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Lima
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    Lima beans, too, and collard greens and cabbage, all cooked in pork fat.†  (source)
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    "Better safe than sorry," said Kate, through a mouthful of lima beans.†  (source)
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    But she was turned in Redcliffe's direction now, wiping lima-bean skins off his fingers.†  (source)
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    Her mother would serve it on plates she took out of a wooden china closet: ham, chicken, potatoes, corn, string beans, sliced tomatoes, lima beans, white bread, and hot biscuits with lots of butter-and I couldn't eat any of it.†  (source)
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    But imagine a hundred church ladies, all schooled in the culinary genius of generations, unloading trunkloads of potato salad, homemade pickles, barbecued pork chops, beans (butter, green, pole, lima, pinto, baked, navy and snap), deviled eggs dusted with cayenne pepper, pones of cornbread cooked with cracklin's, fried chicken, squash casserole, a million biscuits, a bathtub-sized vat of banana pudding, pies (lemon, cherry, apple, peach, fig, pecan, chocolate-walnut), cakes (you name it) and enough iced tea and RC Colas to drown a normal man.†  (source)
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    Somebody told me a plane left for Lima this morning.†  (source)
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    I was assigned to work with Lima Company, which was operating a few blocks away from Kilo.†  (source)
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    Lee moved five dried lima beans in patterns on the table—a line, an angle, a circle.†  (source)
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    Lima was identified as a police officer from New Orleans.†  (source)
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    The last Potential disappeared three days ago in Lima.†  (source)
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    Ferula, five years his senior, washed and starched his only two shirts every other day so that he would always look fresh and properly dressed, and reminded him that on their mother's side they were heir to the noblest and most highborn surname of the viceroyalty of Lima.†  (source)
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    Just once, many years ago in Lima—a lovely city—I ventured to stroll on a fine day without such forethought ...and it got me transported.†  (source)
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    He'd stocked three types: pinto, kidney, and lima, though only a single bag of each, and the next time she came in, he made a point of mentioning that they could be found on the bottom shelf in the corner, near the rice.†  (source)
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Now we just call it "Millenium," and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size.  (source)
lima = a type of bean first cultivated in Lima (capital and largest city of Peru & historic capital of the Spanish empire in the New World)
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