grapes

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grapes

(ɡreɪps)

(Veterinary Science) (functioning as singular) vet science archaic an abnormal growth, resembling a bunch of grapes, on the fetlock of a horse

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In this part I found different fruits, and particularly I found melons upon the ground, in great abundance, and grapes upon the trees.

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and in five minutes we had a score of bunches of large, white, delicious grapes, and were reaching down for more when a dark shape rose mysteriously up out of the shadows beside us and said "Ho

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A VINE was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes.

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Baskets, troughs, and tubs of grapes stood in the dim village doorways, stopped the steep and narrow village streets, and had been carrying all day along the roads and lanes.

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The grapes were no other than gold coins which tinkled merrily as they swayed in the wind.

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About the hour of noontide, however, when the sun stood exactly over Zarathustra's head, he passed an old, bent and gnarled tree, which was encircled round by the ardent love of a vine, and hidden from itself; from this there hung yellow grapes in abundance, confronting the wanderer.

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For certainly grapes (as the Scripture saith) will not be gathered of thorns or thistles; either can justice yield her fruit with sweetness, amongst the briars and brambles of catching and polling clerks, and ministers.

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In the first place, the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous things comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and which no single man can possibly lift --this vast bunch of grapes was swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the strongest point anywhere above a ship's deck.

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He began gathering the grape-leaves which screened the sun from the grapes, and won the heart of the gardener.

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MY DEAREST LITTLE BARBARA,--I am sending you a few grapes, which are good for a convalescent person, and strongly recommended by doctors for the allayment of fever.

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He visits the sins of the fathers upon the children; and the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge

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Now the Cyclopes neither plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley, and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them.