Rootage

This was to give the peas deep rootage, which is a point necessary for the quick and stable growth of this vegetable. ❋ Burbank L. Todd (N/A)

It had a pointed roof of some rough material, dull under the sun, and gave rootage in places to vines, even a small tree. ❋ Norton, Andre (1959)

After such fashion and with thorough rootage in country life must the minister of today turn to spiritual account the wealth-producing methods of farming. ❋ Allan Hoben (N/A)

This morainial deposit which offered rootage for the trees and bushes was but a narrow streak -- a sort of an island on the glacier. ❋ Roy Rockwood (N/A)

They have left their homes, they have left their kindred, they have broken all the nearest and dearest ties of human life in order to come to a new land, take a new rootage, begin a new life, and so by self-sacrifice express their confidence in a new principle; whereas, it cost us none of these things. ❋ Jasper Leonidas McBrien (N/A)

By this trained personality -- the heart that has been led to live with Christ awhile, and then go forth in his name and filled with his love to the hearts that have place for that love and rootage for that life -- this wonderful product of our Christian civilization has everywhere been produced. ❋ Various (N/A)

Springing from the twin rootage of Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence, his judicial statesmanship finds no parallel in the salient features of its achievement outside our own annals. ❋ Edward Samuel Corwin (1920)

In its occupations the island was as prosaic as Cape Cod, and lacked the far-reaching consciousness of the great world which is the possession of every populated sand-bar in the Western world; but it was enveloped in an atmosphere in which the edges of things were lost in a sense of their rootage in poetic relations, and of interrelations so elusive and immaterial that a delicate but persistent charm exhaled from them. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Yet it must be observed that even the stablest of them are essentially the creatures of the political leaders and that at no time have they exhibited the broadly national rootage of political parties in other states of western Europe. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)

Its flatiron-shaped pebble-beach jutted out from the lake's west shore and was covered with fine old forest trees garlanded with vines; and from their graveled rootage there gurgled a limpid spring of sweet waters. ❋ Phillips, Mary E (1912)

The first part is descriptive of the rootage and the preliminary life of the flower of love; the second part proclaims the all-enswathing atmosphere in which growth is rendered possible and sure. ❋ 1817-1893 (1910)

Likewise, we trace our criminal problems to their true rootage and treat them successfully only when we can understand causes from a broad and scientific viewpoint, seeing in the criminal a social unit not unified, a social factor not socialized, and an ethical possibility not realized. ❋ Unknown (1907)

A tired-out body offers a fertile rootage to all manner of mental ailments. ❋ 1817-1893 (1907)

When the conditions which produced the popular ballads become clear to the imagination, their depth of rootage, not only in the community life but in the community love, becomes also clear. ❋ George Wharton Edwards (1904)

The counties west of this, except those along the Cape Fear and Roanoke rivers, contained few spots in which slavery had planted itself with any considerable rootage. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The ideas which form the substance or substratum of the greatest books are not primarily the products of pure thought; they have a far deeper origin, and their immense power of enlightenment and enrichment lies in the depth of their rootage in the unconscious life of the race. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)

The rootage of literature in the spiritual nature and experience of the race is the fundamental fact not only in the history of this rich and splendid art, but in its relation to culture. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)

From this rootage flows the vitality which imparts immortality to its noblest products, and which supplies an educational element unrivalled in its enriching and enlarging quality. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)

I haven't colored said mall bangs and so, on top of the mall bangs, I am also sporting about 2 inches of grown in rootage with the occasional silver streak. ❋ Isis The Scientist [email protected] (2010)