In learning cookery at school she had her materials supplied to her; this time the carve has probably given her an unripe or overripe fruit which has spoiled the whole.

If eaten in excess, especially in an unripe or an overripe state, fruits may occasion a disturbance of the stomach and bowels, often of a severe form.

She was made oflet me seeof skim milk and baked custard (the watery kind) and rice flour and gelatine, with a very little piece of overripe banana,not enough to flavor, just enough to sicken.

Beyond we could see the fields, where the crops, already overripe, must surely waste for lack of men and teams to harvest them; and on the edge of one field we marked where the three peasants dug the grave for the rotting horse, striving to get it underground before it set up a plague.

Most of the grass had been mowed and carried into the barn, but there was one small field still dotted over with cocks of overripe hay.

There was something overripe about it.

We visited old palaces and new, inhabited and abandoned, and over all lay the same fine dust of oblivion, like the silvery mould on an overripe fruit.

In a few days the Farmer came by again, and saw that the grain was overripe and falling out of the ears upon the ground.

Overripe words.

How many are the rich, melancholy afternoons of late October or early November, golden afternoons that occur year after year, when one feels one's thoughts parting from the mind easily and plentifully without urging, as overripe fruit falling at last since no one has grasped it before.

When it becomes overripe, it drops to the ground, and, even then, it is considered royal property, and is taken to the palace for the King's table.

Their skulls squashed like overripe oranges.

She was a woman of forty-five, still graceful and fine-looking, but bearing few traces of earlier beauty, probably better to behold, in her overripe maturity, than in the unfolding of her less attractive time of bud and blossom.