"Beetroot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his whisky and water, "to return to our lambs, I bow to your patrician prejudices in favour of forks. But your patriotic prejudices are on a different level. There, I am on the same ground as you, and I vow I see nothing inherently superior in the British combination of beef and beetroot, to the German ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... turned suddenly red as a beetroot. The colour mounted slowly to his ears, from his ears to his temples, and by degrees suffused his whole face. Yevgraf Ivanovitch shifted in his chair and unbuttoned his shirt-collar to save himself from choking. He was evidently struggling with the feeling that ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... be round in a minute. Drive back with me, won't you? Extraordinary, sultry day; you're as red as a beetroot already." ...
— In a German Pension • Katherine Mansfield
... erstwhile travelling companions and took to travelling townwards by an earlier train. He sometimes tries to enlist the sympathy and attention of a chance acquaintance in details of the whistling prowess of his best canary or the dimensions of his largest beetroot; he scarcely recognises himself as the man who was once spoken about and pointed out as the owner of ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... looked at Mr. Bumpkin; while the latter coloured until his complexion resembled beetroot. Miss Prettyface giggled; and Mrs. Oldtimes winked at Mr. Bumpkin, and shook her head in the ...
— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris |
