The earth was now filled in, and the sods replaced so carefully and neatly that no one could have told that the earth had ever been broken or the sods upturned.
The sodsrattled on the coffin-lid, the grave was filled up, and everybody was hurrying away out of the rain.
They buried the dead man; and when the sods were piled above him, your father told me of the vow he had made--the vow he meant to keep.
For ordinary cultivation, sods or mats of roots may be dug from any place in which the plant is colonized.
For small areas, and along the sides of walks and drives, sods may be used.
If a supply of the fresh herbage is wanted in winter, remove sods of it to the house six weeks before wanted.
Place the sods in boxes, and treat as for house plants.
When all danger of frost is over, and the ground has become warm, these sods may be carefully lifted and set in the prepared hills.
We could not leave the spot till the last earth was thrown upon the grave, and a mound covered with grassy sods was to be seen, where a little before was only a mournful cavity.
A dirty note, closed with a wafer, was stuck upon the pile, and this was found to state that the sods were "a token of gratitude for the Game Law Tales, from a Poacher.
One fine morning, soon after her entrance on her home, her maid found a great heap of sods under the window, when she opened the shutters in the morning.
At such times the people crouch all night over a few sods of turf and the dogs howl, in the lanes.
When the old woman lay down again the girl went over to put on more sods on the fire, and she got a look into the skillet, and what did she see but sixty sovereigns.
Whenever the seven grey hides, the seven sods from the heath, and the seven oak planks are touched I shall feel it wherever I shall be.
Over the lake are seven grey hides, and over the hides are seven sods from the heath, and under all these are seven oak planks.
It is called hill-planting, and consists in placing the young tree upright on the greensward with its roots properly spread out, and then covering the roots and supporting the trunk by thick sods cut so as to form a circular hillock around it.
Cutting banquettes or narrow terraces along the scarps, and planting rows of small deciduous trees and arborescent shrubs upon them, alternating with belts of grass obtained by turfing with sods or sowing grass-seeds.
In the end I became almost as soulless and stupid as the sods I turned up, and in the long run I debated whether I should take to drink or the road in order to enliven my life.
When I tried to drag myself out, the other two threw sods on top of me.
He says it's very bad for the trees to have the sods close up to their trunks.
There are, for example, the sodsabout the trees in the orchard.
The ability of caustic lime to improve the physical condition of land and to make inert plant food available has led many farmers to treat it as a substitute for manure, sods and commercial fertilizers.
The obvious need of our soils is the rich organic matter that clover and grass sodscould furnish, and their fundamental need is lime.
Heavy liming of an acid soil pays when a seeding to permanent pasture is made, and old sods on land unfit for tillage may be given a new life by a dressing.
Irrational use of the former has produced such destructive action in many instances that the failure to add manure or heavy sods for a long term of years has led to heavy decline in producing power.
This amount probably will permit fertilizers and tillage to make their full return in heavy sods that will provide humus.
A system of farming that involves the application of manure, thorough tillage, drainage where needed, and the free use of sods in some way, has kept portions of these non-calcareous soils out of the distinctly acid class.
Clover grows satisfactorily, grass sodsare heavy, and there is no acute lime problem.
The heaviest bluegrass sods are found where lime is abundant in the soil.
This most valuable pasture grass may withstand the encroachments of weeds for a long time when lime is not abundant, if plant food is not in scant supply, but dependable sods of this grass are made only in an alkaline soil.
Wherever stable manure and clover sods were not freely used, the heavy application of caustic lime was followed ultimately by decline in productive power.
Cumhal, ‘are not the sods as wet as the sands of the Three Rosses?
And Cumhal the son of Cormac began to blow upon the glowing turf that he might light the two sods and the wisp of straw; but the sods and the straw would not light, for they were damp.
Reader, I have ridden the Plains and seen many a settler living with his family in one small, dirty room, constructed out of sods with a black dirt roof, and dirt and dust on everything, on every side.
Beneath the double layer of stones and sods lay the roots cooked by this violent heating.
At the end of the trench the sodsare built up, making a short smokestack.
Therefore, we use green logs, sods or stones for fire-dogs in the wilderness.
THE HOBO Is carelessly built, a fire-place usually surrounding a shallow pit, the sides built up with sodsor stones.
In removing the sod one should be careful not to break them, then even though there be no sticks one may be able to cover the draught chimney with the sods themselves by allowing them to bridge the trench.
When obtainable, sticks are laid across the trench and sods laid upon the top of the sticks.
The mound was next day covered with cut sods arranged in steps, and a small flagstone was set in the ground at the head of the grave, whereon passing Mohammedans could spread out a carpet and pray for the repose of the deceased.
Stella was down on her knees feeding the dying fire with sods of turf.
There are hearths in Connaught on which the fire has not gone out for fifty years," said Lady O'Gara, watching the shower of sparks that rose and fell as Stella struck the black sods with the poker.
They built their house down there in the brush by the creek, and they covered it with willow twigs and sods to keep in the steam, and they made a fire and heated the stones red-hot, and carried them into the house and poured on water.
He lifted the remains tenderly, and placed them in the grave, gathering up all that he could find; then he shovelled the rich black mould of the mountain meadow on them, and heaped a little mound, and replaced the grassy sods on top.
Grogue; three or four sods of turf standing on end, supporting each other like a little pyramid on the bog to dry.
Synge was delighted with the narrow paths made of sods of grass alongside the newly-metalled roads, because he thought they had been put there to make soft going for the bare feet of little children.
He had been careful in cutting out the sods of turf; when replacing them in their former positions, he had done so with such neatness and accuracy that, two or three days after no stranger would have supposed they had ever been moved.
They were at some little distance from each other; he on one side of the newly-made fence, she, where freshly-turned sods showed that the old fence used to be.
From so pure and sweet a frame Thy spirit parted as it came, Gentle as a maiden; Now it lieth full of rest-- Sods are lighter on its breast Than the great, prophetic guest Wherewith it was laden.
Gods; Their nectar crowns the lips of Patience; Haste scatters on unthankful sods The immortal gift in vain libations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
