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Usage examples of onions.

From the rafters hung corn by braided husks, squashes strung together like outlandish necklaces, wild onions, apples, and great bundles of dried greenery and herbs Elizabeth could not begin to name.

Paul shoveled on some grilled onions, then filled another paper cone with french fries.

We ordered beer, blood sausage, onions, and rye bread, and, even before our order came, spread out the slightly damp photographs over the little round table and, while partaking of our beer and blood sausage, which had arrived in the meantime, immersed ourselves in our own strained features.

If a person ate nothing but raw onions, he could live to be two hundred years old.

Katherine Barlow bought onions, she always bought an extra one or two and would let Mary Lou eat them out of her hand.

Tennyson an additional three onions, and she fed them one at a time to Mary Lou.

Zero slept off and on for the next two days, ate onions, all they wanted, and splashed dirty water into their mouths.

He was still very sick and weak, but the sleep and the onions seemed to be doing him some good.

It was the smell of thousands of onions, growing and rotting and sprouting.

They had spent the morning picking onions and putting them in the sack.

Zero held the shovel, and Stanley carried the sack, which was crammed with onions and the three jars of water.

They were sugar-frosted flakes, and after eating nothing but onions for more than a week, he had trouble adjusting to the flavor.

Wild onions growing on the hillside, a stream and a pond, where geese landed in spring and fall.

The concentrated odor of onions nearly dropped him in his tracks, and only a determined effort kept the smile in place as Ilya clapped him on the back and turned him to face the expectant sea of young women.

Elizabeth found she had a ferocious appetite, and she concentrated on her food: there was the turkey, which had been roasted over the hearth, squash, onions and beans baked in molasses, and corn bread.