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  • With sweet peas growin 'up the sides, and in back a patch for vegetables -- string-beans and spinach and radishes, cucumbers and

    CHAPTER 13 2010

  • Try the fish croquette, the coconaut string-beans and one of my all-time favorite a delicious chicken masala.

    Two in the Mission: Limón and Range 2005

  • I think a hundred rows of string-beans will be enough to start with, Mr. Farrell.

    Peggy in Her Blue Frock Eliza Orne White

  • Add some cold boiled string-beans, some cold boiled asparagus tips, two tablespoons of cold cooked peas, one cold boiled carrot, and some celery.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

  • Fill the centre with a salad composed of cucumber cut into dice, peas, string-beans cooked until tender (for this purpose the canned French string-beans serve admirably, being beautifully cut ready).

    Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

  • There were rows and rows of peas, and rows and rows of string-beans and shell-beans, and some corn and turnips and carrots, and, also, a great many tomato plants.

    Peggy in Her Blue Frock Eliza Orne White

  • Cut off the ends and string some young string-beans.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

  • At our first arrival, we found green peas ready for gathering, and these, instead of the string-beans, were the first offering of the garden to our board.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

  • Take some young string-beans, cut off the ends, and string them.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

  • Still, it was a very pleasant moment when I gathered the first string-beans, which were the earliest esculent that the garden contributed to our table.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

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