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  • Miss Larrabee reported the affair for our paper, giving the small list of guests and the long line of refreshments -- which included alligator-pear salad, right out of the Smart Set Cook Book.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • But soon their hosts began to wear long faces; the strangers had enormous appetites, and the plantains and the bread-fruit vanished before their rapacity; the alligator-pear trees, whose fruit sent to

    The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands 1919

  • On the fertile, volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes, and vegetables.

    Chapter 11 1913

  • She ate nothing but alligator-pear salad and hothouse grapes, drank a little champagne, and took cognac in her coffee.

    The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915

  • She ate nothing but alligator-pear salad and hothouse grapes, drank a little champagne, and took cognac in her coffee.

    The song of the lark 1915

  • On the fertile, volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes, and vegetables.

    Chapter 11 1911

  • She ate nothing but alligator-pear salad and hothouse grapes, drank a little champagne, and took cognac in her coffee.

    The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • On the fertile volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and the jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes and vegetables.

    "The Nature Man" 1908

  • Miss Larrabee reported the affair for our paper, giving the small list of guests and the long line of refreshments -- which included alligator-pear salad, right out of the Smart Set Cook Book.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

  • The alligator-pear -- cuts and tastes like beautiful green cheese ...

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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