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Example sentences for "wild oats"

  • But the formula is incomplete; it ought to read: "And likewise with the fruits of my wild oats.

  • These habitations are built of the straw of wild oats, interwoven through wattles or long sticks, and thatched with the same, and, whether from design or accident, are extremely picturesque.

  • Dozens of books come in to our house every week, from The Bittern, and for Wild Oats.

  • I know that she came to your husband entirely because she wanted to help to edit his magazine--Wild Oats.

  • This I know, that there are late crops of wild oats, as well as early harvests of them; and (from observation of self and neighbour) I have an idea that the avena fatua grows up to the very last days of the year.

  • Show me Mr. Washington's wild oats, I say--not a grain!

  • The whole country was overgrown with wild oats, many of the villages having been burned the year before; and in this shelter the wild animals had taken up their abode in very great numbers.

  • The United States has sown its wild oats.

  • He was content to remark to his doctor, that he thought the third generation of wild oats would be a pretty thin crop!

  • Sir Austin nodded and blinked sadly, exclaiming to his soul, "Wild oats!

  • Could anything, even mercifully, write "wild oats" over his heartlessness?

  • To my mind no young man need seek this "darker side of life" which the sowing of wild oats means.

  • Wild Oats," would not disgrace an author of much higher pretensions in dramatic writing than Mr. O'Keeffe.

  • Writers of fiction and others of a more serious trend of thought have recognized the sowing of wild oats as an institution which, if it does not merit the full approval of society's moral code, is, at least, tolerated.

  • On that day, Livius and I and a pretty, weak, childish young lady found our way to a private box at Drury Lane Theatre, just at the close of the first of Wild Oats.

  • I did not altogether like Elliston in Wild Oats.

  • Elliston plays in Wild Oats, but he will come to us between the acts, or after the play, I have no doubt.

  • And I happen to know that that demure little person down at your cottage has sown quite a sprinkling of wild oats.

  • Wild oats in a woman are a very different thing from wild oats in a man," remarked Eliot, pouring himself out a whisky.

  • She may have sown her little crop of wild oats if she likes.

  • Clubs, boomerangs, heaps of wild oats, with shells of the fresh-water mussel, and bones of fish.

  • I can see on some marshy patches a scattering of wild oats, and we may hope to find some of the feathered gluttons that feed on them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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