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An improved British magnetic mine was announced, with news that big Bristol Beauforts and Handley Page Hampdens had been sowing them industriously for weeks in German harbors as far east as the Baltic.

From Time Magazine Archive

For twenty-five years after 1865 American politicians had been sowing the wind.

From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell

Men," replied Lorraine, "would merely shrug their shoulders; women would say you had been sowing your wild oats.

From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins

He had been sowing dissension in the camp from an early period.

From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John

Meissonier, by the haughtiness of his manner, his artistic independence, and most of all, by his unpardonable success, had been sowing dragons' teeth for half a century.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Hubbard, Elbert