pea-cod

Wamba, ` ` and see whether they be thy children's coats or no --- for they are as like thine own, as one green pea-cod is to another. ''

Ivanhoe 1892

She frankly stepped beside him, so close that her full-skirted dress half encompassed him and the basin in a delicious confusion, and, leaning over his lap, with her left hand picked up a pea-cod, which, with a single movement of her charming little right thumb, she broke at the end, and stripped the green shallow of its tiny treasures.

A Phyllis of the Sierras Bret Harte 1869

"You may look at their cassocks close by," said Wamba, "and see whether they be thy children's coats or no -- - for they are as like thine own, as one green pea-cod is to another."

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

I value Tony Foster's wrath no more than a shelled pea-cod; and I will visit his Lindabrides, by Saint

Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

"You may look at their cassocks close by," said Wamba, "and see whether they be thy children's coats or no -- for they are as like thine own, as one green pea-cod is to another."

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

Foster’s wrath no more than a shelled pea-cod; and I will visit his

Kenilworth 2004