melon

• This time the melon was a whole one, and Vincent divided it with a couple of other prisoners, for the fruit was too large for one person to consume, being quite as large as a man's head The next day another melon was bought, but this time Vincent did not open it in public. —  With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War
• The Thebans offered apples instead of sheep as a sacrifice to Hercules, a custom derived from the following circumstance At one time, when a sacrifice was necessary, the river Asopus had so inundated the country that it was impossible to take a sheep across it for the purpose, when some youths, recollecting that the Greek word melon signified both sheep and an apple, stuck wooden pegs into the fruit to represent legs, and brought this vegetable quadruped as a substitute for the usual offering. —  Science in the Kitchen.
• This time the melon was a whole one, and —  With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War
• This time the melon was a whole one, and Vincent divided it with —  With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War
• The remains of the whale of a melon were there to convince him. —  The Wrong Twin

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