Drupe

Usage examples of peach.

These juices, together with those of the pear, the peach, the plum, and other such fruits, if taken without adding cane sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach rather than provoke it: they become converted chemically into alkaline carbonates, which correct sour fermentation.

Who would not give back the luscious pear and peach to their native acritude, rather than subject the highest forms of vegetable life to such irreverence?

The banks were lined with flowering peach, and chiching trees with violet flowers growing directly from the trunks and branches, and behind them was a shady bamboo grove, and then the pear trees, and then a thousand apricot trees that were flaming with a million scarlet blossoms.

When bruised the plant, and especially its root, smells like peach kernels, or prussic acid.

Very interesting, no doubt, Master Byles Gridley would have said, but had no more to do with good, hearty, sound life than the history of those very little people to be seen in museums preserved in jars of alcohol, like brandy peaches.

The small dining room at the Hotel Cisterna had stone walls, peach linen tablecloths, and another of the spectacular views that Tuscany gave away for free.

The great barns were off to one side, with the creamery and cheese-house and cooling sheds where cherries and peaches from the orchards were stored.

She ordered their breakfast served in a warm corner of the garden where peach trees in blossom were espaliered against the stone wall.

She spent an aimless morning, exercising the dogs, patiently listening to Franz, explaining in basic Dutch so that she could understand him why the peach trees, espaliered on the old brick wall at the end of the kitchen garden, were being sprayed with Bordeaux mixture to destroy peach leaf curl, and then going to the kitchen to tell Berthe that she would have something on a tray for her lunch and would be out for tea.

There was the peach knit, a long gown of white eyelet, and a skirt and blouse ensemble.

There was a jade pendant which Oliver Fane had brought from China for his wife Lilian, a peach with two leaves, and a little winged creature crawling on it.

I was getting used to, Italian focaccia bread and pate and a mad-sounding French cheese called Terroir, peaches and bananas and Greek yoghurt.

Wrotsleys and their cousin, foreseeing the long foodless drive home, had each quietly pocketed an extra peach, but it was distinctly trying for Dolores and the fat and good-natured Agnes Blaik to be left with one peach between them.

The woods have poisonous spiders with bodies like peaches and fangs like gaboon vipers.

Along each side of the long center aisle there were stalls selling yogurt with fruit topping, kielbasy on a roll with sauerkraut, lobster rolls, submarine sandwiches, French bread, country pate, Greek salad, sweet and sour chicken, baklava, cookies, bagels, oysters, cheese, fresh fruit on a stick, ice cream, cheesecake, barbecued chicken, pizza, doughnuts, cookies, galantine of duck, roast beef sandwiches with chutney on fresh-baked bread, bean sprouts, dried peaches, jumbo cashews and other nuts.