My beloved and I are riper in Hymen's lore by not less, I ween, than one fortnight.

Yet was ever any country riper for misrule than ours?

Before she had left the schoolroom Capello's daughter was, by common consent, the fairest girl in her native city, with a beauty riper than her years.

"She bid me tell you thatthe peaches are riper to-night than ever they were.