rutabaga

• Everyone was looking at her now and she thought if she were a teacher, she wouldn't pick on a new student that way. —  Outside In
• On one such evening dark and cool, Sethe cut a rutabaga into four pieces and left them stewing. —  Beloved
• Above the patter of the pea sorting and the sharp odor of cooking rutabaga, Sethe explained the crystal that once hung from her ears. —  Beloved
• Tasslehoff closed his eyes so he wouldn't have to see the gnome, but he saw him anyway-his nut-brown face and his wispy hair that floated about his head as though he were perpetually poking his finger into one of his own inventions, perhaps the steam-powered preambulating hubble-bubble or the locomotive, self-winding rutabaga slicer. —  Dragons Of A Vanished Moon
• "'Jeff,' says he, 'I've been thinking that we ought to drop these rutabaga fanciers and give our attention to something more nourishing and prolific. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

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