grape-stone

Where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone.

un pépin - French Word-A-Day 2005

Where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone.

French Word-A-Day: 2005

Where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone.

French Word-A-Day: 2005

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

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

Another (Lucian) says he was choked by a grape-stone.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

The story of the grape-stone is told also of Anacreon.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

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

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

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