the fire. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Residues on fruits and vegetables tend to be somewhat less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I wanted to see something beyond high school and the King's Court and a grocery-store aisle lined with canned vegetables. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Then Lizabeth said, “Quincy, you can take the vegetables you like from the garden, or you can make a list and Stephen can make a basket for you on the days that he comes here.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then they sat down to a lunch of rice and tsukemono—pickled vegetables. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Those other beasts and vegetables are probably radically different from any organism we know here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are a few cans of Spam in the pantry, along with some mixed vegetables, and a couple of rotting onions in the refrigerator. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I wished my father were there with us, but he had gone out to stand in line for our vegetable rations. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Ivanito helps her blend the coconut with egg yolks, vanilla, condensed milk, sugar, cornstarch, and salt, and holds the empty tin vegetable- oil containers while she fills them with the mixture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was of him in the kitchen with a towel thrown over his shoulder, chopping vegetables. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The air all over the Bottom got heavy with peeled fruit and boiling vegetables. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Tonight, Chou and I cook mushrooms and wild vegetables that we found in the field and we make rice soup for dinner. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring and summer, vegetable gardens, cornfields, and fruit orchards were robbed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z And I did eat every spoonful: No one else on Cuttyhunk made better soup than Miss Maggie did, with vegetables that came from the finest garden on the islands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She opened the refrigerator and I saw familiar containers of chicken salad, vermicelli, vegetables, stuffed squash, all things I had brought for Morrie. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinners were always noisy, and they were always abundant with great pots of boiled rice, platters of home-grown vegetables, fish Papa caught. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He'd taken such delight in his tomatoes and peppers, planting a raised vegetable bed after they moved into the house. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I shall need to buy bean seeds and chilli seeds, and perhaps a few young pumpkin vines...sweet potatoes of course...I have made a lot from my vegetables before.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Our house didn’t smell like cooked meat or vegetables when I opened the front door. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Jaimito wanders through plants taller than he is, tugging with all his might at the vegetables and dropping them, with clumsy toddler hands, into the sack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Give her plenty of sunshine, fresh fruits, and lots of vegetables.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Knowing Kathy kept the freezer stocked with meat and vegetables, he leaned down and removed two steaks, quickly closing the door to keep the finite cold from escaping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Dead fish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Half a dozen crows were pecking around her potatoes and winter vegetables. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Support” came in the payment by members of a fee, “stockvel money,” to the host; and in return, they would be given free liquor and “stockvel plates”—dishes of chicken, rice and vegetables. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The two men were squat ting on their heels, eating their evening meal, shoveling rice into their mouths with chopsticks, dipping into the large bowl of vegetables and meat that sat between them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then there were signs that a vegetable row had been attempted, but only a few withered collards had survived. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I swear, I’ll never eat enough vegetables to meet this woman’s quota. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He walked up through the vegetable patch, kicking his bare toes into the dust. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z So, after working at the plant and attending English class, Lefty was the one to pick up the lamb and vegetables, the spices and honey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Outside a night train, running on the street-car tracks, went by carrying vegetables to the markets. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Janssen's vegetable plot is just a small square of frozen dirt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Apparently, London had an enormous appetite for goods of every kind, from livestock and vegetables to timber and stone. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z How would he endure the coming winter, alone in the dank vegetable pit? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They eat only rice and dal and vegetables, plainly prepared. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But the ground is still partially frozen, and the vegetables are hard to extract. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I felt myself falling apart—that by morning I might be just bones melting into the moldy soil of the sisters’ vegetable garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the jumping light into the garden, where dry stalks pointed to the skies like scrawny fingers, and rotted, wormy vegetables sank into the cracks of the parched soil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I think I’ll stick to vegetables and fish. But it’s not about camping out, Tally. It’s about becoming what I want to become. Not what some surgical committee thinks I should.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There she is, chopping vegetables, unaware of her posture, unaware of the wildness of her hair, even unaware that I am staring at her with so much love. