true fruit

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There were others who believed that the Christian moral system must remain, because it had commended itself to man's nature as the highest and best and was the true fruit of evolutionary progress.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

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

That is, I have planted the seed that will produce the true fruit, and it is for others only to cultivate and nourish what I have planted.

From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by Reber, George

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