... “Well then, the fact is, friend Sancho,” said the duke, “that unless you become softer than a ripe fig, you shall not get hold of the government... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
..."Leave aside all that nonsense, comrade, for it sounds badlycoming from a man so ripe in years as you are...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...He had wrought them up to a pitch of dangerous passion, and they were ripe for any violence to which he urged them...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... So my mind was ripe for the proposalof Archie Leslie, on our way home to tea, that by a little skill wemight give the kirk the slip...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...The banks are lined with palm, wild date-trees, and many guavas, the fruit of which was now becoming ripe...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... The "Free Emigration" schemes hitherto attempted have been mere snares and delusions; chiefly, I hold, because the age was not ripe for them...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
..."Is it ripe, yet?" she inquired sleepily, brushing away a troublesomefly that had impudently settled on her hair...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...I was out yesterday with Julius, and we thumped it,and concluded it would be fully ripe by tomorrow or next day...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...It would seemthat the time is now ripe and the moment an auspicious one for theestablishment of this Lectureship, at least tentatively...
Booker T. Washington 「The Negro in the South」
...But I had accomplished my mission at this place, and it pleased God to remove me to another field of labor, where the harvest was ripe and ready for the reaper...
Charles Thompson 「Biography of a Slave」
...He’s ripe, is Almington, for a little, innocentflower of a girl like Cecilia...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...The fruit is ripe...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906」
...Millions of adult birds,—all therewere,—were killed in the breeding season, when theplumes were ripe for the market; and millions of young birds starvedin their nests...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...(south of New Iberia) informed me that every winter, during the two weeks that the holly berries are ripe thousands of robins come to his vicinity to feed upon them...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Accordingto Sir Stamford Raffles it is taught to climb the cocoa palms forthe fruit for its master, and to select only those that are ripe...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The future will seeinstruments boring thousands of feet into the earthin a day, and developing measures and mysterieswhich the world is not now ripe for understanding...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
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