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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.”

    September 2006

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

    Newsweek: Driving to The Funeral

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “(Hysterical preaching only increases the forbidden-fruit appeal, while frenzied law enforcement only increases the prices, thus boosting the profits of drug dealers and the government authorities they bribe.)”

    Columnist: Keith Groller

  • “Pediatricians should be aware of this forbidden-fruit effect," the researchers caution,”

    GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features

  • “He rejects the notion that parents try to seal off their child from all media, arguing such a tactic can lead to forbidden-fruit bingeing the first time the child gets to call the shots.”

    Boston.com Top Stories

  • “It makes a whole lot more sense than prohibition, which only ever seems to cause the forbidden-fruit effect.”

    Gongol.com

  • “Tara had been way into the forbidden-fruit angle of Angelo, but I wasn’t going to let her abandon him as a friend.”

    Simon & Schuster: She’s a Witch Girl

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