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  • First designed in the 1950s by Ingeborg Lundin, the enormous, truly apple-like vase is one of Scandinavian modernism's best-known pieces.

    From Classic Stemware to Avant-Garde Art, Sweden Offers a New Way to Look at Glass Design 2009

  • Roman chamomile has an intensely sweet, fruity and apple-like scent, and at the same time it is also slightly herbaceous.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • As for me, one thing I miss in Japan is a real pear-shaped and pear-flavoured pear, not the watery apple-like thing that is all too common.

    Eating out: part 2 of 2 2007

  • Roman chamomile has an intensely sweet, fruity and apple-like scent, and at the same time it is also slightly herbaceous.

    Flowering Teas Ayala Sender 2009

  • Summary: the surprising tartness of this beer makes adding a lemon-wedge completely superfluous; taken on its own it's an interesting take on the hefeweizen style, foregoing the banana and cloves for an apple-like tartness; after a long day outside, or sitting out on a patio on hot summer day this beer could really hit the spot.

    What? A Review of A Beer? Who Would Have Guessed? 2008

  • Summary: the surprising tartness of this beer makes adding a lemon-wedge completely superfluous; taken on its own it's an interesting take on the hefeweizen style, foregoing the banana and cloves for an apple-like tartness; after a long day outside, or sitting out on a patio on hot summer day this beer could really hit the spot.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • It is a slightly greener, more “high-pitched” lily of the valley with a very subtle apple-like undertone.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • All I'm saying is that this commonality is less significant than what divides these two types of work, and I may have been comparing apples to oranges and then declaring the oranges less apple-like.

    Fan Fiction: I've Been Wrong Before Jeremiah McNichols 2006

  • All I'm saying is that this commonality is less significant than what divides these two types of work, and I may have been comparing apples to oranges and then declaring the oranges less apple-like.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006

  • Why the predominance of apple-like objects in the background?

    Archive 2006-09-01 Mac 2006

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