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Example sentences for "trenched"

Lexicographically close words:
tren; trenails; trench; trenchant; trenchantly; trencher; trenchers; trenches; trenching; trend
  1. Bostwick had no intention of divulging his personal affairs, but there was something in this that trenched upon "company" concerns.

  2. To the left a mighty chasm trenched the adamant, its bottom lowered away to depths of mysterious blue.

  3. The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank.

  4. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.

  5. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice.

  6. This trenched upon the Christian picture and was dismissed.

  7. The gateway was barricaded, and the road, which had been carefully trenched by the mutineers, was guarded by four guns.

  8. Havelock knew that he had yet to encounter stern resistance, and very soon found out that the crafty mutineers had trenched parts of the road, barricaded others, while every house was loopholed.

  9. The soil is trenched for wheat as for all crops except rice, not a weed is to be seen, and the whole country looks like a well-kept garden.

  10. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice.

  11. Whether it be trees or shrubs or climbing plants that we propose to plant, the ground should be deeply trenched and well manured, so that annual meddling about the roots may not be required.

  12. The ground having been trenched and manured some weeks previously, the roses should be carefully planted immediately on their arrival.

  13. In preparing a piece of ground for planting, it should, therefore, be trenched as deeply as possible, preferably to a depth of three feet.

  14. At times the Pope remonstrated against these abuses of the Holy Office, which trenched upon the papal claims.

  15. The regulation of affairs was placed in the hands of provincial assemblies acting under a supreme 'junta,' which passed laws relating to justice, and often trenched upon the privileges of the Cortes itself.

  16. The church would have tolerated him, had he not trenched upon ground dangerous to the hierarchy.

  17. After presenting the issues of the two amendments she trenched lightly on another topic still more offensive.

  18. But deep and good garden soils may be safely trenched and freely knocked about, because not only does the process favour the deep rooting of the plants, but it favours also that disintegration which is one of the causes of fertility.

  19. In the course of a month the whole piece should be trenched back.

  20. In the meantime, for other crops the land should be well trenched and limed, and generously tilled.

  21. Those who intend to sow during September in the open must get the trenched ground into perfect order early in the present month.

  22. Preparation of the ground should commence in the autumn and be continued through the winter, a heavy dressing of half-rotten stable manure being put on in the first instance, and trenched in two feet deep.

  23. To grow them to perfection the ground should be trenched in the previous autumn, where the soil is deep enough to justify the operation.

  24. The ground should be trenched and liberally enriched with rotten manure placed between the top and bottom spits, where the plants will reach it when they are most in need.

  25. It is permitted to think of the most ancient lands as deserts of barren rock and rock waste swept by rains and trenched by powerful streams.

  26. Indeed, the horizontal beds of the Hundes Valley have been trenched to the depth of nearly three thousand feet by the Sutlej River.

  27. Revived by the uplift, the streams of the area trenched it as deeply as its elevation permitted, and reaching grade, opened up wide valleys and new peneplains in the softer rocks.

  28. This basal wreck now appears as a rugged region about thirty miles in diameter, trenched by deep valleys and cut into sharp peaks and precipitous ridges.

  29. To grow them to perfection carrots require a deep, rich, sandy soil, which has been thoroughly trenched and manured the previous autumn.

  30. Let the ground be trenched two spits deep and left ridged up as long as possible.

  31. These sets should be planted as early as possible in the spring, preferably on land that has been manured and trenched in the fall.

  32. He sent me a check to cover the cost of the tickets and in the letter enclosed a small scarf pin which he said was sure to bring me luck.

  33. Oh, I want to see them suffer,' retorted Wendell.

  34. Holden, the Crimson captain, was probably the most dangerous of our opponents.

  35. Bring him over to the Stadium and let's see him kick.

  36. She tried to work out new plays, criticised the generalship occasionally, and fairly 'ate and slept' football during the months of October and November.

  37. The situation was disheartening but we still felt that we had a good chance of pulling through even without Cowan.

  38. Mr. Reichner then presented to the Child Samuel the souvenir sleeve links and a silver box containing the genuine soil from Yale Field.

  39. Macbeth has a purely physical dislike for Banquo's spirit and the 'twenty trenched gashes.

  40. In the banquet scene, while the first murderer gives account of what he has done, there comes a flash of truculent joy at the 'twenty trenched gashes' on Banquo's head.

  41. Beneath his frowning brow a shaft of fire, That told the lurking ire, Shot ever forth, outflashing through the gloom It could not well illume, Making the swarthy cheeks on which it fell Seem trenched with scarrèd lines of hate and hell.

  42. I never before heard you utter sentiments that trenched so closely upon harsh uncharitableness.

  43. The Anthracite basins lie on the right, enclosed by zigzag ridges of Pocono and Pottsville sandstone; the Plateau, trenched by the West Branch of the Susquehanna is in the northwest.

  44. The streams from the oldland have trenched their way across these deposits while the shore was rising.

  45. Map to show the cuestas which have played so important a part in fixing the boundaries of the Lake basins, and also the principal preglacial rivers by which they have been trenched (based upon a map by Grabau).

  46. Fray Juan's reveries, however, trenched on the borders of the Everlasting Gospel, although keeping within the bounds of orthodoxy.

  47. When the work of trenching the celery was being completed we trenched the pithy stuff on general principles, and because we had noticed a few good hearts in the huge bundles of stalks.

  48. At the same time I am inclined to think that trenched celery, if handled successfully, retains its flavour, and is much more appetising than that which is kept in cellars.


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