At the top of the other bag is a somewhat bruised apple called Ed.

She held up a particularly bruised apple and inspected it ruefully.

She would cook some porridge and chop the bruised apples into it.

Halak had turned things over so many times in his head, his brain felt like a bruised apple.

One vendor had pillowed his head on a washbowl full of bruised apples.

But the juice market is so weak that the cost of harvesting the bruised apples would exceed the price paid for the fruit.

"Bruised apples, ones that fall from the trees, don't usually end up in apple- sauce, ya know.

Bruised apples made for gut cider, they knew.

Like people who are rushed and overworked and their eyes look like bruised apples.

Saul bit into his bruised apple.

Officials said 89 small bruised apples, 45 tangerines, 80 oranges, 155 cucumbers and a case of cigarettes were delivered to the embassy.

That is the bruised apple.'

Even Sal and Kitty turned up their noses when he offered them such delicacies as black bananas and bruised apples.

Bruised apples also fetch less in the marketplace, so agricultural engineers have turned to miniature electronics to find ways to reduce the jostling an apple receives.

The butler's face fell as he walked to the table, carrying the tray with the forlornness of a man trying to sell bruised apples in Covent Garden market.

The New Yorker "Like a bruised apple, Burr has long lain ready for peeling, and what a fascinating book Vidal has made of him!"

Things like the danger posed by a single bruised apple to an entire crate, how to operate a forklift and how to arrange colorful produce displays to seduce buyers.

Susan walked in tonight after dinner clutching a handful of crappy little objects: a bent fork, a bruised apple, a Barbie's head, and the plastic top from a Tylenol container.

I quickly sussed out which sellers just piled good fruit on top of bad, which dealers would attempt to hide a bruised apple and which suppliers would always try to short-measure you.

The two Hearthwares turned to meet the new foes, but Bicker's blade had already slid into the throat of one, and Isay's staff had split the skull of the other like a bruised apple.

Products that are at or past their "sell by" dates or are imperfect in any way - a bruised apple or day-old bread - are donated by grocery stores, food vendors, restaurants, and farmers markets.

She knew their names and the afflictions they suffered from, she knew the names of their children, and she was never, ever, fobbed off with inferior or bruised apples and pears or dying spinach.

For them, the real price of a pair of socks and a few bruised apples was Nicolae Ceausescu's re-election as Communist Party leader and with it the certainty of continued rationing of everything that makes life tolerable.

Natasha Richardson is Sofia Belinsky, a spirited Russian émigrée countess who becomes the bruised apple of his unseeing eye, but the warmth generated between Ms. Richardson and Mr. Fiennes barely reaches room temperature.

IGN proclaimed SaGa Frontier to be "the only bruised apple in Square's current collection of role-playing games", similarly stating that the game's Free Scenario System can become confusing and easily cause the player to become lost.