These soups may likewise be improved, by mixing with them various kinds of cheap roots and green vegetables, as turnips, carrots, parsnips, celery, cabbages, sour-crout, etc. as also by seasoning them with fine herbs and black pepper.--Onions and leeks may likewise be used with great advantage, as they not only serve to render the Food in which they enter as ingredients peculiarly savoury, but are really very wholesome.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Purrum / Purrun, n. Lee, or Leek; the name of a numerous Gypsy tribe in the neighbourhood of London. Pur (onion). Porrum. Purana (ancient).英文原著 · 《Gypsy Dictionary》
"My girl! it was a Sunday morn, And many a man ne'er saw its eve, Though ale and leeks by old wives borne The bruised and wounded did relieve. 'Twas Sunday morn, when Svein calls out, `Stem to stem your vessels bind;' The raven a mid-day feast smells out, And he comes croaking up the wind."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"I have, in all, the death-stroke given To foes of mine at least eleven; Two more, perhaps, if I remember, May yet be added to this number, I prize myself upon these deeds, My people such examples needs. Bright gold itself they would despise, Or healing leek-herb underprize, If not still brought before their eyes."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
Most of all I fear the ferret of the keener sort which follows you still even when you dive down your hole. (1) In gnaw no radishes and cabbages and pumpkins, nor feed on green leeks and parsley; for these are food for you who live in the lake.'英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
252-259) And when Leeky saw him fallen forward, but still half alive, he pressed through those who fought in front and hurled a sharp reed at him; but the point of the spear was stayed and did not break his shield. Then noble Rueful, like Ares himself, struck his flawless head-piece made of four pots -- he only among the Frogs showed prowess in the throng. But when he saw the other rush at him, he did not stay to meet the stout- hearted hero but dived down to the depths of the lake.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
But, hey, look, if I get it without the nuts and leeks and stuff...美剧 · 《Friends》