Why should one man be given gold, and another be given parchedpeas?
2
Only, you see, when I once start, I would play for nuts, for parchedpeas, for any rubbish.
Uso de black peas en inglés
1
Well, the negroes are 'the blackpeas' which Americans detest.
2
There are two things at the bottom of this and they are-twolittle blackpeas!
3
The ammunition-wagons were filled with blackpeas.
4
Never were two blackpeas more alike.
5
The blackpeas (mame) signify bodily strength and health, because a word similarly pronounced, though written with a different ideograph, means 'robust.'
6
He had nothing to eat but a little black bread and boiled turnips and now and then a little soup with blackpeas in it.
7
"I was never more surprised," said Jules, "than when I saw you both exhibit blackpeas.
8
"That is true enough, sir," Hal agreed; "but we came into the possession of those blackpeas accidentally and with no thought of their significance."