pommier

Seated gravely in the mud and noise of the _cour_, under the pitiful and scraggly _pommier_ ... behind the eyes lived a world of complete strangeness and silence.

The Enormous Room 1928

And as I thought this I entered the orchard and sat down on my own seat, a little bench that -- now many years ago -- the bon papa had placed for me with his own hands beside my pommier.

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

And the first words I could say were 'Mi pommier à Malie.'

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

The tree next to my pommier -- the one but a yard or two from my bench -- stood black and charred as if the burning hand of a great giant had grasped it; already some of its branches strewed the ground.

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

To the last, the bon papa hoped that 'le pommier de la petite' would do well, though nothing else did, but it was not so.

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

And my pommier had not altogether escaped; one branch had been struck -- the very branch on the sunny side from which bon papa had picked the apple, as he afterwards showed me!

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

is feminine, and the word for "apple tree" pommier, m. is masculine..

Sense & Sensuality 2009

Monsieur -- still, the old apple-tree at the paternal house at Stéfanos, is called 'le pommier de la petite.'"

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

"'Here, my child,' he said, holding out to me an apple; 'this is the first of this season's on thy pommier.

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

The tree shall be called 'le pommier de la petite.'"

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880