In every town and village you will encounter children, on and about New Year's Day, going from door to door of shops and houses, bearing an apple or an orange curiously tricked out.
In a parish near Chepstow it was usual to make the figure of a cross on the salt, and cutting an apple or an orange into quarters, to put one piece at each termination of the lines.
Thousands of children in Wales seek to win from their elders a New Year's copper by exhibiting the apple gift, or by singing in chorus their good wishes.
Beginning with the year: there is in Glamorganshire a New Year's Day custom of great antiquity and large present observance, called the apple gift, or New Year's gift.
To snatch the apple with the lips, and yet avoid the candle, is the aim of the competitors.
And lay an apple upon hys head, And go syxe score paces hym fro, And I my selfe with a brode arow Shall cleve the apple in two.
An apple upon his head he set, And then his bowe he bent: Syxe score paces they were outmet, And thether Cloudesle went.
The next best would be to declare that they tasted somewhat better than Eve thought the apple was going to taste.
But they are wrong in speaking of the bribe as if it were an apple rotten at the core, or a bag of counterfeit coin, or a wisp of artificial hay.
Just dub that apple down out of the tree, will 'ee?
Knocking down the small worthless fruit, or 'griggles,' left on the trees after the apple crop has been gathered in.
Ivan bowed before her, then as she offered him a rosy apple he led her toward Anna, a great Viking leading a withered old woman who walked with the grace of a duchess.
He made one of a half dozen who gripped the rope and started to pull the ancientapple woman to the deck.
Sure, I'll give every one of ye a rosy red apple an' me blessing with it.
The apple seller was on deck then, and with the wisdom of the Celt she understood.
But 'twas beautiful, just the same, all shimmering cold blue, and white like apple blossoms that have blanched and are ready to fall.
Her small black mask hung over her shoulder and she was arranging a huge basket of apple blossom sprays in the library when Phyllis, looking like a very lovely May Queen, entered the room.
I might wear that with a wreath of apple blossoms in my hair.
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The boy who begins taking just a bite of somebody else's apple is likely going to pull off something big some day!
She hums and beats gently, then restores the tambourine to the sleepy TIBBY, who, waking, has placed a piece ofapple in her mouth.
The set scene represents the end section of a room, with wide French windows, Back Centre, fully opened on to an apple orchard in bloom.
TABBY, tambourine in one hand and apple in the other, smiles stolidly.
They pressed upon the strangers abundance of delicate pine-apple wine.
A border prince, Toparimaca, regaled Ralegh's captains with pine-apple wine till some of them were 'reasonable pleasant.
They have dandy russet apples up there, and, oh boy, can't Horace's sister Betty make apple dumplings.
See what kind of a farm he lives on, and if it's any good we'll hike up there next summer and strip the apple trees.
I guess I felt as nervous as William Tell when he was going to shoot the apple off his son's head.
There the Wood-apple hung its load, The Mango and the Citron glowed, The Bel and scented Jak were there, And Apelá with fruitage fair.
The academy was in a large square, the greater part of which was an orchard of apple trees.
The Apple Murex (Murex pomum) is of home production, being found on the shores of Florida and throughout the West Indies.
He caught up a length of pipe, walked to the apple trees, inserted his pipe in a crotch and bent it into an 'L.
A doe that had come to the apple trees stamped an apprehensive foot and drifted slowly into the forest.
A doe and two spring fawns were nosing about the apple trees.
However, these tough appletrees had been broken by bears every year they'd borne a crop and they'd always recovered.
He snorted again, more hopefully than angrily, and when he did not regain possession of the apple trees, he looked sad.
She was taking an apple pie from the oven, but took time to be saucy over her shoulder.
Your idea is for me to give you the apple and stand by while you eat it.
That card wouldn't be worth a red apple in a court of law, but you know me, and you know it's good fur every penny you lose.
I knocked the apple on the ground, and stamped on it.
Such an apple on such a crab-tree seemed monstrous.
Now, you gi' me a lie under your blanket, I 'll knock down a apple apiece.
In the heat of patriotism I declared she was handsome, and repeated it, though I experienced a twinge of remorse, like what I should have felt had I given Minerva the apple instead of Venus.
He'll be champion some day,' said Kiomi, at gnaw upon an apple he had given her.
I'm goin' to knock down a apple or two on your head?
One fellow enraged me by throwing anapple that hit her in the back.
Then I understood him to claim the apple I had flung away, whereupon I made a grimace of dislike and a gesture of rejection.
A big-apple world it would be with nothing for the babies!
The child stood by himself a little way off, eating an apple nearly as big as his head.
He answered with a howl of rage that seemed to say, "Do you dare tell me my apple was not fit to eat?
His white Adam's apple twitched with fear under his chin.
Durman, the thorn apple or datura, a very poisonous plant.
Bogdanov was alarmed, trembled, and his grey Adam's apple quivered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: berry; ebony; fruit; oak; orange; tree
