Example Sentences

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He knows, that, while men sleep, the enemy will be sowing tares.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various

By Gad, you'll have to exercise it, or, let me assure you, you will be sowing thorns for your children to reap.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

This will be interesting play to your children, and it will be sowing seed in fallow ground.

From A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler