 | Carroll Davidson Wright, Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor - 1889 - 272 Seiten
...were many of them unknown, or if known were expensive luxuries only obtainable by the favored few. " Among the fruits and vegetables of which no one had...cauliflower, the egg-plant, head lettuce, and okra. ********* If the food of an artisan would now be thought coarse, his clothes would be thought abominable.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - 1890 - 708 Seiten
...or cantaloupes. One hundred years ago the wretched fox-grape was the only kind that found its way to market, and was the luxury of the rich. Among the...cauliflower, the egg-plant, head lettuce, and okra. On the window-benches of every tenement-house may be seen growing geraniums and verbenas, flowers not... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1891 - 654 Seiten
...cantaloupes.* One hundred years ago the wretched fox-grape was the only kind that found its way to market, and was the luxury of the rich. Among the...cauliflower, the egg-plant, head lettuce, and okra. On the window-benches of every tenement-house may be seen growing geraniums and verbenas, flowers not... | |
 | Calvin Patterson - 1897 - 204 Seiten
...waiting to be garnered. Among the fruits and vegetables of which no one had heard a hundred years ago are cantaloupes, many varieties of peaches and pears,...cauliflower, the eggplant, head lettuce, and okra. — John B. McMaster. 281. Selections for Dictation. ad vance' trout' ing main' te nance as sist' syT... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 658 Seiten
...cantaloupes.* One hundred years ago the wretched fox-grape was the only kind that found its way to market, and was the luxury of the rich. Among the...varieties of peaches and pears, tomatoes and rhubarb, eweet corn, the cauliflower, the egg-plant, head lettuce, and okra. On the window-benches of every... | |
 | Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Charles Manfred Thompson - 1916 - 904 Seiten
...were many of them unknown, or if known were expensive luxuries only obtainable by the favored few. "Among the fruits and vegetables of which no one had...tomatoes and rhubarb, sweet corn, the cauliflower, the egg plant, head lettuce, and okra. "If the food of an artisan would now be thought coarse, his clothes... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1917 - 458 Seiten
...or cantaloupes. One hundred years ago the wretched fox-grape was the only kind that found its way to market, and was the luxury of the rich. Among the...cauliflower, the egg-plant, head lettuce and okra. On the window-benches of every tenement-house may be seen growing geraniums and verbenas, flowers not... | |
 | 1934 - 988 Seiten
...the favored few. McMaster, speaking of the food and clothing of the early American workingman, says: Among the fruits and vegetables of which no one had...tomatoes and rhubarb, sweet corn, the cauliflower, the egg plant, head lettuce, and okra. If the food of an artisan would now be thought coarse, his clothes... | |
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One hundred years ago the wretched fox-grape was the only kind that found its way to market, and was the luxury of the rich. Among the fruits and vegetables of which no one had then even heard are cantaloupes, many varieties of peaches and pears, tomatoes... 