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Don’t plant any vegetables above where you bury those rodents. They got enough poison in ’em to bring down an elephant.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He’d tended quietly to his apples and rhododendrons, his chinaberries and mulberry hedges, his rows of vegetables and flowers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He knew my father had run vegetable stores in the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The lecture starts with some priest named Greg who studied vegetables, and ends up with an argument about blue eyes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “It must be nice to live like a vegetable,” he conceded wistfully. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They pretty much share the organic vegetable market with Earthbound. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Ugwu wanted to gag her, to stuff sliced vegetables into her mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We spent the morning in assigned chores: gathering water from the rain barrels to boil, coaxing the small vegetables in the garden to stay alive, washing clothes, checking the trap lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The vegetables—onions and celery and something that resembled a purple carrot—were spicy and made my eyes water. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The entertainment for the night is a British indie rocker who looks like a root vegetable and is popular with people in Alex’s demographic for reasons he can’t even begin to understand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One day, after completing his shift chopping vegetables, Wes took a detour on the way home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The good and bad bubbled around like vegetables in a huge stew pot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Quickly and with his eyes watering with satisfaction, he ate one after the other the cheese, the vegetables, and the sauce; the fresh food, by contrast, didn't taste good to him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z This explained why the sign said “Carrott’s” at the top, you see, but then listed other vegetables and fruits spelled and punctuated perfectly correctly. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z My first project was a series of wooden vegetable crates I meticulously filled with my garbage. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Now, however, we’re going through the most delightful period so far, because there are no vegetables at all. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Why you annoy with old woman? Hai, I remember butter now. I fry vegetable in butter for one week. That very good week. Not best week ever, but very good.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z How very strange it was to watch people who would have crossed the street if they'd seen him coming a few weeks before, now giving him vegetables, more than he could eat. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a dish from his other side—a deep tureen with some kind of stew in it—and he said, “I think this is just vegetables.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The kids asked me questions, some about vegetables and the tasks at hand, but also things like “Where’s the president?” and “How come he’s not helping?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “If I could carve gems and do all those other things,” Taran remarked sympathetically to Doli, “I wouldn’t mind not being invisible. All I know is vegetables and horseshoes, and not too much about either.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Seeing his mother come into the bar and start to talk to his father about vegetables, Malcolm took the glasses from the Terrace Room and hurried back to the kitchen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She said, “It makes good times even better ms when you know they’re going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They made their way directly to the kitchen, where, despite Fry- pan’s grumbling, they were able to get cheese sandwiches and raw vegetables. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z No morning passed that he didn’t freeze a ton of meats, vegetables, and lemon cream pies, enough to last ten years, until the rockets came back from Earth, if they ever came. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished I could give her the vegetables. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps there are many other planets that today have abundant microbes but no big beasts and vegetables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess I don’t want to live like a vegetable, then,” said Major Danby with a smile of sad resignation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Flowers, weeds, junk, pet houses, tree houses, vegetable gardens, rubber tires, grass ranging from desert-sparse to shaggy to trim as a marine’s haircut — the backyards were as different, as individual as faces. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His farmland produced abundant maize and vegetables that fed the entire region. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The steak’s not bad, he jokes, the vegetables not too rubbery, it’s a Saturday night, eat up, y’all, we got church in the morning. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got into the car, Kevin told Mama that the soldiers had been ordered to demolish the vegetable stalls because they were illegal structures. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It meant “One should eat vegetables, not humans, because vegetables taste more delicious.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There were thousands of people there, arguing, selling, and buying; vegetables for sale amongst daggers, and carpets displayed alongside tobacco. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the vegetables and say, “Thank you, Stephen. Biddy might still be scaredy of you for a while, but I promise I’ll be friendly to you. You didn’t do nothing wrong.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was so near the house that the deer did not jump the fence and eat the vegetables in the daytime, and at night Jack kept them away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He dug a vegetable bed for Celia in the walled garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Your three-year-old eats all her vegetables for a week? