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Usage examples of radishes.

She bent and pulled a couple of radishes, rubbed the earth off them, and crunched into them.

With three pieces of the gold he bought good seed from the south, full grains of wheat and of rice and of corn, and for very recklessness of riches he bought seeds the like of which he had never planted before, celery and lotus for his pond and great red radishes that are stewed with pork for a feast dish and small red fragrant beans.

She picked up her pace, adding a head of lettuce and a bag of radishes to her cart.

They had been ages working out how you put recognisable hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades on each as a motif, but between radishes and black olives as fiddly little decorations they had come up with something acceptable.

It was another summer day, and she had opened all the windows and left the door to the kitchen open while she pottered to and fro, pulling radishes and cutting lettuce ready for supper that evening.