Cherry Pit

It was four and then he remembered the man who had the fox to sell when they had walked into Bludenz, that time to buy presents, and the cherry-pit taste of good kirsch, the fast-slipping rush of running powder-snow on crust, singing Hi! ❋ Ernest Hemingway (2001)

Far ahead, the great round half-dome of the Shed looked like a cherry-pit on the horizon. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)

QUOTATION: ’T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Gravity, humour the test of, 578. out of his bed at midnight, 59. to play at cherry-pit, 76. ❋ John Bartlett (1862)

'T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. ❋ John Bartlett (1862)

’tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang him, foul collier! ❋ Unknown (1914)

In the New World have I been, man — in the Eldorado, where urchins play at cherry-pit with diamonds, and country wenches thread rubies for necklaces, instead of rowan-tree berries; where the pantiles are made of pure gold, and the paving-stones of virgin silver.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

845’T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. ❋ Unknown (1919)

30’T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. ❋ Unknown (1919)

'tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang him, foul collier! ❋ Unknown (1601)

I have been reading over the _Five Nights of St. Albans_, -- very much _extra mœnia nostri mundi_, and possessed of considerable merit, though the author [336] loves to play at cherry-pit with Satan. [ ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

In the New World have I been, man -- in the Eldorado, where urchins play at cherry-pit with diamonds, and country wenches thread rubies for necklaces, instead of rowan-tree berries; where the pantiles are made of pure gold, and the paving-stones of virgin silver. " ❋ Walter Scott (1801)