Careful Words

lemon (n.)

  I 'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): She Stoops to Conquer. Act i.

  My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.

Sydney Smith (1769-1845): Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,

Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,

Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,

And the groves of laurel and myrtle and rose?

Goethe (1749-1832): Wilhelm Meister. Book iii. Chap. i.