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Usage examples of cherry.

Powick, near a cherry orchard, in which, nine years previously, the ambuscade was successfully laid for Lord Say.

You have arrived from there since Harry destroyed the Cherry Lane gate.

We considered insisting that I did return before your men arrived at Cherry Lane but concluded that the truth is better.

All the time, he fed her, and himself, bits of cold smoked venison, hard cheese, oat cake, and bannock, even tart cherries, all washed down with cold ale.

After all, what kind of self-respecting billionaire would run out of maraschino cherries?

And though it invariably meant warmer days and planting and the blossoming of cherry and plum and apple, this year it was not being celebrated.

Plum and cherry trees flowered on the banks and where there would normally be gay parties out under the boughs to observe the blossoming, frightened refugees streamed south instead.

Then I took a drop of every poisonhemlock, wolfsbane, mandragora, cherry seed pulp, brews of berries and bushes and roots, the Death Cap mushroom and the white-spotted red mushroomyes, Gordius, I took them all!

I could even wonder what rabbits had to do with anything, Merv jumped from his chair as if Cherry had rammed an electric cattle prod to his man-bits, and ran past us out of the stinking office.

Like mushy cherries, they may soften after harvest, but more from decay than from ripening.

There were garnet-red cherries, peridot grapes, apples like great rubies streaked with gold and amber, amethyst blueberries, strawberries glowing like pink charcoal, yellow pears of topaz, lucid gooseberries of translucent green quartz, quinces still on their twigs, melons, pomegranates, polished damsons, figs like blushing drops of jade.

Already the first astringent apples, cherries, peaches, pears, yellow and red plums were ready to be gathered.

Picked up a cherry, found it a little too large to swallow, and flew back into the pinyon with it.

The twins had brought me a little basket of pitless black cherries, a rare luxury that had to be imported from Yakima-Two.

In winter it was less so, but now, with spring but days away, the yellow and purple polyanthuses were flowering, and the cherry trees were thick with blossom, gossamer thin petals of faded coral.