1 Everybody was riding out Peachtree road to gather greenery and have a picnic and melon cutting.
2 While Pork stood with the little melon clutched to him, uncertain as to the final decision, they heard Prissy cry out.
3 His rosy face, with its snub nose, set in this fleece, was like a melon among its leaves.
4 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.
5 When Mr. Shimerda and Krajiek drove up in their wagon to take Peter to the train, they found him with a dripping beard, surrounded by heaps of melon rinds.
6 His head, in truth, felt precisely like a melon, and there was an unpleasant sensation at his stomach.
7 A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he were dragging or spreading out something on the ground.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 8 From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the melon patch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 9 In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in spreading over the melon bed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 10 Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his melon patch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN... 11 Nothing of this triumph reached Fauchelevent in his hut; he went on grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least suspecting his excellences and his sanctity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY 12 First, she rooted among a heap of litter; then, in passing, she ate up a young pullet; lastly, she proceeded carelessly to munch some pieces of melon rind.
13 Beside it hung a huge, grimy oil painting representative of some flowers and fruit, half a water melon, a boar's head, and the pendent form of a dead wild duck.
14 He found Joe Harper and Huck Finn up an alley eating a stolen melon.
15 I split the melons with an old corn-knife, and we lifted out the hearts and ate them with the juice trickling through our fingers.