The eatable parts of the plants are the leaf blades with the smaller veins. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The former porter mentioned each successive kind of eatable, as if he were musingly summing up his good actions. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes] Reference
In many of them we saw fires, and in some of them observed that kind of eatable to which they give the name of cabra. From Wordnik.com. [The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant] Reference
They must be freshly mashed and very hot to be eatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
We took possession of all that was eatable on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Anything eatable disappeared into his mouth immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Found an eatable fruit on a handsome tree of the palm kind. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
German and French armies have requisitioned everything eatable?. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
"But I won't promise it is eatable," she assured them, laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference
Within this white eatable shell, is a milky liquid, called cocoa-nut milk. From Wordnik.com. [New National Fourth Reader] Reference
Their diet includes practically everything eatable they can capture or kill. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
No game of any kind appeared, and even the eatable roots were not to be found. From Wordnik.com. [The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773] Reference
It is eatable from the time it has four or six leaves until it has a hard heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
There came a day when everything eatable was exhausted, and the prospect was dark, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet, the Moses of Her People] Reference
The little stream proved to be full to overflowing with fish, small to be sure, but still eatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers] Reference
Meanwhile Lady Bell sniffing something eatable, had drawn near Peggy, half doubtful, half trustful. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
There was no sale for anything eatable in the smoker just then and the boy returned to the rear cars. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
If made with nicety it is the most delicate of all sweets; if cooked till it wheys it is hardly eatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
One remembers this style and title well, because it puts us in mind of the nicest thing eatable that the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
He had been keeping it for emergency rations, and we almost ate him in our joy at seeing anything eatable. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Jaws of Death] Reference
Each man drew a ticket and chose his eatable, some putting it carefully away, others bolting it immediately. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
The comparative calm of Saturday incited us to have recourse to all sorts of tricks to unearth what was eatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
A visitor must bring in his hand some eatable; he will be doubly welcome if he carries in a hot stoup or 'plotie.'. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Max now declared himself savagely hungry, and commenced exploring the neighbourhood in search of something eatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
This pithy matter varies in colour from a rusty tinge to white, and is rather like the eatable part of a dry apple. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Mohammedan has, with some unimportant reservations, highly rational notions as concerns the eatable and the drinkable. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
India, are sweet and eatable, and the aquatic plants which furnish them are hence an extensive article of cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Cabbage family, which form neither heads as the common cabbage, nor eatable flowers like the broccoli and cauliflower. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Master would say yes an 'that night more chicken would be fry an' everything eatable would be prepare at master 'expense. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
"It requires little room in frames in winter, and yields a great return in spring, as almost the whole plant is eatable.". From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Veal never being sold in Rome until the calf is a two-year-old heifer, was no longer veal, but tender beef, and was eatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
Thereafter she devotedly ministered to his wants, fetched water and food, and made, under his tuition, really eatable bread. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
It should be noted that Pears dried in the oven, and kept without syrup, will remain quite good, and eatable for a year or more. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
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