"Bean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flowers; and we found two sorts of grain like beans; the one grew on bushes, the other on a sort of creeping vine that runs along on the ground, having very thick broad leaves, and the blossom like a bean blossom, but much larger and of a deep red colour, looking very beautiful. We saw here some cormorants, gulls, crab-catchers, etc., a few small land birds, and a sort of white parrots, which flew a great many together. We found some shell-fish, viz., limpets, periwinkles, and abundance ...
— Early Australian Voyages • John Pinkerton
... the vegetable garden, "the lettuce and radishes are growing finely, and here's a bean. Oh, there are lots of them just putting ...
— Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) • Francis W. Parker and Nellie Lathrop Helm
... us all they think, And party leaders all they mean, - When what we pay for, that we drink, From real grape and coffee-bean, - ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... long, and the leaf itself four or six more. In each head were four or five branches of seed-pods, in appearance something like the fruit of the plantain. When they burst each pod was found to contain thirty or more seeds, in shape like a small bean, covered up with a very fine fibre of a brilliant purple or blue colour. The most singular arrangement, which gains this tree the name it bears, is the pure water which it contains. This is found in ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston
... of the corn field they found a garden of tall pea and bean vines which they entered. This field projected into the village and when they reached its end they saw a great increase of lights and heard the hum of voices. Peeping from their precarious covert they beheld the dusky figures of warriors ...
— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler
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