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- verb obsolete Past participle of
sow
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Examples
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In that contree, and in many other bezonde that, and also in manye on this half, men putten in werke the sede of cotoun: and thei sowen it every zeer, and than growthe it in smale trees, that beren cotoun.
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It were a gode contree to sowen inne thristelle and breres and broom and thornes; and for no other thing is it not good.
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The Ginger groweth in this wise: the land is tilled and sowen, and the herbe is like to Panizzo, and the roote is the ginger.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And then he declared how contrary to that sowing, Mahomet had sowen seed, which brought foorth euill fruit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In that contree, and in many other bezonde that, and also in manye on this half, men putten in werke the sede of cotoun: and thei sowen it every zeer, and than growthe it in smale trees, that beren cotoun.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Iland containeth 17 leagues in length, and the land lieth high in forme of a ridge of sowen lande in some part of England, and in the midst of the sayd place standeth a round hill called Pico Deteithe, situated in this sort.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I haue sowen the seede, and other men haue gathered the haruest: I haue trauailed both by lande and by water full many a time with a sorrowfull heart, aswell for the safegarde of their goods as yours, how to frame all things to the best, and they haue reaped the fruites of my trauaile.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It were a gode contree to sowen inne thristelle and breres and broom and thornes; and for no other thing is it not good.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then sayd the Accuser: Thou hast sayd and openly taught that the GOD which we worshyp, is but bread, sowen of corne, growyng of the earth, baked of mens handes, and nothyng els.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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At his first comming ouer he soiourned in colledges of cathedrall churches, and in abbeies, addicting himselfe to lucre & wantonnesse, reaping where he had not sowen.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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