What is "gherkins"

Usage examples of "gherkins".

He thought of the gherkins they sold there, great green things lurking at the bottom of their jar like drowned whales.

I want to go back to where—‘ a trace of moisture appeared in Rincewind’s eye – ‘to where there’s cobbles under your feet and some of the beer isn’t too bad and you can get quite a good piece of fried fish of an evening, with maybe a couple of big green gherkins, and even an eel pie and a dish of whelks, and there’s always a warm stable somewhere to sleep in and in the morning you are always in the same place as you were the night before and there wasn’t all this weather all over the place.

I want to go back to where—' a trace of moisture appeared in Rincewind's eye — 'to where there's cobbles under your feet and some of the beer isn't too bad and you can get quite a good piece of fried fish of an evening, with maybe a couple of big green gherkins, and even an eel pie and a dish of whelks, and there's always a warm stable somewhere to sleep in and in the morning you are always in the same place as you were the night before and there wasn't all this weather all over the place.

They kept making me walk round with trays of gherkins and glasses of cream sherry in a desperate bid to throw me into Mark Darcy's path yet again.

In the end they were so crazed with frustration that the second I got within four feet of him with the gherkins Una threw herself across the room like Will Carling and said, 'Mark, you must take Bridget's telephone number before you go, then you can get in touch when you're in London.

Then I had to keep a pot handy, because gobbling the gherkins made Mice's awful toddler Valentinianus sick in my newly painted dining room.

Then she picked up another sooty jar of gherkins, which sloshed as she turned it over.