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We knew a family who had a sign in their vegetable patch: “Since this is not a Communist garden but cabbages grown by private enterprise, please do not steal from my garden.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A guy who loved growing vegetables and being outdoors. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Doubletree Mutt came sideways and embarrassed up through the vegetable patch, and Jody, remembering how he had thrown the clod, put his arm about the dog’s neck and kissed him on his wide black nose. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I found Kazi’s favorite big clay bowl he always used for chopped vegetables or mixing dough. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was when he reached the bottom step that it occurred to him how very pleasant it would be to pass the vegetable patch on his walk to Hagrid’s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They were building a cook fire, and a legless man, who propelled himself on a little cart, was ferrying vegetables to a large stew pot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She brings over a pot of white rice with vegetable bits sprinkled over it and a plate of chicken patties. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Fragments of the filthy vegetable splashed all over the cave. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a bone at the butcher's or rotted vegetables at the grocer's, something no one but my family was desperate enough to eat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In the garden they’ve planted a peach tree, a pear tree, an asparagus bed, rows and rows of vegetables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We have forgotten that meats used to be as seasonal as fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She could see they were filled with vegetables. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I sat on a stool and watched Kazi chop vegetables and grind spices. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But when he asked for another portion of venison, Medwyn gave a long chuckle and explained to the amazed Fflewddur it was not meat at all but vegetables prepared according to his own recipe. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Next she covers my face in a minty-scented cream that hardens into a mask, and I sit there picturing how crazy I look with my eyes covered in vegetables and my face like a ghost’s. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When I came to the bottom of the hill, I called out that I was home and my grandmother yoo-hooed from the vegetable garden. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “When the drought ends and the rains return,” Nali said, “I want to have vegetables again.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I checked to make sure we had everything—the vegetable oil, the brown sugar. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The two found a fair number of shoes, watches, and coats, which they traded in for soup, mixed vegetables, black beans, and rice for Alex and vodka for Kevin. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Trucks were venturing back into the neighborhood, delivering a much-needed supply of fresh vegetables, milk, and ice. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This was a storeroom for vegetables and sacks of rice and other such things: dry enough, but bitterly cold. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Don’t eat the vegetables. The village’s chief will beat you if you get caught.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They grew a modest crop of vegetables to sell in town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Tonight, while she thawed chicken, she considered the question of vegetables. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got potatoes and root vegetables in the oven,” he said in a low voice, “for those principled ones among us who don’t particularly feel like eating dead meat.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Of course, they were only the tattered-sailed native schooners from Venezuela, Aruba, or Bonaire coming in with bananas, oranges, papayas, melons, and vegetables. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He snorted in his sleep, muttered something about vegetables, and turned his head. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was mixed with the vegetables and the noodles like letters. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There was watermelon, which we kept cool in a bucket of ice, and a salad made with vegetables from the organic farm that some of Mom and Dad’s friends had started. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From sunrise to sunset, we plant crops and vegetables in the garden, stopping for only dinner and lunch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was slightly better food—at midday, a bowl of real soup, perhaps a slice of vegetable, and at the end of the night shift, bread with oleo. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z To fight death, the new people work hard planting rice and vegetables. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When his parents had said to eat his vegetables, he’d asked for extra broccoli. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. But the one percent could leave you a vegetable, Tally.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z After breakfast we’d go to the butcher and then the fruit and vegetable shop next door. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He was given a switch to drive the animals from vegetable gardens, should they be tempted. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Does that mean you want to do the beef stew, or do you want to make the roasted vegetables?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The other day there was a bottle of ketchup in our food box, and on the itemized list it was marked as a vegetable. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “And no, I don’t have your vegetables, or your washed fruit. But it’s not my fault, Artemis in-sis-ted I come right down....” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He opened the side-by-side refrigerator and was accosted by the smell of rotting fruits and vegetables. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z |
| 随便看 |
|
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。