The culms of both, not to mention their pretty flowers, reflect a purple tinge, and help to declare the ripeness of the year.

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

'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.

His tone unconsciously patronized Cissie's prettiness with the patronage of the male for the less significant thing, as though her ripeness for love and passion and children were, after all, not comparable with what he, a male, could do in the way of significantly molding life.

They reached the old orchard, and ran about among the trees picking up applesnow the little soft yellow crab applesthen the huge, round, ruddy pippinsnext the golden-coat bell apples, oblong and mellow, which had dropped from pure ripeness from the autumn boughs.

And in his opinion "it comes to this, that the question of casuistry cannot be solved by general and abstract directions, but must be solved in an individual, personal way, especially according to the stage of moral and religious development and ripeness on which the person in question is found.