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Examples
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Lugh, let sweet mellow days be their fill, and all the ripe beauty of your season leaven the approach of winter with cider-apple and harvest and plenty and love.
Lugh Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2009
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She wasn't able to admit, even to herself, that when she had ordered it long ago, in her harshest voice, she was enthusiastic about the felling of her eighty-four cider-apple trees.
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The valleys had to be innovative these days to survive, as far away from the highway as they were, and without the cider-apple trees.
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When she ordered the felling of the cider-apple trees, her mother cried.
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Ségala chestnuts form an important element in the food of the peasants, and the walnut, cider-apple, mulberry (for the silk-worm industry), and plum are among the fruit trees grown.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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"Hard and sour as a green cider-apple," he thought to himself.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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Vicar, excellent man, repines deeply -- though I once caught the faint sound of a sigh as we stood together and conned his cider-apple trees, un-garnered, shedding their fruit at random in the long grasses.
News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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We halted by some pasture bars in the shade of an old cider-apple tree, and I threw the bridle over a leaning post in the unsteady fence; and there the horse and I waited, and looked at each other reproachfully.
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Then his eyes opened in surprise, for this was no sour cider-apple, but far and away the best apple he had ever tasted.
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"Hard and sour as a green cider-apple," he thought to himself.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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