pea-time

Peter looked like a literary version of what Sam called "the last of pea-time," which is a very vivid expression to a person who has just seen her poor peas drop away in the August garden.

Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

Poor 'Fly!' the last of pea-time, who looks like an animated hair-trunk and the wagon and harness to match!

Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896

Poor 'Fly!' the last of pea-time, who looks like an animated hair - trunk and the wagon and harness to match!

Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874

The robin, the most knowing and greedy bird out of paradise (I trust he will always be kept out), has discovered that the grape-crop is uncommonly good, and has come back, with his whole tribe and family, larger than it was in pea-time.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The robin, the most knowing and greedy bird out of paradise (I trust he will always be kept out), has discovered that the grape-crop is uncommonly good, and has come back, with his whole tribe and family, larger than it was in pea-time.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Well, you can 'magin how I jurkt at that wudden leg, for it war the last of pea-time with me, sure, if I didn't rise

Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" 1858