Grandpappy is grubbing and piling deadened thorn trees, piling brush, logs and dead limbs, spading-up locust, thorn, elm, osage orange and wild crabapple sprouts .
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
A fine, sweet, juicy crabapple is more desirable than a scrubby, diseased Jonathan.
"Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training"
Mosiah Hall
You will hear a chorus of screech-owls to each song of that poor Irma, whom the Italian people call "crabapple."
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith