1 We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man and will ripen our food.
2 And the ploughing of the further land to go on without a break so as to let it ripen lying fallow.
3 The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up.
4 Yet I am certain that he does not wish their intimacy to ripen into love, and I have several times observed that he has taken pains to prevent them from being tete-a-tete.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson 5 They reached the building, ornamented with magnificent fruits, which ripen at the beginning of July in the artificial temperature which takes the place of the sun, so frequently absent in our climate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt. 6 A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet.
7 But those few moonlight nights alone with Charles had not touched her emotions or ripened her to maturity.
8 It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred.
9 But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
10 The wind made their clearings; the sun and rain ripened their fruits; and the snows came to tell them to be thankful.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 11 A magnificent peach was hanging against an adjoining wall, ripened by the same artificial heat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 71. Bread and Salt. 12 Lo, discord is ripened at thy desire into baleful war: tell them now to mix in amity and join alliance.
13 The fruits never rot nor fail all the year round, neither winter nor summer, for the air is so soft that a new crop ripens before the old has dropped.
14 The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.
15 Instead of ripening its firm, down-running curves, her body was flattening and going a little harsh.