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  • Tess replies that they are like “the apples on our stubbard-tree, most of them splendid and sound — a few blighted”.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • They sometimes seem to me like the apples on our stubbard-tree.

    The Teaching of Jesus George Jackson 1904

  • They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • Presently he heard another person approaching, and his brother's shape appeared between the stubbard tree and the hedge.

    The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

  • In the large stubbard-tree at the corner of the garden was erected a pole of larch fir, which the miller had bought with others at a sale of small timber in Damer's Wood one Christmas week.

    The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

  • They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

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