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For though you've brought tripe, bread and fruit ripe,
bard Diary Entry bard 2001
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And though she brought tripe, bread and fruit ripe,
bard Diary Entry bard 2001
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And you've supped on sweet potatoes and a 'possum frosted ripe,
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
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QUOTATION: And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
Quotations 1919
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It 's as sweet as are the orchards when the fruit is hanging ripe,
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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In this old-fashioned girl, who in years scarcely ripe,
Three Women Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1887
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In that new church for which the world's near ripe,
Aurora Leigh 1864
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Great quantities of a kind of berry resembling a Current except double the Sise and Grows on a bush like a Privey, and the Size of a Damsen deliciously flavoured & makes delitefull Tarts, this froot is now ripe,
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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The third was the next feast after it, when the corn was eared and ripe,
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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With many of these larger companies vastly reducing their research and development budgets, especially when it comes to pharmaceuticals, the market for acquiring technology is ripe,
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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