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The physical perfection of the apple has no impact on the taste, and while supermarkets have trained us to expect homogeneous and unblemished fruit, this is not how they grow, especially if unpruned, unthinned and unsprayed, as many family apple trees will be.
Gardens: Apple glut Naomi Slade 2010
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And with his dark, unthinned hair and large, brilliant eyes, he looked still younger.
The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955
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It lay between him and what he called the "first heavy growth;" that is, the primeval forest, unthinned by axe of man, which at certain points clothes the foot of
Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook
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Seedlings from the thinned and unthinned plots averaged 0.62 cm. and
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For those dead and senseless shapes restored the original number of the army so well, that the mass might have been unthinned by the slaughter of yesterday.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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They stood in the midst of an ancient wilderness, rank and compacted with the growth of a thousand years, unthinned and unreclaimed by a single stroke of the woodman's axe.
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Various 1905
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The vineyards lie unkempt, the vines themselves unthinned, up to the edge of the forest.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Blue veins showed through the clear white skin, and the long, silky, silvery hair still flowed in unthinned waves round his massive head, bald only on the crown.
A Thorny Path — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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Blue veins showed through the clear white skin, and the long, silky, silvery hair still flowed in unthinned waves round his massive head, bald only on the crown.
A Thorny Path — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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Blue veins showed through the clear white skin, and the long, silky, silvery hair still flowed in unthinned waves round his massive head, bald only on the crown.
A Thorny Path — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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