"Juicy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins' russet peel, And, when his juicy salads failed, ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... that was different. There was no grain to be had for them. They had been starving for a month, for the Indians had burned the grass before us wherever we went, and here in the pine-covered hills what grass could be found was scant and wiry,—not the rich, juicy, strength-giving bunch grass of the open country. Of my two horses, neither was in condition to do military duty when we got to Whitewood. I was adjutant of the regiment, and had to be bustling around a good deal; and so it happened that one day the colonel said to me, "Well, here's Van. He can't ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... many a winter season gone. Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. In easy state upon this couch there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up, to shed ...
— A Christmas Carol • Charles Dickens
... McChesney loitered, looking in at the shop windows and watching the women hurrying by, intent on the purchase of their Sunday dinners, that vaguely restless feeling seized her again. There were rows of plump fowls in the butcher-shop windows, and juicy roasts. The cunning hand of the butcher had enhanced the redness of the meat by trimmings of curly parsley. Salad things and new vegetables glowed behind the grocers' plate-glass. There were the ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber
... after mother. She was for handing me a nice, juicy lemon, but I gave her a line of talk that fetched ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
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