cucumber-frame

• “At all events the animal, which had never been known before to do more than proceed at a leisurely walk, rushed at frantic speed into the garden, and tossed my wife's mother into a cucumber-frame.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893

• “They should be put round the side of a rather large pot in sandy peat; the warmth, shade, and moisture of a cucumber-frame will cause them to root quickly, when they should be potted off singly, so as to make sturdy plants before the winter sets in, and such young stock ought to be wintered in”

  Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.

• “The day being very fine, she was glad to come out of the chariot, which smelt (I had my head in it all this time) like a stable put under a cucumber-frame.”

  David Copperfield

• “Slip behind that cucumber-frame and hide, and let us see who it is.”

  The Princess of the School

• “Her back was towards the cucumber-frame and the bushes, and her eyes were fixed on her mirror.”

  The Princess of the School

• “The girls made a swift, but silent, dash for the shadow of the cucumber-frame, and concealed themselves only just in time.”

  The Princess of the School

• “The Mafia, rising from the shadow of the cucumber-frame, laughed long, though with caution.”

  The Princess of the School

• “She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.”

  Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

• “They were all acutely interested in as much of the wreck as they could see, for the station smelt to Heaven of oil, and the engine skittered over broken glass like a terrier in a cucumber-frame.”

  The Day's Work - Volume 1

• “So, when the fair Dora had paralysed her audience with one final bang and rattle, as if the gentleman going over the garden wall had tumbled into the cucumber-frame, Felix was loud in his expressions of delight.”

  The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

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