summer-ripened

Updated: May 21, 2025

In the fields and the truck patches the farming folks women and old men usually, with here and there children bestirred themselves to get the moldered and mildewed remnants of their summer-ripened crops under cover before the hard frost came.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front