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And I wondered, were those future watchers of apple-gathering farther from me than I, watching sheep-shearing, from the postman?
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In the silence of this night after the apple-gathering, Cadfael lay awake and thought seriously, not about Hugh Beringar, but about Brother Meriet, who had recoiled with desperate revulsion from the image of a stabbed man lying dead in the grass.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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In the silence of this night after the apple-gathering, Cadfael lay awake and thought seriously, not about Hugh Beringar, but about Brother Meriet, who had recoiled with desperate revulsion from the image of a stabbed man lying dead in the grass.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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The night before the apple-gathering, aunt Hannah found her seated by
The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens
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He now left the apple-gathering to his men, and offered to show us whatever was interesting about the colony: as to the life-insurance project, he said he would take some more convenient opportunity to speak with Mr. Körner about it.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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And I wondered, were those future watchers of apple-gathering farther from me than I, watching sheep-shearing, from the postman?
Inn of Tranquillity John Galsworthy 1900
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And I wondered, were those future watchers of apple-gathering farther from me than I, watching sheep-shearing, from the postman?
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900
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And I wondered, were those future watchers of apple-gathering farther from me than I, watching sheep-shearing, from the postman?
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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"A great deal – these last three years; doing a hand's turn, as best I could, in hop-picking, apple-gathering, harvesting; only this summer I had typhus fever, and could not work."
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Vintaging needs no praises, nor does apple-gathering; even when the apples are for cider, they are never acrid enough to baffle a child's tooth.
The Children Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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