There were ripe olives, as well as figs and dates.
The ground here is purple with ripe olives unprofitably leaching their oil onto the roots of last year's olive seedlings.
The fully ripe olives have "a dark colour that ranges from black brownish-purple to brownish-black".
It would have been even zestier if ripe olives had been used instead of canned ones.
The circle itself showed a remarkable resemblance to a slice of ripe olive.
Miss Hartley ate most of a bowl of 365 ripe olives.
And ... isn't there something that can get into ripe olives?
Wheat ripened golden in the fields; plump, ripe olives made branches sag.
His eyes were the purple-black of ripe olives.
She was a small woman, almost as solid as her husband, with dark skin and eyes as black as ripe olives.