Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stone or pit of a cherry. A child's play, in which cherry-stones are thrown into a small hole.
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Examples
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It was four and then he remembered the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into Bludenz, that time to buy presents, and the cherry-pit taste of good kirsch, the fast-slipping rush of running powder-snow on crust, singing Hi!
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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It was four and then he remembered the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into Bludenz, that time to buy presents, and the cherry-pit taste of good kirsch, the fast-slipping rush of running powder-snow on crust, singing Hi!
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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It was four and then he remembered the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into Bludenz, that time to buy presents, and the cherry-pit taste of good kirsch, the fast-slipping rush of running powder-snow on crust, singing Hi!
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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It was four and then he remembered the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into Bludenz, that time to buy presents, and the cherry-pit taste of good kirsch, the fast-slipping rush of running powder-snow on crust, singing Hi!
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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Far ahead, the great round half-dome of the Shed looked like a cherry-pit on the horizon.
Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935
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QUOTATION: T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan.
Quotations 1919
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'T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Gravity, humour the test of, 578. out of his bed at midnight, 59. to play at cherry-pit, 76.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang him, foul collier!
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In the New World have I been, man — in the Eldorado, where urchins play at cherry-pit with diamonds, and country wenches thread rubies for necklaces, instead of rowan-tree berries; where the pantiles are made of pure gold, and the paving-stones of virgin silver.”
Kenilworth 2004
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