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  • With its own marketing firm and plan, the Jazz apple appears to be poised to take over the apple-eating world.

    January 2009 2009

  • Brian Gibson on The Rules of the Game: "Perhaps the best reason to watch is to watch again - from De Chesnaye (Marcel Dalio), the cavalier hypocrite-king of the master-class, to Christine (Nora Gregor), that apple-eating temptress whom courtiers blame even as they pursue, there's too much to take in at one sitting with this satirical feast."

    GreenCine Daily: Vue Weekly. Monkeys, sharks and turtles. 2007

  • With its own marketing firm and plan, the Jazz apple appears to be poised to take over the apple-eating world.

    All About Apples 2009

  • With its own marketing firm and plan, the Jazz apple appears to be poised to take over the apple-eating world.

    Food and Drink 2009

  • With its own marketing firm and plan, the Jazz apple appears to be poised to take over the apple-eating world.

    All About Apples 2009

  • “It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms.”

    Archive 2006-05-01 ____Maggie 2006

  • “It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms.”

    Grant Wood Visions ____Maggie 2006

  • The kitchen is full of grinning, apple-eating wet-heads.

    Sweetblood Pete Hautman 2003

  • Bethinking me again of ‘the small apple-eating urchin whom we know, ’ I suspect an amiable fallacy in all this: I doubt if when he scales an apple-bearing tree which is neither his own nor his papa’s he does so under impulse of any conscious yearning back to Hierusalem, his happy home, Where trees for evermore bear fruit.

    III. Children’s Reading (I) 1920

  • The boy—in Bagehot’s phrase ‘the small apple-eating urchin whom we know’—has this in common with the fruit for which he congenitally sins, that his very virtues in immaturity are apt, setting the teeth on edge, to be mistaken for vices.

    III. Children’s Reading (I) 1920

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