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Example sentences for "virgin soil"

  • Planted in virgin soil, each shoot occupies, at first, a space of 20 English square feet.

  • From Bazarof Turgenef ascends still higher to Nezhdanof in "Virgin Soil," whose aggressive attitude is already unmistakable.

  • Select a piece of sloping land, so as to be well drained, on the north or northeast side of the hill--virgin soil if possible.

  • Just get a little plot of virgin soil, say six yards long by one yard wide and divide it into two equal lots.

  • It thrives only in virgin soil, and is very choice in its selection of a place to grow.

  • Again, Ginseng requires practically a virgin soil, and as China proper has been the home of teeming millions for thousands of years, one readily sees that necessary conditions for the plant hardly exist in that old and crowded country.

  • Browne, 1874; Virgin Soil, from the French, by T.

  • Another element of his work which is very finely revealed and brought to a rare point of characterisation in Virgin Soil, is the prophetic intention he had of the woman's part in the new order.

  • We find very curious instances of this in Turguenief's novel "Virgin Soil.

  • The land on the Caura, for the most part a virgin soil, is extremely fertile.

  • It was rash to uproot this fair bloom of the sheltered English garden and transplant it in virgin soil, swept by the rushing winds.

  • Yet Festing was ambitious and had abilities that sprang rather from character than technical knowledge, and now wondered whether he should leave the railroad and join the breakers of virgin soil.

  • Virgin soil is actually sold in the market; it may procure things that have value though it has none itself.

  • Things which cost no labour may have a price, but they have no value, and, as we have seen, he mentions among such things conscience and virgin soil.

  • It is commonly said that the leading character in "Virgin Soil," Solomin, is a failure because he is not exactly true to life, he is not typically Russian.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answered young; became convinced; ber die; commence firing; lesse then; looking north; lying down; many churches; perfect peace; prisoners were; set free; small glass; solid ground; spiritual guide; strange people; strange sight; turned again; used against; virgin areas; virgin forest; virgin soil; went immediately; what people; white male