old prune
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In 1970, Winiarski and some investors purchased an old prune orchard off the Silverado Trail, a few miles north of Napa in what is now known as the Stags Leap District American Viticultural Area.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
“You’ll turn into a wrinkled old prune, and for what? Elim?”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
I have an old prune orchard on river bottom lands; soil about 15 or 16 feet deep.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
"Well," said Kent, after Lydia had settled them all comfortably, "I just left Charlie Jackson—poor old prune!"
From Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow
"What, 'Puffy' Biggles!" says I. "Not that old prune face with the shiny dome and the baggy eyes?"
From Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford
