A bowl of cereal crackers lay between them, and the fleshy remains of plump green olives filled another.

The signature dish of this cozy restaurant by the harbor is stockfish stew, in a tomato base with thinly sliced potatoes and plump, juicy olives.

As soon as diners are seated, a plate of free appetizers arrives: bruschetta, chunks of nutty Parmesan and a scattering of plump, green olives.

And when it comes to salads, plump, glossy olives contribute a deliciously salty tang and meaty texture.

The Roman poet Virgil (70-10 BC) associated "the plump olive" with Pax and he used the olive branch as a symbol of peace in his Aeneid:

Jack contemplated the twenty imaginary drinks, the martini glasses blushing droplets of condensation, each with a swizzle poked through a plump green olive.

She fought with the lid on a jar of plump black olives, cursing it as the oven timer beeped.

Then he whipped a silver lid off a petite ceramic dish to reveal four plump green olives.

The Lyseni chose a plump olive from the bowl between them.

Lori asked her, popping a plump olive into her mouth.