Then we could let Durnik put his incendiary impulses to a better use than burning turnip patches.

That business about the Glory in the turnip patch, but that is all he told us.

At home, in my turnip patch and in that white house fronting on a sedate green street, sedate despite the devil down the block, I knew my mind.

Yet Taran guessed that a corner of Coll's heart was distant, busily and happily occupied with his turnip patch.

ALTON BROWN, the host of "Iron Chef America," fell into the turnip patch just before the show began taping several scenes outside the White House in late October.

Handing me the eggs, she seized Bobby, who had come out of the house after us, by the sleeve and towed him off toward the turnip patch.

Off the battlefield, the byplay of the soldiers seems strained now --and more American than German, particularly when Slim Summerville, of all people, welcomes a batch of recruits with "Here they are, fresh from the turnip patch."

But I did not expect to find them here till I rode along this hedge and looked into Grinsley's turnip patch.

As Aillas watched, three small pigs escaped from the sty and trotted briskly into the turnip patch.

I am also aware of Clarke's involvement in Australia's 47 run innings in South Africa and his abject performance in the second test against New Zealand, evening allowing for the fact that the wicket may have had some features in common with a turnip patch.