Cultivated

Examples

• Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When the crown lands had become private property, they would, in the course of a few years, become well improved and well cultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ignorant distrust of opium (in England) is by no means confined to the lower and less cultivated classes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I am fast coming to the end of my offences against your cultivated modern taste. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They cultivated n umerous vegetables, grains, fruits, and flowers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass settled at Dingley Dell, where they purchased and cultivated a small farm, more for occupation than profit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At a second stop I met some highly cultivated people of the noble class and while in conversation we chanced to speak of Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Having travelled around the world, I had cultivated an indifference to any special difficulties of that kind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• How far the patch he cultivated was his own was never very clear to him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Why have I cultivated you in the manner I have done since the morning? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Towns and cities flourished, the countryside was well cultivated, trade went on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The rent and profit of barley land, besides, must always be nearly equal to those of other equally fertile and equally well cultivated land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Except in particular situations, therefore, the rent of corn land regulates in Europe that of all other cultivated land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The cultivated rubber comes practically clean, but the crude rubber biscuits contain more or less dirt and foreign vegetable matter which have to be removed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He should have more of self-assertion and be less cultivated, and yet a friend of culture; and he should be a good listener, but no speaker. Plato. The Republic.
• A field overgrown with briars and brambles, may frequently produce as great a quantity of vegetables as the best cultivated vineyard or corn field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Gray skies, small cultivated landscapes, ugly cities, sad-looking men and women. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They are to be turned into means of development, of carrying power forward, not indulged or cultivated for their own sake. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If ever Africa shall show an elevated and cultivated race,--and come it must, some time, her turn to figure in the great drama of human improvement. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A great part of them was uncultivated; but no part of them, whether cultivated or uncultivated, was left without a proprietor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But to hold the two together requires an informed and cultivated imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Chinese land has always been cut up into small holdings, which are chiefly freeholds, and cultivated intensively. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The roads were wide and good, and the country well cultivated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The lands which had once been cultivated, are nowhere neglected. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I have always cultivated a feeling of humane indulgence for foreigners. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On these plantations, rubber trees are cultivated just the same as other crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The pear, though cultivated in classical times, appears, from Pliny's description, to have been a fruit of very inferior quality. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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