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  • This blend of Cabernet Sauvignon with a bit of Merlot and Shiraz was another blockbuster, with a full-fruited attack tasting of blackberries and wild cherries, followed by a well-structured, smooth finish of delicate charcoal-scented perfumes.

    Tasting Notes on Five Top-Shelf Israeli Wines William Echikson 2008

  • When she had tried to tell herself that full-fruited passion was worth all else in life, was the one great and real thing worth all the many small shams ... what was it she had felt?

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • Great full-fruited orange-trees peep over the wall before which the table is spread, strange birds fly through the air, while a peacock perches on the edge of the partition and looks down on the sacred repast.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • We spent many of these hours among those early paintings in which Florence is so rich, returning ever and anon, with restless sympathies, to wonder whether these tender blossoms of art had not a vital fragrance and savour more precious than the full-fruited knowledge of the later works.

    The Madonna of the Future Henry James 1879

  • Mothers, all over this broad land, heavy-laden with the puerile details of daily living, fling off your shrouding cares, and lift your worn faces that you may see with a broad outlook how full-fruited is the vineyard in which you are toiling; the thorns are irritating; the glebe is rough; your spirit faints in the heat of the toilsome day.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • The 2003 ($37) was much more aromatic and its tamed tannins gave way to a full-fruited intensity and complexity.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • The complete idea is that the life of the Christian soul here and yonder, away out into the furthest extremities of eternity, and up to the loftiest climax of perfectness, is in essence one, whilst yet the differences between the degree in which its germinal possession here and its full-fruited enjoyment hereafter differ is so great as that, in comparison with the completion that is waiting the Christian soul beyond the grave, all of the same life that is here enjoyed dwindles into nothingness.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868

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