I climbed that northern hill, and medlars sought; The spring nigh o'er, to ripeness they were brought.

I wonder if there is any answering ripeness in the lives of the men who live beneath them.

It came up to her knees, rich, thick, soft, and redolent of blossom and ripeness.

For his brutal treatment of her Gloria fully meant that in the ripeness of time he should pay to the uttermost.

The revolution in Russia, the setting up of a republic in China, demonstrating the ripeness of the East for free institutions, the entry of the American republics into world politicsthese things slam the door on any idea of working back to the old nineteenth-century system.

'Tis by the luscious fruit We know the tree, and glory in its ripeness!

The dates were very fine, though in no very great abundance, the superior state of ripeness being attributed to there only being a single day of rain during the past year in the Jereed.

and where shall we dispose of them, until they come to a holy ripeness?

But when he had come to the ripeness of golden-crowned sweet youth, he went down into the middle of Alpheos and called on wide-ruling Poseidon his grandsire, and on the guardian of god-built Delos, the bearer of the bow, praying that honour might be upon his head for the rearing of a people; and he stood beneath the heavens, and it was night.

His faithful and loving friend, James D. Reid, in the Journal of the Telegraph, of which he was editor, paid tribute to his memory in the following touching words: "In the ripeness and mellow sunshine of the end of an honored and protracted life Professor Morse, the father of the American Telegraph system, our own beloved friend and father, has gone to his rest.

June has the full beauty of youth; October has the splendor of ripeness.

She had attained the ripeness of womanhood and very nearly animal perfection.

It is not so much the specific evidences of cultivation, though those, of course, are plentifully present, but a general air of ripeness and order.

The nature of European men has its roots intertwined with the past, and can only be developed by allowing those roots to remain undisturbed while the process of development is going on, until that perfect ripeness of the seed which carries with it a life independent of the root....

'Besides its great importance as a fruit-producer, it has a special beauty of its own when the clusters of dates are hanging in golden ripeness under its coronal of dark-green leaves.

Ripeness is all.

Ripeness is all.

Far as the eye can see, the rolling plains and slopes present various tints of yellowwheat in different stages of ripeness, or of different kinds; oats and barleytill the hedges and woods of the vale conceal the farther landscape on the one hand and the ridge of the hills upon the other.

The only way to pass from this condition of "bitterness" to ripeness, from this false imagination to the true one, is the way of death.

Of this army, Find, son of Cumal, was the most renowned leadera warrior and a poet, who embodied in himself the very genius of the time, its fresh naturalness, its ripeness, its imagination.

We have seen the strong life of the prime bringing forth the virtues of war and peace; we have seen valor and beauty and wisdom come to perfect ripeness in the old pagan world.

There is scarcely a rose in all their cheeks, and a full red-ripeness of the lips would hardly be in keeping; but there is plenty of life in their eyes, which glance out between the curtains of their long lashes with a merry dancing that keeps time to the prattle of tongues.

ANTISTROPHE IV Steadfast, ne'er thrown in fight, The deed in brow of Zeus to ripeness brought; For wrapt in shadowy night, Tangled, unscanned by mortal sight, Extend the pathways of his secret thought.

Faraday was still active, and in the full ripeness of his fame.

I have seen an individual feast on the eau sucre of an European pine, that cost a guinea, while his palate would have refused the same fruit, with its delicious compound of acid and sweet, mellowed to ripeness under a burning sun, merely because he could have it for nothing.