ripeness

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Had it been spared to me, how slowly could I have taught it! and in the full Ripeness of its Age, what had it been, when compared with what it now is!

From Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old by Doddridge, Philip

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all: come on.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)

Or oboe that the Summer Noontide plays,   Sitting with Ripeness 'neath the orchard tree, Trying repeatedly the same shrill phrase,   Until the musky peach with weariness   Drops, and the hum of murmuring bees grows less?

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all:—come on.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

Take Apricots of the largest kind, When they begin to turn to Ripeness, pare them and discharge them from the Stones.

From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Bradley, Richard