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  • Everything pointed to long dreary evening, the serving-up of that "thrice boiled cole-wort" which Carlyle honestly believed to form the principal dish in the House of Commons shilling dinner.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 Various 1898

  • Peter, "are covered with plants of the common sea cole-wort, of which the sinuated leaves and clustered blossoms would have exhausted the patience of any other artist; but have appeared worthy of prolonged and thoughtful labour to the great mind of Raphael. '

    The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

  • "They called February Sprout-kele, by kele meaning the kele-wort, which we now call the cole-wort, the great pot-wort in time long past that our ancestors used; and the broth made therewith was thereof also called kele.

    Words and Pictures From Old Books 2010

  • "They called February Sprout-kele, by kele meaning the kele-wort, which we now call the cole-wort, the great pot-wort in time long past that our ancestors used; and the broth made therewith was thereof also called kele.

    Words and Pictures From Old Books 2010

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