Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.
The three peas were however put into the cabinet of curiosities, where they are still to be seen, provided they are not lost.
He looks up at the coach, and just then a
pea hits him on the nose, and some catches his cob behind and makes him dance up on his hind legs.
They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the
peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.
I gave them a
pea soup and lobster a la portugaise, and a curry, and a cocoa-nut salad -- you've never had one of my cocoa-nut salads, have you?
"I don't know what I wouldn't sooner have had happen," thought Marilla, as she nervously shelled the
peas. "Of course, I don't suppose she meant to steal it or anything like that.
The
peas and potatoes might have been a bit softer, but we all had good teeth, so that did not matter much: and as for the gravy, it was a poem - a little too rich, perhaps, for a weak stomach, but nutritious.
peas so late!" -- for I continued to plant when others had begun to hoe -- the ministerial husbandman had not suspected it.
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As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of
pea coffee.
They still preserved their ample buckskin seat intact; and so his short pea jacket and his long, thin legs assisted to make him a picturesque object whenever he stood on the forecastle looking abroad upon the ocean over the bows.
It would have been worth any price if the father of this hopeful youth could have stepped on board some time, and seen him standing high on the fore-castle, pea jacket, tasseled red fez, buckskin patch and all, placidly contemplating the ocean--a rare spectacle for any body's drawing-room.