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  • But what was in it now was not water but the richest wine, red as red-currant jelly, smooth as oil, strong as beef, warming as tea, cool as dew.

    Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951

  • How to brew a sherry cobbler, and to make red-currant jam.

    Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling

  • Peach-trees were leaning over the fence in the southeast corner; a long row of red-currant bushes ran through the middle of the garden; English gooseberry bushes threw out their prickly branches laden with round, woolly fruit at the north end.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

  • He might even, according to Aunt Amy, die of it, but as death at present meant no more to him than a position of importance and a quantity of red-currant jelly and chicken, THAT prospect did not deter him.

    Jeremy Hugh Walpole 1912

  • Fru Kongstrup gave him red-currant wine and cake, and the farmer gave him a two-krone piece.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • Fru Kongstrup gave him red-currant wine and cake, and the farmer gave him a two-krone piece.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • Some allus goes for it, like the bud-pickers to the red-currant bushes, some slips here an 'theer, an' do straightway right 'emselves -- right' emselves again an 'again.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • The Pelican was a farm as well as an inn, and the rosy-faced servant girl carried in cream, fresh butter, and red-currant jam to the coffee-room.

    A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

  • In the kitchen-garden also the hens took their ease, banqueting sparely beneath the straggling black boughs of a red-currant grove.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • As children will, he gave Prospero's island a local habitation in the tangled cliff-garden, tethered Caliban in the tool-shed, and watched the white surf far withdrawn, or listened to its murmur between the lordly boles of the red-currant bushes.

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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