run to seed
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Intellectually, for various reasons, it had run to seed.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
The doctrine has run to seed, as it were, among this people.
From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
He had barely sat down before his clerk a thin, gray-haired man, high-nosed, with a look of breeding run to seed, came in, and closed the door behind him.
From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John
And these luxuriant fancies need pruning; hers is a fine nature run to seed for want of care and proper nurture.'
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
It was covered with high, coarse, prairie grass, and its occasional nodding clusters of prairie flowers run to seed.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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