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The area, from around Benson north to the river's confluence with the Gila River, is the last relatively undisturbed riparian setting in the southern Southwest.

As usual, Dean talked a mile a minute, in rapid, rippling, pyrrhic lines whose only stress fell on the last or penultimate syllable.

It was getting to be ripe inside.

True enough, the merchant's wife had not been a very appetizing sight-with her throat ripped open from ear to ear, her tongue lolling out of her mouth, and her eyes bulging out of her head-and then, of course, there was that pool of blood she was swimming in.

Jesus was convinced that her exodus had strangled any impulse her surviving children—his mother and aunt—had to get close to her, and had ripped open his life, for an eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow.

Her wasted frame barely made a ripple in the sharp-white hospital sheets (not remembered mounds of yellow flesh propped against her home pillows), plastic tubes following the lines of her throat, moving toward the curve of her slow-breathing chest, then trailing off.

That night I made myself an estouffade with three meats and abalone, which I had with red wine, crusty bread, a slab of St. Andre and a ripe comice pear.

Retirement is already sniffing me up to see if I'm ripe.

She's too pretty, too bosomy, too beautifully dressed, too ripe, too smart, too funny, too flirty, and too tempting to have around all day, every day.

The order's out, the die is cast, the time is ripe.

Heaven wills it thus, and so—amen!This frail bark, I fear, is going under;this tidal wave is ripping it asunder.

We are carried through the rivers of the underworld, spinning and sinking, ripped by the beaks of snapping turtles, tangled in bottom weeds.

It had been a fortnight since the old brindle cow tore her bag on a barbed-wire fence, ripped one tit from end to end, and the infection had set in, clabbering her milk right in the bag, the tit so sore, oozing yellow, that she'd kicked the calf away and wouldn't let it suck.

I look there, I see it: her twisted-around belly start to ripple.

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