leek

• The wife of the owner, Mme Urbain, was pale and sad like a leek, always occupied with her intestinal disorders and her heaps of medicines, and sharing the information with whomever she could find, none of whom found it the slightest bit interesting. —  Georges Simenon - Maigret - The Group at the Grand Café
• Upon the ■leek, the remaining pool of dark energies around the stone crackled Ryith streaks of silver, matching the thin veins forking through the ■rock. —  Witch War
• Patrick: Good soups, potato and leek or butternut squash.
• Make sure the vegetables are peeled and cut into equal sized pieces and, as far as the leek goes, just use the white part and, after dicing that up, put it in a strainer and run it under cold running water to remove any sand or grit. —  News10Now - TOP STORIES
• A $6 soup and half-sandwich option pairs one of these with a mushroom soup with goat cheese toast or a leek and fennel soup with Serrano. —  New York Press

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