true fruit
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Or how shall a man know what is the true fruit of faith, indeed, whereby he may discern his own estate?
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Kleiser, Grenville
Its true fruit takes time to flower and swell and come to ripeness and sweetness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander
What we deem the fruit of the fig is, it will be remembered, only the husk, the apparent seeds being the true fruit and—before ripening—the blossom.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
The coverings surrounding them complete the true fruit.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The outer succulent part is the swollen receptacle, the horny core being the true fruit developed from the usually five carpels and enclosing the seeds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
