32 Verbs to Use for the Word sower

'You're a very leery cove, by the look of you, but I can tell you that you've got the wrong sow by the ear this time.

In Brabant on the same Sunday, down to the beginning of the nineteenth century, women and men disguised in female attire used to go with burning torches to the fields, where they danced and sang comic songs for the purpose, as they alleged, of driving away "the wicked sower," who is mentioned in the Gospel for the day.

There should be a door to the stye with the lower sill elevated a foot and a palm high so as to prevent the pigs from following the sow when she goes out.

I heard a well-authenticated story of a case in which all the members of a family died except a creeping infant who subsisted for some time by sucking a breeding sow which was being kept in the kitchen.

2 1 10 Charge for running a sow and pigs, from 1st Aug. to date, 2s.

(Festivals these were: and the Athenians always sacrifice a sow at one, and a boar at the other; while at the Dionysia they sacrifice a kid.)

At daylight you must milk the cows, Make butter, cheese, an feed the sows, Put on the kettle, the cook arouse, And clean the family shoes.

Then followed in their order the nut-sowers, apple-sowers, and the sowers of other goodies.

" "Squires' hobbies are generally like the silver trough the lady gave her sow," said Mrs. Duncombe; "they come before the poor are prepared, and with a spice of the autocrat.

but grease a fat sow, &c. CRA.

The cows come trampling through the yard; the bull bellows in the meadow; great, grunting sows, savage when they have young, go by, thrusting their noses into and turning up the earth for food; steam ploughing engines pant and rumble about; carts are continually coming and going; and he is all day in the midst of it without guardian of any kind whatsoever.

No; it was through policy I wedded her mother; and we have been very unhappy, Isabeau and I. A word in your ear, son-in-law: Madame Isabeau's soul formerly inhabited a sow, as Pythagoras teaches, and when our Saviour cast it out at Gadara, the influence of the moon drew it hither.

A similar tale is told of Theseus (2 syl.), who vanquished and killed the gigantic sow which ravaged the territory of Krommyon, near Corinth.

SALLY Divil mind the sow, They sit down together.

but if she would not onbewitch her sow she should need no ducking & soon after yt her sow was well and eat her meat."

But when he saw how much the maid outweighed his sow, he broke off the bargain and would not go on.

The stye should be built about three feet deep and a little more in width and such a height from the ground as will permit a pregnant sow to get out without straining herself, as that might cause her to abort.

The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, That sacred stream! should never water weeds, 20 Nor make the crop of thorns and thistles grow, Which envy or perverted nature sow.

Or, if that will not tame you, I will complayne to'th fownder of your loosenes, Your riotts, and disorders, and petition That you, as sowers off seditious hatred And sole disturbers of our common peace, Maye bee excluded this society, Banisht by common barre-law, and shutt out To publick shame and beggerye.

Among these he purchased eight sows for 70 maravedies each, from which all those which have since stocked the Indies have multiplied.

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.

it was, she sd a sow, & in a like manner continued disturbd a nights abought ye space of three weeks,

And shot his own sow quite through the heart; Sing heigh-ho, the carrion crow, Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do! Wife!

That the last day, or Latter Lammas, as to all temporal affairs is never, may be illustrated by the following story:A man at confession owned his having stolen a sow and pigs; the father confessor exhorted him to make restitution.

"They don't" "There was a case," went on Mr. Tutt reminiscently "Let me seeat Sauvigny, I think it wasabout 1457, when they tried a sow and three pigs for killing a child.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  sower