What is "lettuces"

Usage examples of "lettuces".

He had so many wives that there was no counting them, and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them, and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover, and El-ahrairah was the father of them all.

When he came back he looked very grave and said, 'Great King, I know well what sorry news it will be to you, but the cause of your sickness is those very lettuces by which you set such store.

I would strongly advise Your Majesty,' went on El-ahrairah, 'not to leave the lettuces where they are, for they will shoot and flower and seed.

I was going out for lettuces that morning and for some reason or other I'd decided to go alone.

His rabbits' lives were in danger because of Hufsa--to say nothing of all the lettuces and cabbages they were missing.

But, however it was, King Darzin got to know that he had been made a fool when he delivered his lettuces to the marshes of Kelfazin.

After two or three weeks of spoiled lettuces and nibbled cabbage plants, the cottager had lain in wait and shot him as he came through the potato patch at dawn.

Through the glass windows he could look down the kitchen garden at the lettuces, the peas and beans, the redcurrant bushes and the gooseberries of which he was so proud.

He would settle down to weed the lettuces only to be interrupted by the bell in the greenhouse.

As he went down the rows of lettuces with his hoe, Blott shook his head.

I plant a new row of lettuce every week, Elizabeth, and then we have new lettuces growing in different sizes, so that each week I have a fresh row to pull.

He landed with a thud on a bed of lettuces, and the wind was loudly knocked out of him, mortifyingly so, through all available orifices.

He picked his way carefully down the first few rungs, then jumped manfully the rest of the way, avoiding the lettuces this time.

If another, then, paying a halfpenny, takes the lettuces, and you, not paying it, go without them, do not imagine that he hath gained any advantage over you.

For as he hath the lettuces, so you have the halfpenny which you did not give.