They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
. . . . try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.
These Atlantikoinonia. They’re human? (Acheron) What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here. ' He tapped his own chest. 'Here. ' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside. ' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
