Sown

Examples

• This sea bottom, in localities near land, is abundantly sown with wrecks, old and new, and in many cases bearing permanently valuable cargoes, such as gold and coal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; and that may be the case here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Stiff, coarse straw will not answer unless packed very solid; finer and softer, as of thickly sown oats, is better, and the walls which it forms need not be quite so thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Whoever labours for man must often find ingratitude, watered by vice and folly, spring from the grain which he has sown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Only I wish you had sown those wild oats of yours, George. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I hope Osborne has sown his wild oats, said Mrs. Magenis to Mrs. Bunny. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I have never done well in life beyond my duty as a soldier, and if the worst comes after all, I shall reap pretty much as I have sown. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We found the night-air keen; or at least I did: he did not seem to feel it; but it was very still, and the star-sown sky spread cloudless. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What I reaped, I had sown. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The dragon's teeth are already sown amongst Mr. Yorke's young olive-branches; discord will one day be the harvest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The finest seeds, such as grass and clover, onion and turnip seed, and delicate seed like rice, are handled and sown by machines without crushing or bruising, and with the utmost exactness. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The quantity sown per acre is governed by simply increasing or diminishing the speed of the feed wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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