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  • Salutations to Lord Ganesha who has an elephant head, who is attended by the band of his followers, who eats his favorite wood-apple and rose-apple fruits, who is the son of Goddess Uma, who is the cause of destruction of all sorrow.

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  • Once at Efrain's house, they unwrapped four bars and sat on the bench under the rose-apple to enjoy them.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Sulema handed him a glass of sweet dark coffee and Catalino settled down on the bench under the rose-apple tree.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Sulema stepped out of the forest with a clay jug of rose-apple juice she'd had cooling in the spring.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Once at Efrain's house, they unwrapped four bars and sat on the bench under the rose-apple to enjoy them.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Sulema stepped out of the forest with a clay jug of rose-apple juice she'd had cooling in the spring.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Sulema handed him a glass of sweet dark coffee and Catalino settled down on the bench under the rose-apple tree.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • When Gotama had reached the state of perfect equilibrium that he had glimpsed as a child under the rose-apple tree, when his facul­ties were concentrated and his egotism under control, he was, he believed, ready to sit in the

    Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001

  • If he was to reproduce the calm content that had modulated so easily into the first jhana under the rose-apple tree, it was important to find a congenial spot for his meditation.

    Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001

  • As he reflected on the coolness of the rose-apple tree, he imagined, in his weakened state, the relief of being convalescent (nibbuta), after a lifetime of fever.

    Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001

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