pine-apples

And it continues to do this through the years and centuries, and the thousands and thousands of centuries, until, at last, there remains not one grain of sand at Waikiki and Pearl Harbour is filled up with land and growing coconuts and pine-apples.

WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

We must cross Broadway again; gaining some refreshment from the heat, in the sight of the great blocks of clean ice which are being carried into shops and bar-rooms; and the pine-apples and water - melons profusely displayed for sale.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Heaven knows what, has two pine-apples in her lap, and a bundle of them under the seat.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Every French citizen or citizeness is carrying pine-apples home.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Have you also tried to have some of our kharkovians friends taste kiwis, pine-apples, and any other juicy, fabu-looking exotic fruits.

Lettuce « My Life in Kharkov 2007

Tobacco-smoky Frenchman in Algerine wrapper, with peaked hood behind, who might be Abd-el-Kader dyed rifle-green, and who seems to be dressed entirely in dirt and braid, carries pine-apples in a covered basket.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

And talking of pine-apples, I suppose there never were so many pine-apples in a Train as there appear to be in this Train.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

I clicked the last one, Yellow feber and that was an Osaka-based environmental site with amongst other things had diagrams of some 50 Japanese cities sea-level rise effects…That reminds me of the probably urban legend that it was a Japanese pine-apple farmer who was afraid he would get salty water in his pine-apples and started lobbying…The Swedes were mostly under water in the Osaka WC in athletics some weeks ago, though…

Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit 2007

Each of the monstrous animals had a castle on its back, armed with Mauritanian archers and the celebrated Persian matchlock-men: it was the feeding time of these royal brutes, and the grooms were observed bringing immense toffungs, or baskets, filled with pine-apples, plantains, bandannas, Indian corn, and cocoa-nuts, which grow luxuriantly at all seasons of the year.

Burlesques 2006

The captain came to meet us; our boy, who had been sent ahead was there to take the horses; and we passed inside the court which was full of food, and rang continuously to the voice of the caller of gifts; I had to blush a little later when my own present came, and I heard my one pig and eight miserable pine-apples being counted out like guineas.

Vailima Letters 2005