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The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots.

Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011

The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots.

Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011

His son John was even more fruitily inclined and ran one of the best nurseries in the country where he produced the Tillotson peach, started and edited the Country Gentleman, invented the smoothing harrow, and wrote such gripping pieces as “The Fruit Culturalist” and “Farm Implements and Machinery.”

American Connections James Burke 2007

His son John was even more fruitily inclined and ran one of the best nurseries in the country where he produced the Tillotson peach, started and edited the Country Gentleman, invented the smoothing harrow, and wrote such gripping pieces as “The Fruit Culturalist” and “Farm Implements and Machinery.”

American Connections James Burke 2007

When I was nine, I was fruitily sentimental, fluid: and my widowed aunt played Chopin, and I bent my head on the painted wookwork, and wept.

pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2003

She was an excrudatingly petite bluestocking with a fruitily upper-class accent; interngent, educated, charming and almost irritatingly attractive, but with the inexplicable flaw of a sexual craving for short-arsed Glaswegian investigative journalists who could break into hotel rooms.

Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

He was too intensely a club man, a filler of large armchairs in dark panelled rooms full of old exploded reputations and fruitily repeated secrets: 'Won't say a word, old boy.'

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

He was too intensely a club man, a filler of large armchairs in dark panelled rooms full of old exploded reputations and fruitily repeated secrets: 'Won't say a word, old boy.'

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

'Away with ye,' husked Jock Ferguson, coughing fruitily into a handkerchief.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

In distinct ways, they reflected modern sensibilities: Tissot's genre scenes were too fruitily morally ambiguous for many British observers, Sargent reflected new money through opulent images of the families of wealthy bankers, and Whistler's views of the Thames were near-abstract, privileging harmonic colour and light over specific description.

Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2012