In sunlight, her black hair had the bluish iridescence of a ripe plum.

He threw himself this way and that, purple upon crimson, like an over- ripe plum.

The name rolls around your tongue like a ripe plum.

The loudmouth had reddish hair and a swollen eye as purple as a ripe plum.

But you're so meek; I bet you dropped into his mouth like a ripe plum!

I pushed in no way; the fool dropped into your husband's hands like a ripe plum.

It was like throwing a big, ripe plum into the fire Brokaw was the first to hedge.

Other days it is blue as a great ripe plum, and the horizon is faint-pink, like down.

Next to Elena, Patrick sat utterly still, a ripe plum in his hand, washed but not eaten.

The Deep Ones will rise out of their ocean graves and eat the moon like a ripe plum.

The stems and the base of the leaf-stalk are coated with, glaucous bloom, like that of a ripe plum.

Combles is a ripe plum.

Just as she spoke, a ripe plum dropped bounce on the grass before us, as if answering her question.

So, then, he thought I was ready and waiting to drop like a ripe plum into his mouth, without his asking me!

The admiral, having disposed of the would-be king, sailed for Barcelona, which he was told was a ripe plum, ready to fall into his mouth.

You did not, I suppose, expect my sister to drop into your mouth like a ripe plum the first moment you chose to open it?'