These towering trees were under as careful cultivation as so many cabbages.
She decided to move to another part of the world where she raised cabbages instead of bananas.
'I will buy these six cabbages, but, as you see, I can only walk with my stick and can carry nothing.
See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs! Early apples, ladies; early pears and apricots, and all cheap.
From my window I could descry, at no great distance, a very ordinary mortal of a man, working industriously among his cabbages.
I don't care who the man is, snails and caterpillars always will lurk in close to the stump of cabbages in that tantalizing way."
I gathered together certain certificates of goods and chattels, pointed my heel towards him and his cabbages, and journeyed townward.
People looked upon me scornfully, pitifully, reproachfully. (I can swear they did.) In every eye I read the question, Man, where are your cabbages?
As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, 'Bad stuff, bad stuff.'
"Many things," answered the rabbit, who was pleased to hear the girl speak in his own language; "in summer-time I see the clover-leaves that I love to feed upon and the cabbages at the end of the farmer's garden.