Do we say sew or sow

sew 425 occurrences

She cut out clothes for the people and taught the women how to sew.

I was in the matron's room, getting her to sew two buttons on my waistcoat.

Gull went straight away to the matron's room, and asked her to sew the two buttons on his waistcoat; he'd pulled them off on purpose.

But first, sew up your pockets.

" "Unless," added one of benignant aspect, "he sew the abomination up in a sack and cast her into the sea, then peradventure he may yet find place for repentance.

Frequently experiencing the truth of the adage, that as you sew so shall you rip, the fair young thing was passing half her valuable time in ripping out the mistaken stitches she had made in the other half; and the severe moral discipline thus endured, made her mad, as equivalent vexation would have made a man the reverse of that word.

"I can still sew," returned the girl, courageously, "although of course I cannot get about easily to search for employment.

"She knows I can sew, if only I can get work to do," said the girl, simply.

Stuff the carp with a delicate forcemeat, after thoroughly cleansing it, and sew it up to prevent the stuffing from falling out.

Mode.Scale and clean the fish, without cutting it open much; put in a nice delicate forcemeat, and sew up the slit.

Clean the fish, take out the roes, and fill up with forcemeat, and sew up the slit.

Scale the fish, take out the gills, wash, and wipe it thoroughly dry; stuff it with forcemeat, sew it up, and fasten the tail in the mouth by means of a skewer; brush it over with egg, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and baste with butter, before putting it in the oven, which must be well heated.

"That's very nice," said Patty, with an air of satisfaction, "for, though I hate to sew, yet sometimes it must be done; and with that little work-table, I think I could sew even in an Indian wigwam!"

"That's very nice," said Patty, with an air of satisfaction, "for, though I hate to sew, yet sometimes it must be done; and with that little work-table, I think I could sew even in an Indian wigwam!"

She wasn't as tidy about her clothes as I liked to see, and I thought if I gave her a handy thing like this, she'd be willing to sew.

Catherine had removed to her father's house, and was preparing to sit down to sew, as was her custom, when her father, returning from the office adjoining, brought her a letter.

Not to lose ground, however, she hired herself to the neighbouring farmers' wives to sew during her spare time, leaving Dame Damerel to the occasional care of Susan Larkin.

Since then, Miss Penstock had sometimes consented to go for a few days at a time to sew in the houses of her favorite employers, just to keep from forgetting how to speak,' the poor little woman said.

I was seventeen years old, but I knew of nothing I could do except to sew; I did not know enough to teach.

"Haven't you pieces enough to finish it?" "Oh, yaas, I got bits enough, but de trouble is to sew 'em up.

I can't sew very fas' nowadays.

It almost appeared as if she had not been in prison at all, in the ordinary way, but at school, in an institute, where one could learn to sew and weave and write, and do dressing and dyeingall that she had learned in Trondhjem.

I can cut, sew, and do all that sort of thing, and together we will make a lovely gown of it for you.

" "I will sew up some of the holes when you're gone to bed, Andy.

If dressing is to be used, stuff the body full, sew up, and truss.

sow 869 occurrences

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

When the river has subsided, the natives begin to sow and plant, and the vegetation is exceedingly rapid.

The people went to sow wheat.

Then there is the sow-thistle, which in Russia is said to belong to the devil; and Loki, the evil spirit in northern mythology, is occasionally spoken of as sowing weeds among the good seed; from whence, it has been suggested, originated the popular phrase of "sowing one's wild oats."

Cerberus stands and grins above me now, Wearing three headslion, and lynx, and sow.

They had five hundred sixty-six wagons, and carried large quantities of grain, which they were able to sow before it froze.

An' we'll sow two thousand acres of winter wheat.

America to succor and to save, to sacrifice and to sow, rising out of its peaceful slumber to a mighty wrath, magnificent and unquenchable, throwing its vast resources of soil, its endless streams of wheat, into the gulf of war!

Just what happens every daythat he had to sow his wild oats for himself, and eat the fruit thereof, and the dirt thereof also.

How dare anyone sow me against my will!

" "As for me," said the proud grain, fiercely, "I should like to see the man who would dare to sow me!"

"They not only sow me," she called out, "but they throw me all by myself, where I can have no company at all.

Johnny Crow Would dig and sow Till he made a little Garden.

When we learn, also, that in the precious lives of these little ones we cannot reap what we do not sow, and we must reap all which we do sow, and that the emptiness or the richness of the harvest is not so much for us as for them, one of the first among the many things which we shall reform will be "children's parties.

When we learn, also, that in the precious lives of these little ones we cannot reap what we do not sow, and we must reap all which we do sow, and that the emptiness or the richness of the harvest is not so much for us as for them, one of the first among the many things which we shall reform will be "children's parties.

But of course, if you're here to sow sedition, and should there be a document at large in proof of it, which document should fall into the hands of the police well, I couldn't do much for you then.

They sow and reap, and are at war with the children of Chus, who dwell in the deserts.

They issued forth to look once more upon the stars, and to sow seeds every where of destruction to the Christians.

The little lame boy (el cojito) took this as an insult and the others intervened to restore peace, but in reality only to sow discord and come to blows themselves.

He sent an embassy to the Jews outside the city with intent to sow dissension between them and the Kureisch.

Besides, men cannot foresee future events, in this uncertainty of human affairs; they would not so marry, if they could foretell the causes of their dislike and separation; or parents, if they knew the hour of their children's death, so tenderly provide for them; or an husbandman sow, if he thought there would be no increase; or a merchant adventure to sea, if he foresaw shipwreck; or be a magistrate, if presently to be deposed.

If thou be in woe, sorrow, want, distress, in pain, or sickness, think of that of our apostle, "God chastiseth them whom he loveth: they that sow in tears, shall reap in joy," Psal. cxxvi.

Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; a hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, a hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.

Yet, to sow a seed Of infamy to him on whom I feed, Tell it I will:ay, and thine eyes shall see Mine own weep all the while for misery.

Let it remain for a week so that the soil may get warm, then sow the seed, and cover it with a hand-glass.

Do we say   sew   or  sow