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- noun The
seed (pip ) of agrape .
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Examples
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Where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone.
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Where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Neither ought you to wonder at the death of another poet, I mean old jolly Anacreon, who was choked with a grape-stone.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Neither ought you to wonder at the death of another poet, I mean old jolly Anacreon, who was choked with a grape-stone.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Another (Lucian) says he was choked by a grape-stone.
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The story of the grape-stone is told also of Anacreon.
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Qui fortiter emungit, elicit sanguinem [Violent wringing makes the nose bleed]; and where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone.
LVI. Of Judicature 1909
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For I pass over the peculiar nature of all things which are produced from the earth; which generates such great trunks and branches from so small a grain of the fig or from the grape-stone, or from the minutest seeds of other fruits and roots; shoots, plants, twigs, quicksets, layers, do not these produce the effect of delighting any one even to admiration?
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887
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For I say nothing here of the natural force which all things propagated from the earth possess -- the earth which from that tiny grain in a fig, or the grape-stone in a grape, or the most minute seeds of the other cereals and plants, produces such huge trunks and boughs.
Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero 1874
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