peach's

And that for me is the point of the peach and why I hold its qualities above those of the nectarine – the feel of the peach's soft fuzz on lips, the way the skin puckers as I bite, a teasing prelude to the sweet flesh that will follow.

Tender delights Nigel Slater 2010

A peach's first choice is brandy -- it must be real, therefore costly.

Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

Celine, is it for the peach's own sake that God created that colour so fair to the eye, that velvety covering so soft to the touch?

The Story of a Soul Lisieux, St Therese of 1912

Celine, is it for the peach's own sake that God created that colour so fair to the eye, that velvety covering so soft to the touch?

Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux 1873-1897 1912

Her skin was a glossy brown, softened with a peach's bloom, warming through deepening shades of rose to lips that were so deeply colored no one noticed how firmly they could come together, how their curving, crimson edges could shut tight, straighten out, and become a line of forceful suggestions, of doggedness, maybe -- who knows?

The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900

Thick yellow curls, bright blue eyes, and cheeks that would have shamed the peach's bloom -- and a nearly completed row of tiny white teeth -- such was the Rousseau applicant at first glance.

Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Her yellow curls peeped out from beneath the lace of the hood, and her round little cheeks were the colour of the peach's bloom.

A Fool and His Money George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Mrs. Rooke was a vivacious little dark woman, with a cheek like a peach's rosy side.

Mary Gray Katharine Tynan 1896

Tell me, Céline, is it for the peach's own sake that God created that colour so fair to the eye, that velvety covering so soft to the touch?

The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse de Lisieux Th��r��se 1885

The mechanical action of the husk in containing and scattering the seeds, they indeed often notice and insist on; but they do not tell {221} us of what, if any, nutritious or fostering use the rind is to a chestnut, or an orange's pulp to its pips, or a peach's juice to its stone.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859