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  • Sarah and her friend are having glasses of white wine, and they started their meal with chilled sweet-pea soup.

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  • Sarah and her friend are having glasses of white wine, and they started their meal with chilled sweet-pea soup.

    Campaign Aims To Make Meatless Mondays Hip 2010

  • We're going to have a lobster salad, a vegetable medley, a sweet-pea soup with Black Russian truffles and wonderful petit fours.

    'Everybody's A Celebrity, Really' 2007

  • But let me just add that I recently discovered, quite by accident, that my beloved love-bug sweet-pea princess niece who just turned five is a bona fide Mean Girl.

    How Girls Express Aggression and Online Fandom Dynamics 2006

  • The final touch is absolute of broom – as a memory for the blooming brooms at the same time of the year, which also highly complement the orange blossom with their sweet-pea like aroma.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Ayala Sender 2006

  • If you ever want to have a marathon with a like-minded lover of campalicious space adventures, lemme know, sweet-pea.

    9th June '05 hipikat 2005

  • The forest, the jungle, the grassy spots, the hot rocks (with hoya and orchids), and even the sands, with the native sweet-pea, are fragrant.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • I thought despairingly of the sweet-pea penwipers I would have to purchase.

    To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

  • Basically, it is safe to say that practically anything from the garden, forest or kitchen can be run through the rabbit hutch - banana and paw-paw peels, pineapple cores, palm branches, corn stalks, peanut and sweet-pea vines, weeds, alfalfa, stylo-santhis.

    28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996

  • This corner the industrious little insects made the headquarters of their honey campaign, sallying out from thence to taste a sweet-pea or scarlet-runner and giving a passing kiss to a gaudy fuchsia, who wore a red coat and blue corporation sort of waistcoat, as they went homeward to their hive.

    Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

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