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forbidden-fruit

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  • From then on, Robin's was known as a kind of forbidden-fruit stand, a place where you could find savory items others lacked, and where people stood up for art and language.

    More and Less 2006

  • From then on, Robin's was known as a kind of forbidden-fruit stand, a place where you could find savory items others lacked, and where people stood up for art and language.

    September 2006 2006

  • And there has been a pronounced negative effect on college campuses, where administrators describe a forbidden-fruit climate that encourages binge drinking.

    Driving to The Funeral 2007

  • In the near distance were clumps of fruit trees, of hedges of lime and flowering shrubs, rows of orange trees, mangoes, red and purple, forbidden-fruit and grapefruit, the large scarlet fruit of the acqui, the avocado-pear, the feathering bamboo, and the

    No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • There is the _chadèque_, which grows here to fully three feet in circumference, and has a sweet pink pulp; and there is the "forbidden-fruit" (_fouitt-défendu_), a sort of cross between the orange and the chadèque, and superior to both.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • As the forbidden-fruit hangs too high for you, you degrade your art, and make to yourself an image that resembles her according to your taste.

    Homo Sum — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

  • As the forbidden-fruit hangs too high for you, you degrade your art, and make to yourself an image that resembles her according to your taste.

    Homo Sum — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

  • As the forbidden-fruit hangs too high for you, you degrade your art, and make to yourself an image that resembles her according to your taste.

    Homo Sum — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

  • As the forbidden-fruit hangs too high for you, you degrade your art, and make to yourself an image that resembles her according to your taste.

    Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • As the forbidden-fruit hangs too high for you, you degrade your art, and make to yourself an image that resembles her according to your taste.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

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