Gardener

Examples

• You find the damask rose a goodish stock for most of the tender sorts, don't you, Mr. Gardener? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mortimer, the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner--an old Crimean man of excellent character. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• There may be a young gardener, you know--why not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We found the gardener at work as usual. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sargon of Akkad, who founded the first Semitic empire in Asia (3800 B.., was brought up by an irrigator, and was himself a gardener. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Mr. Guppy and his friend follow Rosa; Mrs. Rouncewell and her grandson follow them; a young gardener goes before to open the shutters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Let the gardener sweep and sweep the turf as he will, and press the leaves into full barrows, and wheel them off, still they lie ankle-deep. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Strong was just coming out of the garden, where Mr. Dick yet lingered, busy with his knife, helping the gardener to point some stakes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This question between us is a question of soils and seasons, and patience and pains, Mr. Gardener. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It struck me that Wemmick walked among the prisoners much as a gardener might walk among his plants. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Sir Percival has kindly placed at my disposition the gardener, and the chaise, whenever I want them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In due course of time the gardener returned, and said that he had driven round by Mr. Dawson's residence, after leaving Mrs. Rubelle at the station. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You saw me send the gardener on to the house, with a letter addressed, in a strange handwriting, to Miss Fairlie? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Instead of massing them in big bunches as our head-gardener does, she had scattered them about loosely, here and there . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Yes, Sir,' said the gardener. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We see this acted on by farmers and gardeners in their frequent exchanges of seed, tubers, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Surely the hedges are shaped and measured and their symmetry preserved by the most architectural of gardeners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The circumstances of gardeners, generally mean, and always moderate, may satisfy us that their great ingenuity is not commonly over-recompensed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I have seen it gravely remarked, that it was most fortunate that the strawberry began to vary just when gardeners began to attend to this plant. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As we stepped out on to the lawn, one of the under-gardeners--a mere lad--passed us on his way to the house, with a letter in his hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Frozen-out old gardeners in the flower-beds of the heart, I took a personal offence against them all. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Gardening, for example, need not be taught either for the sake of preparing future gardeners, or as an agreeable way of passing time. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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