Val jerked a sweet-pea viciously from its stem, pressed her hand against her mouth, and turned reluctantly toward him.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
The food supply, as will be seen by the following list, was mostly pemmican: Eight hundred and five pounds of beef pemmican, one hundred and thirty pounds of walrus pemmican, fifty pounds of musk ox tenderloin, twenty-five pounds of musk ox tallow, two pounds of tea, one pound of coffee, twenty-five pounds of sugar, forty pounds of condensed milk, sixty pounds of milk biscuit, ten pounds of pea soup powdered and compressed, fifty pounds of surprises, forty pounds petroleum, two pounds of wood alcohol, three pounds of candles and one pound of matches.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
"If you get a boy," he says, "to be able to lay a pea in the middle of two other peas, and in a straight line with these two, that boy is a vast way on in the arts."
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae