Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underlined the advice in Ecclcsiasics, "He that observeth the wind shall now; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. In the morning sow seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand...
...power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...
...Everybody who has a bit of ground in which he can sow wheat must do it," clarioned Dev. But Eire's farmers knew that, with all the good intentions in the world, they could do nothing until the rains stopped and the drying winds began to blow. "We didn't need Patrick Smith to tell us we depended on God," they said...
...store, in the days before the AAA messed the cotton business up with red tape, we sold "salt pork" under name of "bacon," "side bacon," and, to the vulgar, "sow belly." That was the only meat we sold and, naturally, I assume that it is your fatback...
Margery Sharp, British author of the cinematized Cluny Brown, flew to the U.S. for a month's vacation, speculated on the casting of her soon-to-be-cinematized Britannia Mews. Who should play the disreputable Mrs. Mounsey, "the Sow" ("Her person was obscene . . . she sagged with fat . . .")? Novelist Sharp had an idea: "Charles Laughton . . . would be simply marvelous, but I don't suppose that would be quite proper, would...