golden apple

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golden
adjective
uk
/ˈɡəʊl.dən/us
/ˈɡoʊl.dən/
made ...
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apple
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈæp.əl/us
/ˈæp.əl/
a round fruit with firm, white flesh and a green, red, or ...
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(Definition ofgoldenandapplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His captors told him he could have the vine if he brought them agoldenapple.
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In spite, she threw agoldenappleinto the midst of the goddesses that was to be awarded only to the fairest.
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Although his campaign mainly focused on distributing jackfruit seedlings, he also distributed other plants such as papaw, mango, sapodilla, durian andgoldenapple.
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Coming to a great mountain, she finds an old woman playing with agoldenapple.
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The next morning, the youngest daughter takes out thegoldenapple.
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Though the prince catches thegoldenappleand escapes, and does so again on two more occasions, he is eventually found.
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Atalanta is tempted to stop and pick up eachgoldenapple, which slows her enough to lose the race.
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Sure enough, she quit running long enough to retrieve eachgoldenapple.
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Performers juggled as a giantgoldenappleflew across the stadium.
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Taking a chest full of golddust, a lump of salt, a flask of water, agoldenapple, and two golden chickens, she sets out with the prince.
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The princess then demanded a golden hen with golden chick, and when he produced it, insisted that he be brought before her, because he had to have thegoldenapple.
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She was annoyed at this, so she arrived with agoldenappleinscribed with the word (kallisti, for the fairest one), which she threw among the goddesses.
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The same thing happened in a silver wood and a golden one, and soon the princess had a silver leaf and agoldenapple, along with the copper leaf.
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The second prince, who came on a gray charger, brought her a nightingale made of a thousand diamonds, and it was placed beside thegoldenapple.
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Prslea went to work for the silversmith who had to do this and brought out the one the ogre had given her, using thegoldenapple.
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So often the prizes of being directed away have been rather like golden apples.
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She sat on the mountain with three golden apples in her lap; whoever took them would marry her and get half the kingdom.
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The son dreamed of an orchard with trees of such golden apples, which held a princess with golden skin.
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In the second town, he is asked why a tree that once produced golden apples will not even sprout leaves.
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