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«A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.»
«So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto the lists of Top 10 hated foods»
Author: Julia Reed | About: Food | Keywords: Lists of, okra, radish, radishes
«What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.»
Author: Samuel Beckett (Writer) | About: Destiny | Keywords: radish, radishes
«EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his _glutoeus maximus_.»
«Spare feast! a radish and an egg.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: radish, radishes