pea pod

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As peascod once I pluck'd, I chanced to see   One that was closely fill'd with three times three,   Which, when I cropp'd, I safely home couvey'd,   And o'er the door the spell in secret laid.

From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)

"She's as poor as a peascod in a drouth."

From Opportunities by Warner, Susan

Tell them, Fool, that when the life and the mind are broken the truth comes through them like peas through a broken peascod.

From The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays by Gregory, Lady

The peascod green, oft with no little toil He'd seek for in the fattest, fertil'st soil And rend it from the stalk to bring it to her, And in her bosom for acceptance woo her.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Does Shakespeare allude to some notion of this kind by the wooing of a peascod in As You Like It, ii.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)