Limes in example sentence

Accordingly, having spent three days in this journey, I came home (so I must now call my tent and my cave); but before I got thither the grapes were spoiled; the richness of the fruit and the weight of the juice having broken them and bruised them, they were good for little or nothing; as to the limes, they were good, but I could bring but a few.

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The economic boom brought on by soaring global demand for commodities – Argentina is a leading exporter of soy beans, corn, wheat, honey, and limes, for example – resulted from a shift in Argentine farming that pre-dates the Kirchners: the old landholders have given way to operators with managerial skills.

"If I were you, I should cut down those limes, but it must be done when the sap rises.

You must have a thousand limes here, and each one of them would yield a good lot of bast, and at present bast fetches a good price.

Why don't we cut down our limes for bast?' said Levin, returning to the thought that had struck him.

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