Why schuld I sowen draf out of my fest, Whan I may sowe whete, if that me lest?
Suche is as wyse a man As he that wolde seeth a quycke Sowe in a Pan.
And God sawe that it was good And God sayd: let the erth bringe forth herbe and grasse that sowe seed/ and frutefull trees that bere frute every one in his kynde/ havynge their seed in them selves vpon the erth.
For right as a sowe wroteth in everich ordure, so wroteth she hir beautee in the stinkinge ordure of sinne.
His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade.
They sowe their Maiz twise a yere, to wit, in March and in Iune, and all in one and the same soyle.
And ye neede not to sowe your Wheate vntill March, and it will be ripe in the middest of August.
They sowe no more but that which they thinke will serue their turnes for sixe moneths, and that very scarcely.
Bot Ysis, as seith the Cronique, Fro Grece into Egipte cam, And sche thanne upon honde nam To teche hem forto sowe and eere, Which noman knew tofore there.
Take staves acre and beate it and sowe it in a linnen cloth and make a bagg noe bigger than a beane; if he can chow it in his mouth lett hym, if not then lay it upon his tongue.
I will make experience of them and I will know their vertues and operation and the Seedes wee will sowe at their time.
Consumptions sowe In hollow bones of man, strike their sharpe shinnes, And marre mens spurring.
Alas, our Places, The way of our Profession is against it; We are to Cure such sorrowes, not to sowe 'em.
Ere I leade this life long, Ile sowe nether stockes, and mend them too.
Latimer has exactly the same idea: "Oh, that our prelates would bee as diligent to sowe the corne of goode doctrine as Sathan is to sow Cockel and Darnel.
They doo sowe wheate, barlie, rye, and oates, and manie other kindes of graine; and the one and the other doo yeelde great increase.
Fabius suffered them whome he besieged, to sowe their fieldes, to the entente that thei should lacke the same corne, whiche they sowed.
King of Scotland: "If a sowe eate her pigges, let hyr be stoned to death and buried, that no man eate of hyr fleshe.
Florence of Worcester, who is considered to have used a superior copy of the Chronicle as the foundation of his work, says that Ethelfleda built an arx on the north bank of the Sowe in 914.
Who-so wole sowe a feeld plentivous, lat him first delivere it fro thornes, and kerve asunder with his hook the busshes and the fern, so that the corn may comen hevy of eres and of greynes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sowe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
