ripening

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• The ideal tomme-ripening cave sat below the house that her family had just sold.

• The 2017 growing season was exceptional, being a warm year with a good amount of rainfall to fully ripen the fruit and maintain a nice acidity.

• If you decide to include the pears to serve as a dessert later, look for ones that are just ripening — not hard and woody, not soft.

• This was the third hot, dry vintage in a row, explains Master of Wine Jasper Morris, author of Inside Burgundy, who describes a July with brutal heat waves that pushed ripening.

• I remember ripening coffee beans hanging down the banks, and masses of wild orchids.

• The plant is strong and vigorous, ripening in a few weeks, and when properly cultivated (p. 385) attaining a very large size.

• Even the first blossoms of your youth paid us all that could be expected from a ripening manhood.

• Trellises, burdened with ripening grapes, were the boundary line between the garden and the orchard.

• Under the corners of her eyes above the rounded cheeks a pink stain lay like the first ripening flush on a wild strawberry.

• Nothing but brabblings, scufflings, objurgations; a great outbreak ripening itself.