pease

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  • So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662
  • Among the many desirable things our parents brought us the most delightful was cow pease, rice, and a piece of bacon, cooked together; the mixture was called by the slaves “hopping John.” —  My Life In The South
  • Turner, Betty, and Talbot Pepys, and they dined with myself Sir D. Gawden and Gibson, and mighty merry, this house being famous for good meat, and particularly pease - porridge and after dinner broke up, and they away; and I to the Council - Chamber, and there heard the great complaint of the City, tried against the gentlemen of the Temple, for the late riot, as they would have it, when my Lord Mayor was there. —  Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1668
  • However read it, as your pease are shelling; —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • That makes me throw pease-shellings in your dish. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
 

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