1 These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.
2 By gymnastics and careful attention to his health he had brought himself to such a point that in spite of his excess in pleasure he looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber.
3 But Miss Ellen jes' as cool as a cucumber.
4 The fact that she raised it nearly to the level of his lips apprised him of the circumstance that it had just been rinsed in cucumber oil.
5 As we rode up the draw, we skirted a big melon patch, and a garden where squashes and yellow cucumbers lay about on the sod.
6 That day the floor was covered with garden things, drying for winter; corn and beans and fat yellow cucumbers.
7 Before we left, Peter put ripe cucumbers into a sack for Mrs. Shimerda and gave us a lard-pail full of milk to cook them in.
8 I had never heard of cooking cucumbers, but Antonia assured me they were very good.
9 He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
10 Before him stood the orderly with a tray of brandy and salted cucumbers.
11 I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money.