green-gage

It is a diaecious palm, the female plants bearing an immense quantity of round fruit, about the size of a green-gage plum, of a purple colour, and rather disagreeable flavour; the pulp covering the seed was very oily, and not a leaf to be seen on any of the fruit-bearing plants; the whole top consists of branches full of ripe and unripe seeds.

Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York 2003

Mrs Milburn created a diversion with green-gage preserves.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

All this transpiring while they were supposed to be eating green-gage preserves, and Mrs Milburn and Miss Filkin endeavoured to engage the head of the house in the kind of easy allusion to affairs of the moment to which Mr Hesketh would be accustomed as a form of conversation -- the accident to the German Empress, the marriage of one of the Rothschilds.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

Then they embarked upon some salty crackers, enlivened with Camembert cheese and green-gage jam.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

Just where the horse trams trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls, with fruit blazing in the sun -- apples and piles of reddish oranges, small green-gage plums and bananas.

Sons and Lovers 1907

The fruit has to ripen on its way, and to enjoy a green-gage, or melon, to the full, we must taste it here.

Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

The dealer will find that out when you ask him for an easy-running broad-ax or a green-gage plumb line.

Remarks Bill Nye 1873

You shall receive it, Miss O'Carroll, with all the gloss of novelty; fresh as a ripe green-gage in all the downiness of its bloom.

Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825

Plum, and green-gage jelly may be made in the same manner, with the kernels, which greatly improve the flavour.

Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie Eliza Leslie 1822

Here and there are scattered patches of plums of the green-gage kind, berries, and a peculiar kind of shrub oaks, never more than five feet high, yet bearing a very large and sweet acorn; ranges of hazel nuts will often extend thirty or forty miles, and are the abode of millions of birds of the richest and deepest dyes.

Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820