Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullaces
Literary usage of Bullaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of John Pounds by Henry Hawkes (1884)
""No, Mr. Pounds; I has to climb up a tree to get bullaces. ... bullaces. I'se
not eat more than one sloe at a time; or two, at most; 'cause they's so sour ..."
2. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1860)
"And so we did eat bullaces till we could eat no longer, and we did fill our
pockets till we could cram them no fuller; and then, full of delight, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"‘I bullaces “ are a small white or yellow plum, about the size of a cherry, like
a very poor kind of greengage, which, in ordinary seasons, when I was a boy ..."
4. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1868)
"When I reflect that they are preserved, I ought not to grieve about my damsons
and bullaces, done by Mrs. Maria Dover's receipt. Among other things we came ..."
5. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"... beginning with the bloom of the bullaces in the fence. The various Plums and
Damsons are beautiful in bloom, as in the Thames valley and about Evesham. ..."
6. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"... Medlars, Damsons, bullaces, and Quinces. To make pictures to last round the
year, I should ask for many of these orchard trees on a few acres of ground, ..."
7. Hood's Own: Or, Laughter from Year to Year: Being Former Runnings of His by Thomas Hood (1855)
"When I reflect that they are preserved, I ought not to grieve about my damsons
and bullaces, done by Mrs. Maria Dover's receipt. Among other things we came ..."
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