turnip-tops

• “The way was open into the next field -- a turnip field -- and there amidst the crisp breaking turnip-tops, with the breath of his enemies hot upon him, with their sharp teeth at his entrails, biting at them impotently in the agonies of his death struggle, poor Reynard finished his career.”

  Can You Forgive Her?

• “Scotch kail, turnip-tops, &c., & c. _, can be prepared this way.”

  Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes

• “Thus differing from some of the inhabitants of Golders Green, who are vegetarians and live on turnip-tops.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914

• “What with carrots in the morning and turnip-tops for tea,”

  Christmas Roses

• “Swinging along at a good pace the turnip-tops whipped my boots and made quite a noise.”

  'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany

• “Of turnip-tops and lucerne greens I've had enough to eat,”

  Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

• “Tuesday morning saw Lord Peter and a man in a velveteen jacket swishing merrily through seven acres of turnip-tops, streaked yellow with early frosts.”

  Whose Body

• “The turnip-tops I put in the bottom of the dish, then laid on the potatoes, covering with water and adding salt.”

  Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany

• “On this stove I made some very acceptable mulligan out of young turnip-tops”

  Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany

• “I remember that once I lived for a week or more on buttermilk, on account of not being able to stomach the fat bacon, the rank turnip-tops, and the heavy damp mixture of meal, salt, and water which was called corn bread.”

  The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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