A magnificent peach was hanging against an adjoining wall,
ripened by the same artificial heat.
Moreover, I had a secret conviction that the woman I was now in search of would prefer one who had had some experience at being a man, who would bring her not the green plums of his love, but the cunningly
ripened nectarines, a man to whom love was something of an art as well as an inspiration.
Immoral, licentious, anarchical, unscientific -- call them by what names you will -- yet, from an aesthetic point of view, those ancient days of the Colour Revolt were the glorious childhood of Art in Flatland -- a childhood, alas, that never
ripened into manhood, nor even reached the blossom of youth.
You may go and kill whom you please, but I don't want to do so anymore!" By evening this thought had
ripened in every soul.
The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond possibility of sincere radicalism, and unless he can resist the sun, he must be conservative the remainder of his days.
a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!' insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.
Even the crops of barley and wheat [9] are often brought into the houses to be dried and
ripened. At Valdivia (in the same latitude of
But for all that, their acquaintance had not
ripened into friendship.
Capitalism was adjudged by the sociologists of the time to be the culmination of bourgeois rule, the
ripened fruit of the bourgeois revolution.
The hilltop, the cool air of the night, the company of the great monuments, the sight of the city under his feet, with its hills and valleys and crossing files of lamps, drew him by all he had of the poetic, and he turned that way; and by that quite innocent deflection,
ripened the crop of his venial errors for the sickle of destiny.
Dr Juliette Ango, a public health expert, said that artificially
ripened fruits may contain high acidic content which may be bad for the gastrointestinal system.
| USE UP THE GREEN ONES YOU can still use green tomatoes that haven't
ripened. Try making green tomato chutney, salsa verde or add them to curries.
ripened - of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); "mature well-aged cheeses"