The latter rain ripened the grain, as the former rain in October tended to fructify the seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Directly the rains ceased, the grain ripened with still greater rapidity, and was gathered in before the end of May.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

For making butter the cream should be "ripened," i.e. it should contain certain bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [School and Home Cooking] Reference

Literally "ripened," with a hard rind and crumbly curd and more powerful flavor and aroma.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The peaches, expensive but soulless, "ripened" in storage containers on their long journey north.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News] Reference

It wasn’t until the idea ripened and exploded that I began to see that I was not becoming an advanced being like I had wanted to become.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Another Creationist Meltdown - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The war in Europe is the ripened fruit of the old system.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Along about November, the blockbuster movies have ripened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art For Autumn] Reference

Borden's unpleasant smile ripened under his now hooded eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borden, Dream on Lord of the Pies.] Reference

Outside her window, bunches of bananas ripened before his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘A Handbook to Luck’] Reference

Their superficial relations had gradually ripened into friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Melons, once they've ripened, in a warmer zone of the refrigerator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Day: How to store fresh fruits and vegetables] Reference

The huckleberries ripened; the "sarvices" hung thick in the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

Any ripened compost around 12: 1 still will GROW plants beautifully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

The flax had ripened, almost overnight, because of the extreme heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

August's tree-ripened peaches are now yielding to September's apples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse] Reference

  It was covered with blackberry vines heavy with nearly ripened fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE TICK IS FULL] Reference

In fact, the slaver sometimes ripened into something very like a pirate!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

The warmth of his sleep had given his cheeks the tint of a well-ripened peach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Most of them never ripened, just stayed green until they turned pulpy and soft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

These never produce fruit, for pumpkins are simply enlarged and ripened pistils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

= The walls of the ripened ovary, the part of the fruit that encloses the seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

I was told that as the fig grew and ripened it had all the appearance of a bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference

Many of these grafts bore flowers and had little nutlets but none of them ripened nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

  Jenny's presence quieted Rachel's complaints and evoked a sweetness like newly ripened fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent Living] Reference

Within easy reach grew trailing brambles smothered with ripened patches of fragrant blackberries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference

Produce• Once your bananas have ripened, store them in the refrigerator to slow further ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Day: How to keep food fresh] Reference

One whom time hath been thus long a working, and like winter fruit, ripened when others are shaken down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Find the ripened seed pods of the trillium, open them, count the number of chambers, and examine the seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

I went to the refrigerator and began removing ingredients: vine-ripened tomatoes, ricotta cheese, mozzarella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adults at Home] Reference

So at her bidding they gathered all the ripened stalks of the little flowers and laid them out in the sun as she directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Little Girl A Story for Children] Reference

The taste of a vine-ripened, home-grown tomato is the taste of summer (though clams dipped in butter may argue that point).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomato season] Reference

Apples of shame ripened my habitually pale cheeks when my English teacher, Mrs. Oakes, slammed the paper marked “C” on my desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight Snack] Reference

The creamy burrata is surrounded by vine-ripened cherry tomatoes bursting with flavor, tossed in olive oil and pungent basil leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In The Hamptons Part 2 Tutto ll Giorno] Reference

Lily had ripened out, was becoming more beautiful, more of a woman daily, despite the fact that her Pa still treated her like a kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

Digital pundits described this as a transitional year, when previously announced technologies finally ripened into plausible products.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rosy View From CES] Reference

What about the joy of biting into a sweet tree-ripened white nectarine or a Ginger Gold apple, the first apple of apple's long season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Clark Park] Reference

So cultivated the plants become weakened, the pods shortened, and the seeds less numerous, and better ripened; and these seeds give from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference