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* In "A POISON TREE" from ''[[Songs of Innocence and of Experience|Songs of Experience]]'', the narrator's foe covets and steals an apple in the knowledge it belongs to the narrator. Of course, it turns out to be poisonous.
* Played unusually literally in Christina Rossetti's ''[[Goblin Market]]'', where magical fruit serves as a temptation to young women. (Yeah, it's probably a metaphor for something.)
* Invoked in WEB Griffin's ''The Corps'' series. Mrs. Sage specifically does ''not'' badmouth her daughter's Marine suitor, despite feeling that he's entirely wrong for her, because she knows full well that her daughter is a stubborn and contrary young woman.
{{quote|'''Mrs. Sage''': I am following that hoary old adage that the best way to rid yourself of your daughter's unsuitable suitor is to praise him to the skies.}}
** Then subverted when it turns out that her daughter knew exactly what her mother was doing and why. The two characters in question end up married.
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