Garden Mould

There were traces of his gore in that spot, and I covered them with garden-mould from the eye of men, and breathed more quietly again. ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (1903)

One cannot so much as put a spade into the garden-mould of one's cottage-garden without now and then finding ancient coins and shards of strange pottery; and for all that you know, the clue to some mystery that has puzzled mankind for ages may at this moment lie a few inches below your feet. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

Back and forth she went in the deepening twilight, her slender body strained to one side with the heavy water pail, until the garden-mould looked dark and wet. ❋ Unknown (1890)

It is one of those nooks where a few smoky sparrows twitter in smoky trees, as though they called to one another, "Let us play at country," and where a few feet of garden-mould and a few yards of gravel enable them to do that refreshing violence to their tiny understandings. ❋ Unknown (1870)

I select from my heap of garden-mould, that inexhaustible mine, two larvae of the Rhinoceros Beetle, Oryctes nasicornis, about one-third full-grown, so that their size may not be out of proportion to the ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

There were traces of his gore in that spot, and I covered them with garden-mould from the eye of man. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1861)

There is one worm, well known by name at least, though happily not to be met with every day, and that is the tape-worm, who establishes himself in the intestine of man, and lives on the chyme, as the other worm does on garden-mould. ❋ Jean Mac�� (1854)

It is one of those nooks where a few smoky sparrows twitter in smoky trees, as though they called to one another, 'Let us play at country,' and where a few feet of garden-mould and a few yards of gravel enable them to do that refreshing violence to their tiny understandings. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

The white dimity bed, and the walls, stained green, had something of the colouring and purity of effect of a snowdrop; while the floor, rubbed with a mixture that turned it into a rich dark brown, suggested the idea of the garden-mould out of which the snowdrop grows. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

They fhould be fown as foon as poffible after they are ripe, in alraoft any kind of garden-mould made fine. ❋ Unknown (1785)