new-pressed

Updated: May 16, 2025

Philippa's admiration of them was like a new-pressed grape-juice after a draught of the ripe vintage. Moreover, Bobby was difficult: the rejected of his English schools was a stiff Ormont at lessons, a wheezy Benlew in the playground: exactly the reverse of what should have been.

George Meredith - Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete

THE dairy was certainly worth looking at: it was a scene to sicken for with a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets such coolness, such purity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of wooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water; such soft colouring of red earthenware and creamy surfaces, brown wood and polished tin, grey limestone and rich orange-red rust on the iron weights and hooks and hinges.

George Eliot - Adam Bede