For the time she forgot the drudgery of the days--the plowing and planting and hoeing about the stumps of their little clearing, the cutting of wood, the carrying of water.
The days would go by while he calculated and speculated energetically over this problem and that, leaving such trivial tasks as planting and plowing to others.
But he will defend himself and his family pluckily, if he is attacked and has no choice of flight; and, if any one has killed one of his relatives, he will seek an opportunity of planting a poisoned dart in his body.
The state of these is examined in some cases before the planting of PADI, and sometimes before attempting to catch the soul of a sick man.
For generations, if not for ages, the people of Costa Rica have been gathering every morsel they can find, and planting it upon the roofs of their mud-built churches.
Sir Hugh Low tells me that he clothed all the trees round Government House at Pahang with Vanda teres, plantingits near relative, V.
Success of the Dukes of Athol inplanting it on the Highlands of Scotland 28 PART II.
Cimon sought to gratify the Athenians byplanting a public walk with them.
Success of the Dukes of Athol in planting it on the Highlands of Scotland.
An improved mode of plantingwas employed here, that of using young plants only, two or three years' seedlings, put into the ground by means of an instrument invented by the duke instead of the common spade.
His successor, John, duke of Athol, first conceived the idea of planting Larch by itself as a forest tree, and of planting the sides of the hills about Dunkeld.
The plantingof this forest appears to have terminated the labors of the duke in planting.
For the Saviour with His pitiful hand covered the bare mountains with the grandest forests ever seen, surrounding the rocks with spreading verdure, and planting flowers at their feet.
So his efforts prospered, and some of the good institutions of his plantingare growing still.
Every now and then he stopped to hold out his ice-axe handle to help Saxe; but the latter disdained all aid, and contented himself with planting his feet in the same spots as the guide, till all at once the man stopped.
By way of Bhutan, planting potatoes at intervals according to his orders, Bogle proceeded across the eastern Himalayas toward the Tibetan frontier, reaching Phari, the first town in Tibet, at the end of October.
In planting cabbages the first man was given a small sharp stick instead of a hoe, and man number two had a box of young plants.
A simple Diocletian prefers planting of cabbages; a George Washington, no very immeasurable man, does the like.
And what work nobler than transplanting foreign Thought into the barren domestic soil; except indeed planting Thought of your own, which the fewest are privileged to do?
In like manner they can paralyse any limb, as a hand or leg, by planting a particular root in the earth in the shadow of the limb they desire to maim.
That folk have no care for ploughing with oxen or for any planting of honey-sweet fruit; nor yet do they pasture flocks in the dewy meadow.
And when they had the holes filled up and the water turned off, and the planting of lilac bushes all finished, they stopped and leaned on their shovels and looked around, to see what else they had to do.
If affranchisement produced the destruction of planting in St. Domingo, we know now the reason.
Before emancipation, Jamaica was insolvent, her plantations were mortgaged beyond their value, and its planting was threatened in other ways far more than now.
How has the planting of slavery in new countries always been effected?
Let Congress hold off until they are ready to be admitted as a State, and the South has all it wants in taking slavery into and planting it in all the Territories that we now have or hereafter may have.
The future use is to be the planting of slavery wherever in the wide world local and unorganized opposition cannot prevent it.
I need do no more than state, to command universal approval, that almost the entire North, as well as a large following in the border States, is radically opposed to the planting of slavery in free territory.
These are vast national matters in his estimation; but the little matter in his estimation is that of planting slavery there.
There were more than two thousand Indians, and all worked busily from morning until night, the men plowing and planting in the fields, or making adobes for building houses, and the women weaving and sewing and cooking.
Like many other plants, it makes its best growth on fertile soils rich in calcium carbonate, although it will make sufficient growth on poor soils which are not acid to warrant planting it on them.
Fair results have been secured by planting seed with disk drills on prairie sod after it had been double-disked in the early spring.
After the drainage of water-logged land on which there is a surface accumulation of alkali, it is the common practice in parts of Utah to grow sweet clover for several years beforeplanting alfalfa.
It must not be assumed, because sweet clover is found growing luxuriantly in many waste places and on uncultivated land, that a stand may be obtained by planting it at any time of the year, in any manner, and under all conditions.
Irrigation was practiced when the rains were backward, and if we may credit Oviedo, by thus artificially forcing the crop in Nicaragua, well-filled corn was plucked only forty days after planting the seed.
In connection with the planting and growth of the various cultivated plants, the Mayas entertained some peculiar superstitions.
We shall find the planting and growth of maize not without influence in the development of the Nahua calendars, and that it was closely connected with the worship of the gods and with religious ideas and ceremonies.
Palacio tells us that to regulate marriages and the planting of crops was among the ruler's duties.
But ordinarily, this is too little, as the planting of the land cannot be proceeded with at once, and work must be procured among the neighbours, etc.
At three years the vines pay the expenses and interest on the money invested, and at four years from planting they bring the first large paying crop.
We saw the old Chief and his men planting themselves here and there to guard us, and the Natives prowling about armed and excited.
We once did so too, sacrificing and doing much abomination to our gods for weeks before our planting season every year.
But we saw our Missi only praying to the Invisible Jehovah, and planting his yams, and they grew fairer than ours.
It is a female figure, vigorous, beautiful, planting its foot lightly on a broken chain, and pointing upward.
Three steps a person would grope down, planting his uncertain foot on a dimly seen stone; the fourth step would be in the empty air.
The Catholics have taken a peculiar pleasure in planting themselves in the very citadels of paganism, whether temples or palaces.
As this method of planting these trees on a stone may seem as difficult as it is curious, I shall describe how I have seen it done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
