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  • This was generally employed by the subordinate units of Division 367 to avenge a 'Sown' - a VIP, a cadreman or above - who was killed by the Americans in an air strike.

    Memorandum 1995

  • Sown in the ground, planted in the heart, each day it seems to grow a little more true.

    Marc Ian Barasch: Practicing 'Green Compassion': How Do You Stack Up? 2010

  • Dan Beaver, “‘Sown in Dishonour, Raised in Glory’: Death, Ritual and Social Organization in Northern Glouchestershire, 1590-1690” Social History 17 1992, 389-419.

    Brainstorming on Death Bardiac 2009

  • Sown too thickly it was soon learned when they sprouted thick as grass in the pot, extras were scooped up and planted around and about since we cannot bear to toss perfectly healthy plants.

    I Kale Your Name* « Fairegarden 2009

  • Sown from a package of mixed seeds, the zinnias send out a siren song to passing butterflies.

    Beware The Zinnias « Fairegarden 2008

  • Her peers probably have never even heard of "Don't Let the Sun Go Sown on Me."

    Daily Digest: Hillary Goes Viral (But Not The Good Viral) 2008

  • I only need to look into it to see what needs planted next, and once I've done this I either move the packet up into the next month, if I'll be sowing this particular variety again, or I'll put it at the very back, at the "Sown for year" divider.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Spinningfishwife 2008

  • I only need to look into it to see what needs planted next, and once I've done this I either move the packet up into the next month, if I'll be sowing this particular variety again, or I'll put it at the very back, at the "Sown for year" divider.

    Looking forwards to spring. Spinningfishwife 2008

  • So in Attica they say that King Erichthonius was born from the seed of Vulcan spilled on the ground; in Colchis and Boetia, the legend goes that the "Sown Men" came forth fully armed from the sowing of Dragon’s teeth; after they killed each other in mutual slaughter, only a few remained who helped Cadmus found Thebes.

    The Chicago Blog: An excerpt from The Birthday Book by Censorinus 2007

  • Sown on Good Friday, the plant itself would nullify wickedness.

    With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005

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