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Updated: June 29, 2025
"One move and you shall be so many prunes," shrilled the angry old man, fixing the people from Oz with his wicked little eyes. The great room was so still you could have heard a pin drop. Even the Doubtful Dromedary had not the heart to doubt the wizard's power, but stood rigid as a statue. The wizard advanced slowly, holding the sealed vase carefully over his head.
I haven't always been as good to you as I ought, but I'm going to make up by being the soldier and the man "me mudder" thinks I am. And when I come back home, all full of prunes and glory, we're going to have the grandest time you ever dreamed of.
The four orphans for whom the old woman's affection represented all human guardianship had come to an end of their prunes.
"But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art, subject to discontinuance without further notice. "I had a friend once, of the entitlement of Paisley Fish, that I imagined was sealed to me for an endless space of time. Side by side for seven years we had mined, ranched, sold patent churns, herded sheep, took photographs and other things, built wire fences, and picked prunes.
Bunny Brown ran out of the storeroom, in his hand a hammer with which he had been opening the box of prunes. Mrs. Golden gave a cry of alarm as she heard the clatter of the boxes falling around Sue. Mr. Flynt joined Bunny in a rush to help the little girl.
When Presley reached Annixter's ranch house, he found young Annixter himself stretched in his hammock behind the mosquito-bar on the front porch, reading "David Copperfield," and gorging himself with dried prunes. Annixter after the two had exchanged greetings complained of terrific colics all the preceding night.
The first meal would consist of, say a poached egg on a piece of toast, and the juice of an orange, with the seeds carefully excluded; the next of some chicken broth with a cracker or two, and the pulp of prunes with the skins removed; the next of some beef chopped up and pounded to a pulp and broiled, together with a bit of mashed potato or some other cooked vegetable; the next of some gruel, with cream and sugar, and some more prunes.
You know you don't want to go back to a dish of prunes and soggy cake. Better stay." "No. Thank you, just the same. I'm going to bunk out in my shanty to-night. I've got a chafing dish there. The prunes were undermining my constitution. Good night!" Devant watched him until the shrubbery hid him.
The grocery man pulled in about half a block of twine, after the dog had run against a fence and broke it, and told the boy he knew perfectly well how the brass padlock came to be in the sausage, but thinking it was safer to have the good will of the boy than the ill will, he offered him a handful of prunes. "No," said the boy, "I have swore off on mouldy prunes. I am no kinder-garden any more.
And to the man upon his left, "Will you kindly pass me the bread?" The man grinned in rare enjoyment, and, since he kept his eyes upon Brayley's glowering face, it was hardly strange that he handed Conniston a plate of stewed prunes instead. "Thank you," Conniston said to him, still ignoring Brayley. "But it was bread I said." "An' I said something!" cut in Brayley, his voice crisp and incisive.
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