sparrowgrass

"sparrowgrass," so handy to fill the black and yawning chasms of summer fireplaces and furnish green for "boquets."

Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

I called to see father last night, and had supper there; and you should have seen how lovely she were — eating sparrowgrass sideways, as if she were born to it.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Mind me now, and take the tops of your sparrowgrass.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

If I was housekeeper here, an 'cud have hothouse strawberries, an' swatebreads undher glass, an 'sparrowgrass, an' chicken, _an'_ ice crame, the way you can, whiniver yuh loike, I wouldn't be a-eatin 'cornbeef an' cabbage.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

Look at old Pedro and Philippa over there, setting out that stuff that looks like sparrowgrass.

West Wind Drift George Barr McCutcheon 1897

I called to see father last night, and had supper there; and you should have seen how lovely she were -- eating sparrowgrass sideways, as if she were born to it.

The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884

I hope E.G. R. will, however, not insist on classing those who say and write "mangold" with those who would write "reddishes, sparrowgrass, and cowcumbers."

Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Mind me now, and take the tops of your sparrowgrass.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Mind me now, and take the tops of your sparrowgrass.

Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

So home, and having brought home with me from Fenchurch Street a hundred of sparrowgrass, -- [A form once so commonly used for asparagus that it has found its way into dictionaries.] -- cost 18d.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668