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How tumultuously her heart beat with apprehension and fear! and the old gentleman's first words were by no means calculated to allay her alarm. "My charming little girl," said he, raising her hand to his lips "how beautiful you look! A fruit girl! by heavens, you are fit to be a duchess!
=Cracking of the fruit.= The formation of cracks or fissures in the nearly mature fruit is due to variations in the water supply and other conditions affecting growth at this stage.
It was not indeed to be supposed, that either the monarchs or the subjects would willingly and cheerfully submit to have all their own trade in the very heart of their own country conducted, and the fruit of it reaped by foreign merchants.
The sun was shining through the branches of the melocotoon tree beneath which she was standing. It seemed to him that the rich bloom of the ripening fruit by some subtle process of nature was being transmuted to her face. He recalled the description of the pure-hearted damsel that welcomed the Pilgrim of Bunyan's allegory to the beautiful palace in the land of Beulah.
We shall take our walk in that direction without any special object, we shall turn in apparently by chance; fruit, cakes, and cream are waiting for us.
In unimpeded talk with sincere persons of what quality soever there, rather than in shadowy converse with even the best books the flower, the fruit, of mind was still in life-giving contact with its root. With books, as indeed with persons, his intercourse was apt to be desultory.
There is nothing like getting accustomed to it. Of course the men will cook the principal meals, but we can prepare little meals between times. It is astonishing how many times you can eat during the day when you are in the open air." In half an hour the meal, consisting of the fish, light dough-cakes, which Mysa had with much amusement prepared under Ruth's directions, and fruit, was ready.
It is curious to reflect that, in the second year of the campaign, this great country of future agricultural development which is traversed by immense volumes of water and whose atmosphere resembles that of a hot-house, could not produce sufficient fruit or vegetables to supply the relatively small military forces it contained.
Will we give up our most sacred recollections for the sake of a large and gorgeous royal palace?" "No, we will not," said the king, pressing his wife closer to his heart. "No, we will remain in this house of ours we will not leave it. Our happiness has grown and prospered here, and here it shall bloom and bear fruit.
The air is peopled with traditions far back from the present, but with which the grave, imposing, characteristic landscape seems still to sympathize. In two days we emerged from the brown chrysalis of a New-Hampshire spring into the exultant richness of the winged butterfly, into white, fragrant fields of blossoming fruit, and the odor of tree-lilacs.
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