Sowing

Examples

• Probably he prepared the ground for his sowing with a pole, or a pole upon which he had stuck a stag's horn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Italy claims the honour among European nations of first introducing a machine for sowing grain. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the ancestral lands of the south-east men had already been sowing wheat perhaps for thousands of years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have already indicated how easily and naturally men may have come to associate the idea of sowing with a burial. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The settled Chinese population went on sowing and reaping and trading during this change of masters without lending its weight to either side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had to fix a seedtime, a propitious seedtime, or his sowing was a failure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And you go about, sowing it and raising crops. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The aspect of the country had so far changed, that it had been impossible to enter on the task of sowing seed, and other autumnal labours. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• For ploughing, sowing, and harvesting, swift machines came forward to do the work of scores of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Italy First to Introduce a Grain Sowing Machine, Seventeenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Happily, there are more ways than one of sowing the good seed, and few persons are better versed in those ways than myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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