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And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow

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And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow

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Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall window, as if to warn the Governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as New England earth would offer him.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

There is a legal axiom which would settle the pumpkin-vine query -- that of _cujus est solum ejus est usque ad coelum_ -- 'ownership in the soil confers possession of everything even as high as heaven.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Montanus, in his travels through Muscovy, speaks of a wonderful plant on the borders of Tartary, which resembled a pumpkin-vine in appearance, only that instead of pumpkins it produced lambs covered with wool.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

BILLY BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about his wife: she is "too young to leave her mammy," can "bake a cherry-pie," is "as tall as a pine and as straight as a pumpkin-vine," is "twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven," and so on.

A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Josiah Henry Combs 1923

Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall window, as if to warn the Governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as New England earth would offer him.

VII. The Governor’s Hall 1917

And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow,

Reminiscent Poems , from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow,

Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow,

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849