Forcing Bed

Morocco should never become a forcing-bed of religious or racial antipathy, and will not so long as France continues to develop the country by methods which the natives can assimilate, and is not lured into over-exploitation of her mineral resources or unwarrantable interference with her spiritual affairs. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She lives in a forcing-bed of sensitiveness to moral distinctions, but the broad judgment that alone can guide and govern this sensitiveness she has not. ❋ Unknown (1898)

What I mean is, that the Irresponsible Journalist who gives more prominence to the doings of kings and queens and stupid 'society' folk, than to the actual work, thought, and progress of the nation at large, is making a forcing-bed for the growth of Anarchy. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

The fallen leaves of autumn form a forcing-bed for the coming spring; Nature, life, and history ever renew themselves through death. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)

Instead of a comic I found him a tragic spectacle; and his exuberant anticipations, his bursting hopes that fed their forcing-bed with the blight and decay of their predecessors, his transient fits of despair after a touch at my pulses, and exclamation of 'Oh, Richie, Richie, if only I had my boy up and well!' ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Cucumber, which was fully conscious of being a forcing-bed plant. ❋ Alfred Walter Bayes (1840)

a forcing-bed in which the seeds of sleeping vices waken into strength. ❋ John Henry Jowett (N/A)

a tragic spectacle; and his exuberant anticipations, his bursting hopes that fed their forcing-bed with the blight and decay of their predecessors, his transient fits of despair after a touch at my pulses, and exclamation of 'Oh, Richie, Richie, if only I had my boy up and well!' ❋ George Meredith (1868)