Meanings of black peas in English

Well, the negroes are 'the black peas' which Americans detest.

There are two things at the bottom of this and they are-twolittle black peas!

The ammunition-wagons were filled with black peas.

Never were two black peas more alike.

The black peas (mame) signify bodily strength and health, because a word similarly pronounced, though written with a different ideograph, means 'robust.'

He had nothing to eat but a little black bread and boiled turnips and now and then a little soup with black peas in it.

"I was never more surprised," said Jules, "than when I saw you both exhibit black peas.

"That is true enough, sir," Hal agreed; "but we came into the possession of those black peas accidentally and with no thought of their significance."