Example Sentences

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The man held in his hand a trowel and was transplanting in the rich brown soil some tender green things which the woman was handing him from a basket.

From The Wall Between by Bassett, Sara Ware

While I was transplanting glands for sterility, other beneficial effects were noted by me as well as my patients.

From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard

The fame of his Grammar and other works might have come over the Atlantic while he was transplanting Greek roots in the hard heads of stupid boys.

From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Optic, Oliver

An hour later, Assunta, going to find a spade in the tool-house, for she was transplanting roses, came upon the Signorina's caller of yesterday standing near the tool-house with something in his hand.

From Daphne, an autumn pastoral by Sherwood, Margaret Pollock