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"Unripe" Quotes from Famous Books

... foods can be taken raw with advantage. Most starchy foods, such as cereals and potatoes and unripe fruit must, of course, be cooked in order to be made fit ...

— How to Live - Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science • Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk

... kine Went o'er the Infant; all His wondrous works Or words from mount, or field, or anchored boat, And Christendom upreared for weal of men And Angel-wonder. Daily preached the monks And daily built their convent. Wildly sweet The season, prime of unripe spring, when March Distils from cup half gelid yet some drops Of finer relish than the hand of May Pours from her full-brimmed beaker. Frost, though gone, Had left its glad vibration on the air; Laughed the ...

— The Legends of Saint Patrick • Aubrey de Vere

... my head-gardener the strictest orders to watch the trees carefully, for the magician had warned my father that if one unripe fruit were plucked from the tree, all the rest would become rotten at once. When it was quite ripe the fruit would become ...

— The Yellow Fairy Book • Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang

... advanced, at the same time hearing persons approaching behind her. She bared her poor curst arm; and Davies, uncovering the face of the corpse, took Gertrude's hand, and held it so that her arm lay across the dead man's neck, upon a line the colour of an unripe ...

— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy

... him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

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