Apple devoured by an elderly relative?

Usage examples of pomegranate.

Then there were citrons and wild pomegranates and a score of other arborescent plants, all testifying to the fertility of this plateau of Central Africa.

I took my niece for a sail in the bay, and after we had enjoyed one of those delicious evenings which I think can be found nowhere else-- sailing on a mirror silvered by the moon, over which float the odours of the jasmine, the orange-blossom, the pomegranates, the aloes, and all the scented flowers which grow along the coasts--we returned to our lodging, and I asked Annette what had become of Marcoline.

Pomegranates overlapped persimmons, peaches and cherries intertwined, a lacy forest of citrus--tangerines, lemons, grapefruits, and oranges--gradually gave way to thick meandering shrubbery, dappled with sweet-skinned kumquats and guavas that Grandsarah made into jelly each fall.

There were extensive plantations of sago and date palms, orange and pomegranate and banana, and various kinds of groundnuts.

A tree with dark-yellowish leaves, taller than most timber trees on Earth, bore at the end of drooping twigs large dark-red fruits--fruits with a rind something like that of a pomegranate, save for the colour and hardness, and about the size of a shaddock or melon.

Almost all the flowers, the herbs, and the fruits, that grow in our European gardens, are of foreign extraction, which, in many cases, is betrayed even by their names: the apple was a native of Italy, and when the Romans had tasted the richer flavor of the apricot, the peach, the pomegranate, the citron, and the orange, they contented themselves with applying to all these new fruits the common denomination of apple, discriminating them from each other by the additional epithet of their country.

There was chicken cooked in pomegranate juice, and lamb cubed and marinated and broiled in a manner called kabab, and a rose-flavored sharbat cold with snow, and a billowy, trembling confection like a fluffed-up nougat, made of fine white flour, cream, honey, daintily flavored with oil of pistachio, and called a balesh.

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.

They bring you the news and a punnet of pomegranates - then half kill your slaves, demolish your garden, and batter any visitors?

This childish quarreling among my people must end or Quar will take advantage of it and devour us one by one as so many seeds in a pomegranate!

A decoction made by boiling two or three ounces of freshly powdered pomegranate bark in a pint of water was used by the ancients, and is now highly recommended as a remedy.

Titus mumbled, joining in the under-the-table scrum to catch tumbling apples, pomegranates and fir cones that cascaded from their table.

Pomegranates jingling like sheep bells, the priest carries the shellful of water to the sacred enclosure.

One ragged boy darted past the spearmen with a half-rotten pomegranate in one hand, but when he saw Areo Hotah in his path, with longaxe at the ready, he let the fruit fall unthrown and beat a quick retreat.

The pomegranates he brought back would be ready tomorrow at the earliest, Veronique declared, and not a minute before.