ripening

• The squash were ripening, and the corn, and the beans inside that little thorn wall. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• If the land were occupied by shops or by dwellings, the municipality at least would secure the rates upon them in aid of the general fund; but the land may be unoccupied, undeveloped, it may be what is called "ripening"--ripening at the expense of the whole city, of the whole country--for the unearned increment of its owner. —  Liberalism and the Social Problem
• Take the case to which I have already referred, of the man who keeps a large plot in or near a growing town idle for years, while it is "ripening"--that is to say, while it is rising in price through the exertions of the surrounding community and the need of that community for more room to live. —  Liberalism and the Social Problem
• We need it for our ripening, as the flowers and fruit need wind and rain And there are things in life," he returned, quickly, "that no immature creature can see. —  The Wild Olive
• However, as the ripening is in reality a decomposition process, the meat is said to become "high" if it is allowed to hang too long PURCHASE AND CARE OF MEAT 16. —  Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish

Word Family