His disciples also failed to establish his doctrine in China, because it served the interests of an individual despot against those of the gentry as a class, and the middle class, which might have formed a counterweight against them, was not yet politically ripe for the seizure of the opportunity here offered to it.

Kurt found his nearest neighbor, Olsen, cutting a thin, scarcely ripe barley.

He was a man of moderate height, a little shortened in appearance by his equatorial dimensions, and a face that had been mellow from the first was now climacterically ripe.

" "Well, he left this for her with his compliments, and this, and this," called Dick, rummaging in his pockets, and tossing up an apple, and then a hickory nut, and last a good-sized and dangerously ripe tomato.

* I am no pacificist, but I am bound to admit that the moment seems distinctly ripe for a cessation in one minor War product, namely the trench-book.

Her heart was doubly ripe for a little mothering, and Frau Bargiel seized the moment.

The bottles of yeast require very careful opening, as it is generally exceedingly ripe.

But close by, and happily nearly ripe, we found a fair substitute for pine-apples in the fruit of the Karatas.

Let us the value of nobly ripe age, point out to the young man,

When the republic came, the people were reasonably ripe for it.

the author being "a remarkably ripe, full man" (1819-1857).

If an apple is found to grow mellow and seemingly ripe much before its fellows on the same bough, you will probably discover, upon close inspection, that there is a worm in it.

The homeliest vegetables, too, if sound, ripe, and wholesome, are infinitely to be preferred to the rare expensive sorts forced out of season or gathered barely ripe and conveyed long distances to whet jaded palates.

"I especially warn you against great inventions of your own; for then you would try to give a view of things, and for that purpose youth is seldom ripe.

Sparrows and red-birds flitted through the bushes, and dewberries grew ripe beneath.