vegetable-garden

His fat-soiled vegetable-garden in the nook of hills that failed of its best was a problem of engrossing importance, and when he had solved it by putting in drain-tile, the joy of the achievement was ever with him.

Chapter XXV 2010

On the right-hand side of the road was a vegetable-garden cleared of its crops and gloomy-looking, with here and there sunflowers standing up in it with hanging heads already black.

The Wife 2004

A white dog with a muddy tail who was wandering about the vegetable-garden looking for something gazed at him and sauntered after him.

The Wife 2004

Besides this, the bees, whose hives, thatched with straw, lined the wall of the vegetable-garden, covered the flowery field in their yellow, buzzing flight.

Strong as Death 2003

The orchard, where a space had been leveled for a tennis-court, was a great, square grass-plot, planted with apple-trees, inclosed by the park, the vegetable-garden, and the farms belonging to the castle.

Strong as Death 2003

From the verandah they went down into the vegetable-garden, where the drab and tangled growths that had outlived the summer were beaten flat by the recent rains.

Australia Felix 2003

Beyond the yard the ground fell away gradually in a long vegetable-garden and fowl-run to the town wall, and the family holding extended even beyond, through an arched doorway to an open stretch of smooth grass going down to the riverside.

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

"Down at the end of the vegetable-garden," was the reply, "and close beside the laundry."

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

Now Monsieur Leclerc came to her aid again at odd minutes, and set her flower-beds with mignonette borders, and her vegetable-garden with salad herbs of new and flourishing kinds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

Of the vegetable-garden, which lies adjacent, the lion's share is appropriated to the Master, and twelve small, separate patches to the individual brethren, who cultivate them at their own judgment and by their own labor; and their beans and cauliflowers have a better flavor, I doubt not, than if they had received them directly from the dead hand of the Earl of Leicester, like the rest of their food.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various