The acquaintance, thus begun, soon ripened into intimacy, by means of walks in the garden, contrived by Fatima, one of his female cousins.

I have oftentimes feasted on the beauty of these noble trees when they were towering in all their winter grandeur, laden with snowone mass of bloom; in summer, too, when the brown, staminate clusters hang thick among the shimmering needles, and the big purple burs are ripening in the mellow light; but it is during cloudless wind-storms that these colossal pines are most impressively beautiful.

The foliage of the saplings is dark bluish-green in color, while the older trees ripen to a warm brownish-yellow tint like Libocedrus.

Pine woods that take two and three seasons to the ripening of cones, roots that lie by in the sand seven years awaiting a growing rain, firs that grow fifty years before flowering,these do not scrape acquaintance.

of all the cones ripened on the Sierra are cut off and handled by the Douglas alone, and of those of the Big Trees perhaps ninety per cent.

Madame Pétavel was as warm-hearted as ever; the professor, her husband, is ripening for heaven.

Puberty is the time of ripening of the specific germ cells.

The carob tree has been designated "St. John's bread," from a tradition that it supplied him with food in the wilderness; and currants, from beginning to ripen at this time, have been nicknamed "berries of St. John."

Grain ripens from one to two months later here, than in Pennsylvania.

I ever did, and believe ever shall, like women best "Just in the noon of lifethose golden days, When the mind ripens as the form decays.

Other villages and farms, while just as well-kept and well-to-do, have, so to say, a something romantic about their prosperity, a bounteous, ruddy, golden-age look about them, as though Nature herself had been the farmer and they had ruddied and ripened out of her own unconscious abundancethe difference between a row of modern box beehives and the old thatched-cottage kind.

The strawberry belongs to temperate and rather cold climates; and no fruit of these latitudes, that ripens without the aid of artificial heat, is at all comparable with it in point of flavour.

It ripens with the years.

After a grove has been destroyed, the ground is at once sown lavishly with all the seeds ripened during its whole life, which seem to have been carefully held in store with reference to such a calamity.

Or, I will rather say: Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young, As angels are, ripening through endless years.

Her old plans she could not give up, the new she would not quite throw from her; but, divided as she was, for the present she put a stop to the work, and gave herself time to think the thing over, and let it ripen by itself.

If we were tempted to say, in one word, what it was in which he chiefly excelled other men, we should say, in wisdomin the union of that virtue, which has ripened under the hardy discipline of principles, with that knowledge which has constantly sifted and refined its old treasures, and as constantly gathered new.

She sees with clearer eye than ours The good of suffering born, The hearts that blossom like her flowers And ripen like her corn.

They perceived, as facts came out in conversation, that there was a growing knowledge and hatred of the Slave Trade, and that the temper of the times was ripening towards its abolition.

The fig ripens near yonder village of Montreux, and, open to the morning sun while it is sheltered by the precipices above, the whole of that shore well deserves its happy reputation.

And just so these beauties that grow and ripen against the city-walls, these young fellows with cheeks like peaches and young girls with cheeks like nectarines, show that the most perfect forms of artificial life can do as much for the human product as garden-culture for strawberries and blackberries.

Thus Fred and his friend went hand in hand together, respected and blessed by all who knew themeach year as it passed cementing closer and closer that undying friendship which had first started into being in the gay season of boyhood, and had bloomed and ripened amid the adventures, dangers, and vicissitudes of the World of Ice.

If intended to be eaten raw, fruit should be well ripened before gathering, and should be perfectly fresh.

Young people are growing up, and there are people whose taste never ripens beyond the enjoyment of Veal.

The seed, which ripens about the time the hemp is pulled, is useful for feeding birds and poultry, and very nourishing. 95.