Cultivating

Examples

• Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is the subject in connection with which my son first had, I believe, the pleasure of cultivating your acquaintance. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Under such conditions, men take revenge, as it were, upon the alien and hostile environment by cultivating contempt for it, by giving it a bad name. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Even without the latter support the cultivating civilization of China has enormous powers of permeation and extension. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mass of the population was living then very much as it lives to-day; dressing, cultivating, and building its houses in much the same fashion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I observed, with pleasure, that he did not go to the forest that day, but spent it in repairing the cottage, and cultivating the garden. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The capital, therefore, annually employed in cultivating this land, and in maintaining this labour, must likewise be much greater. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When our remote ancestors saved a pinch of dough as leaven for the next baking, they were actually cultivating yeast, although they did not know it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But these can never afford manure enough for keeping constantly in good condition all the lands which they are capable of cultivating. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My only wish is to have the opportunity of cultivating some intercourse with the hands beyond the mere cash nexus. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The use of history for cultivating a socialized intelligence constitutes its moral significance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To reverence Washington they wear a powdered wig; they do honor to Lincoln by cultivating awkward hands and ungainly feet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Rudy