As in medlar trees?. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Doings on the Porch] Reference
A bletted medlar from a drunken, ranting bum. From Wordnik.com. [Still Lives] Reference
Photo of medlar flower by Michiel Thomas on Flickr. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Auntie Joan would have loved the medlar experiments. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
Photo of medlar fruit by Anne Miek Bibber on Flickr. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
What! you squint at the ladies, you old rotten medlar?. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
Here you are in Rome sitting under a Japanese medlar tree. From Wordnik.com. [Writing a Novel] Reference
The center of a medlar flower invites curiosity and introspection. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The mamosho or moshomosho, and milo (a medlar), were to be found near our encampment. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
As the medlar fruit matures on the tree it resembles an apple with a crown at its bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The medlar-like fruit is worked in Crewel stitch in bands of brown, stem lighter in shade. From Wordnik.com. [Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor] Reference
I was so moved by medlar that I spent a day researching the fruit and wrote a story about it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Of the two 2007 liqueurs that I decanted today, the bletted medlar one is good but a bit rough. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
Digo: mviru English: false medlar Giriama: mviru, muviru Kamba: mukomoa, muteleli Keiyo: kimolwet. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
I'm making yummy historical edibles as well as encouraging people to drink wine and medlar liqueur. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
In the garden of the latter is preserved a medlar-tree, planted by "the sweet singer of the temple.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850] Reference
Yes, marry, did I but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar. From Wordnik.com. [Measure for Measure] Reference
Also, the medlar, which I had previously only heard of in Shakespeare, seems to be a very, very odd food. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities du jour.] Reference
There were quince and medlar trees and the summer air was pungent with the fragrance of flowers and herbs. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
You'd let people eat whatever they liked, and your major sacrement would consist of chocolate and medlar liquer. From Wordnik.com. [gillpolack: Conflux banquet] Reference
This month confectioner Pierre Marcolini added medlar to his stable of fruit rich jams at his New York boutique. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The medlar is no ordinary fruit; it has inspired reverence and revulsion because of its obscure ripening process. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
That was a voice Alara recognized; Yshanerenal was as sour in nature as an unripe medlar, and carried grudges for decades. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
In the garden that slopes down to the river there was quite recently, and may be still, an old and gnarled medlar planted by Herbert. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
Tea was ready, under the shade of the medlar tree. From Wordnik.com. [Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls] Reference
A medlar the fewer on the three-legged medlar-tree!. From Wordnik.com. [Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
Ere I dropt in the grave, like a medlar that's mellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
Matilda came several inches lower down the medlar tree. From Wordnik.com. [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference
Neschflen néfle, French: Mispel medlar, Hunziker: Nesple medlar. From Wordnik.com. [Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois] Reference
The latter is a sort of medlar, which all hands pronounced delicious. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference
And he returned to his dream, pacing slowly from the medlar to the quince and back again. From Wordnik.com. [The Hill of Dreams] Reference
Others make beer of figs, quinces, mulberries, a kind of red medlar, and other things beside. From Wordnik.com. [Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois] Reference
I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit. From Wordnik.com. [As You Like It] Reference
There were also many hawthorn-trees, with leaves as large as those of the oak, and fruit like that of the medlar-tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09] Reference
The resulting fruit has a core character unknown in other apples but approached in certain apple-like fruits, as the medlar. From Wordnik.com. [The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1] Reference
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