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  • On the way I stopped at the historical peach-orchard, known as Sherfy's, where Sickles's Corps was repulsed, after a terrific conflict, on

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

  • One day during the past summer, while my peach-orchard was in full bearing, my foreman, who attends market for me, fell sick.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

  • Also, it was strawberry-time, and cherry-time was near; nor did they overlook the fact that they lived in close proximity to a peach-orchard.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • The entrance to the peach-orchard proved not wide enough for the machine, so they had to get out and walk; and this they found annoying, because the ground was wet and soft.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Therefore, it was with no little surprise, when the party came out of the barn, that William beheld Miss Pratt, not walking at his side, but on the contrary, sitting too cozily with George Crooper upon a fallen tree at the edge of a peach-orchard just beyond the barn-yard.

    Seventeen 1915

  • He went up on the side o 'the mountain whar the chestnut-trees growed twistin', and split rails enough to fence in his peach-orchard.

    With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

  • The unending mesquite with its first spring foliage resembled a limitless peach-orchard sown by some careless and unbelievably prodigal hand.

    Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • The three men went to Chang Fei's farm, and on the morrow met together in his peach-orchard, and sealed their friendship with an oath.

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • Therefore, it was with no little surprise, when the party came out of the barn, that William beheld Miss Pratt, not walking at his side, but on the contrary, sitting too cozily with George Crooper upon a fallen tree at the edge of a peach-orchard just beyond the barn-yard.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • His roomy, old-fashioned house, his pleasant library, his grounds sloping to the lake, his peach-orchard, which at my visit was filled with delicious fruit, and the pleasant paths through the neighboring woods captivated me, and for several years the agricultural profession lingered in my visions as the most attractive of all.

    Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I 1905

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