Bunches
[bʌntʃiz]
Examples
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Instead of massing them in big bunches as our head-gardener does, she had scattered them about loosely, here and there . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Instead of standing up straight and separated to be cut the wheat would more often come in great bunches, twisting about the sickles and getting tangled in the machinery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Oh, my love, we went to the vineyards, And there beheld bunches of purple wine fruit, Full of the milk of earth our mother. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The grapes are most excellent to this day, but the bunches are not as large as those in the pictures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was surprised and hurt when I saw them, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of my most cherished juvenile traditions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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