cabbage
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Cargil and his son, Ryan, had spent months nursing crops of cabbage and onions to harvest.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Much of the menu is prepared over a live hearth, and traditional Polish dishes sit alongside inventive creations like duck confit cabbage rolls and pork belly pączki.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Now, they are trying to stretch out what food remains: instant noodles, carrots, mushrooms and cabbage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
"Genetic diversity is a resource for us too as humans, especially the wild relatives of crops. We've got quite a few in Wales, like sea radish, sea carrot, sea cabbage," said Kevin.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
‘A pity to throw your life away for a cabbage, after all we’ve done together.’
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In an evil moment he "cabbaged" some cloth, was detected, tried, condemned, and sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment.
From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote
Bacon treats of the instrument in his “Novum Organum;” from which Newton cabbaged his ideas in his “Principia,” in the most unprincipled manner.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841 by Various
They run out of all they cabbaged here perty quick.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
The shorn tailor left the office protesting that Sir Peter had not treated him handsomely, as he had only consented to sacrifice his flowing locks, but that the Alderman had cabbaged his whiskers as well.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading—room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
The next step I took was to order William Francis, John Thompson, Samuel Picket, and Joshua Peck to be taken into custody, on their return from cabbaging.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter
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