The seed unwittingly sown by their thoughtless parents was sure to bring its harvest sooner or later.
He has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind," remarked the father; "he chose the wrong path instead of the right, and no one is blamable beside himself.
These facts and experiences, gleaned, like handfuls of grain, from a wide field, show the character both of the seed sown and the harvest reaped, from the sowing.
To him the world was a field to be sown with the seed of the Kingdom, and opportunities were eagerly embraced for widely disseminating the truth.
He then told some startling facts as to seedsown many years before, but even now yielding fruit in answer to prayer.
But that which is true of the one who has sown the seeds of wrong in his younger years is just as true of him who has sown good seeds in his childhood and youth.
The alliance based on half measures has not fulfilled its own purpose, but it has sown suspicion between the honest men whom it brought together; that is no good result from the practical proposal.
In the early years the ground is prepared and the seed sown for the splendid period of full development.
If the plate is not too thickly sown with the bacteria, the colonies will continue to grow and increase in size, and as they do, minute differences will begin to appear.
Suffer me, then, to say a few words on the good seed which he hassown in our hearts.
They are sown in the world; the good which grows up after them is never, in outward form, like the truth which came from the actual source.
A blue mantle, sown with silver stars, was flung around him, but so glittering to the eye that it seemed a portion of the milky way he had torn from heaven, as he passed along, and wrapped round his angelic form.
Neither was corn at all plentiful throughout the parish, in part because they had sown no winter crops, and in part because the summer crops did not prosper.
However, my barley, whereof I had sownabout three bushels out on the common, shot up bravely.
Think you that good seed sown will bring forth bitter fruit?
Few are aware how much evil seed is being sown among the young everywhere through the medium of vile books.
It resembles good seed sown in the cultivated soil, which expands, and grows, and produces fruit.
It may be presumed that the religion of Anna was by no means of recent date, but that the seeds of so rich a harvest were sown "in the fields of youth.
The seed which is sown in the field of benevolence will bear some fruit and help to swell the harvest.
In her heart was deposited the first seed that was sown in this new field of labour, in which so rich and extensive a harvest has since sprung up.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Schemes of retirement sown In youth, and mid the busy world kept pure As when their earliest flowers of hope were blown, Must perish;--how can they this blight endure?
Burns, he was a man who preached from the text of his own errors; and whose wisdom, beautiful as a flower that might have risen from seed sown from above, was in fact a scion from the root of personal suffering.
Remember what England might have been with an Administration countenancing French Doctrines at the dawn of the French Revolution, and suffering them, as it advanced, to be sown with every wind that came across the Channel!
During the first years of tyranny, is reaped the harvest sown during the last years of liberty.
The first fruits which are reaped under a bad system often spring from seed sown under a good one.
Que la Terreur soit à l'ordre du jour (having sown the wind, come let us reap the whirlwind).
The country newspapers of those days were sown with notes of admiration, as reports of English election speeches are studded with "cheers" in brackets.
Ceuta is a hot bed of crime, the seed is sown there, nourished and developed to bear baleful fruit afterwards.
Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed, and, if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession.
Can you think of fields Greater than Gods could till, more blue than night Sown over with the stars; and delicate With filmy nets of foam that come and go?
THE INDIA WHARF HERE in the velvet stillness The widesown fields fall to the faint horizon, Sleeping in starlight.
They have sown rice and maize at Mamohela, but cannot trade now where they got so much ivory before.
Rice sown on 19th October was in ear in seventy days.
Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these greensown fields.
The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.
They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.
AND ALL SEEDS SOWN IN THE FLESH SHALL RIPEN WITH THY YEARS.
For, in fact, these heretics, supported by the Emperor of the East, had driven the patriarch Athanasius from his episcopate, and sown trouble and confusion among the Christians of Alexandria.
I have sown pleasure in my footsteps, and I am celebrated for that all over the world.
One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of violet velvet sown with bees, with hats a la Henri IV.
Know thou that the Ancient Light and the Manifest Beauty (God) hath sown seeds in the soil of existence and hath irrigated it through His spiritual bounties.
Consider the seed which was sown by Christ; verily, it did not blossom until after a long period.
When thou wert present at Acca, the seeds of the love of God were sown in thy heart, through the power of the Spirit.
Our life is a seed sown to rise again in the world to come, when it will be renewed by Christ in immortal light.
The seed of Christianity had been first sown at Benevento by St. Potin, who is said to have been sent thither by St. Peter, and is looked upon as the first bishop of this see.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
