"Greengage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with an air of solemn resignation. Marguerite caught the greengage as neatly as it ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman
... and the show of apples and plums in Mr. Anstey's garden on the hills are fine beyond description, and could not be surpassed in any part of the world—it may readily be imagined, therefore, that the intermediate fruit trees, such as the peach, the nectarine, the pear, the cherry, the greengage, and others, are of the most vigorous habits. All of them, indeed, are standards, and the wood they make during one season, is the best proof that can be given of their congeniality to the soil and ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt |
