1 All I want is some pea soup an a good bed.
2 Some pea soup, he repeated dreamfully.
3 Then he drew from his waistcoat-pocket the little emerald box, raised the golden lid, and took from it a pastille about the size of a pea, which he placed in her hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 101. Locusta. 4 The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.
5 They fed their prisoners on what the soldiers in the field were eating, fat pork and dried peas, and on this diet the Yankees died like flies, sometimes a hundred a day.
6 One bag of dried peas had burst and the peas strewed themselves into the street.
7 They must have dried peas and sorghum and meal and rice and--and-- oh, so many things.
8 And the flour and rice and dried peas.
9 Sometimes he returned with game, sometimes with a few ears of corn, a bag of dried peas.
10 The family ate it with relish but a sense of guilt, knowing very well Pork had stolen it, as he had stolen the peas and corn.
11 And then there'll never be any hominy or dried peas on my table.
12 A fat mulatto woman, who was leaning over a rusty old stove, dropped a half curtsy as she saw Scarlett and went on stirring a pot in which black-eyed peas were cooking.
13 She saw that except for the peas and a pan of corn pone there was no other food being prepared.
14 Her appetite never dulled, for whenever she remembered the everlasting goobers and dried peas and sweet potatoes at Tara, she felt an urge to gorge herself anew of Creole dishes.
15 She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE REAL PRINCESS