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During all these dangers the men lived on the bananas that they found growing by the river side, some of which the Indians had sown, and others floated down and self-planted during the inundations.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

But he was Lewis Rand, the product and effect of causes inherited and self-planted, and his passion, rising suddenly, mastered him with a giant's grip.

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

The untended, the self-planted, self-defended from the foe, Sea-gray, children-nurturing olive tree that here delights to grow, None may take nor touch nor harm it, headstrong youth nor age grown bold.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen

Corn, mostly self-planted, grows right up to the trenches.

From “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Keene, Louis

The work had spread to Philadelphia, and, self-planted in Maryland under the preaching of Robert Strawbridge, was propagating itself rapidly in that peculiarly congenial soil.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey