Crossword-Solution: RIPES 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Vines Thasian are there, Mareotids white, These apt for richer soils, for lighter those: Psithian for raisin-wine more useful, thin Lageos, that one day will try the feet And tie the tongue: purples and early-ripes, And how, O Rhaetian, shall I hymn thy praise? Yet cope not therefore with Falernian bins.

They mak' Him in the Broomielaw, o' Glasgie cold an' dirt, A jealous, pridefu' fetich, lad, that's only strong to hurt, Ye'll not go back to Him again an' kiss His red-hot rod, But come wi' Us” (Now, who were _They_?) “an' know the Leevin' God, That does not kipper souls for sport or break a life in jest, But swells the ripenin' cocoanuts an' ripes the woman's breast.” An' there it stopped: cut off: no more; that quiet, certain voice -- For me, six months o' twenty-four, to leave or take at choice.

She'd have stuck to him all through the time, 'tis my belief; if t'other hadn't come along.' 'At the time of the courtship,' resumed the woodman, 'the regiment was quartered in Casterbridge Barracks, and he and she got acquainted by his calling to buy a penn'orth of rathe-ripes off that tree yonder in her father's orchard--though 'twas said he seed her over hedge as well as the apples.

And then--well, I was watchin' the pink spread up her cheeks, and was sort of gazin' into them big gray eyes, and gen'rally takin' one of them long, lingerin' looks; and we was both leanin' back not so very far apart, with the slides of the cab shuttin' everything else out--and then all of a sudden I heard her sort of whisper "Well?"--and--and--Ah, say! With a pair of cherry ripes as close as that, what else was there to do? "Why, Torchy!" says she, jumpin' away.

Then: "C-r-rr-ripes! She's busted through! She's comin' like a river!" He jumped and clawed at the sides in his frenzy, and Wallie could see that Rufus well might do so, for even as Wallie looked the water rushed in and rose to Rufus's ankles, and before he could get the bucket over the edge and started downward it was well to his knees, bubbling faster with every second as the opening widened.