Monsanto said it would pay for medical and funeral expenses, and has temporarily stopped detasseling in its seed-corn fields in the surrounding region. ❋ Douglas Belkin (2011)
Demeter is this year's ripe crop and Persephone, the seed-corn taken from the parent. ❋ Donna Henes (2010)
So at their request we will be providing seed-corn for crops in time for the planting season which normally starts end of October. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a result, Pioneer's share of U.S. seed-corn sales has dropped to about 30% from 38% in 2000. ❋ Unknown (2008)
By the time the war was over, the wealth of nations had drained away: it had all been spent on armaments, which had been used to destroy the seed-corn of the future. ❋ Michael Allen (2005)
In the early morning he rode over to the first sowing of the rye, and to the oats, which were being carried to the stacks, and returning home at the time his wife and sister-in-law were getting up, he drank coffee with them and walked to the farm, where a new thrashing machine was to be set working to get ready the seed-corn. ❋ Unknown (2003)
'We always have dealt with Ateris, for iron, seed-corn, seasoned timbers, leather.' ❋ Gemmell, David (1995)
A glance around the loft where the child's bed stood yielded no sign of spare bedding -- the family was a poor one -- but after a moment he collected several sacks of peas and seed-corn from their lumpish white ranks along the far wall and stacked them up behind the little boy's shoulders, wadding the pillow in over them. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)
I had a farm near Purdol, but raiders wiped me out - took all my seed-corn and the winter food store. ❋ Gemmell, David (1986)
Profits are the primary source, the basic seed-corn if you like, of future wealth. ❋ Unknown (1976)
He showed that man, as an agriculturalist, became profoundly concerned with the annual life - cycle of vegetation upon which his food supply depended — with the drama implicit in the burying of the seed-corn in the earth, its germination, the upward surge of its new life in spring, its cutting down at harvest and transformation into food. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDON (1968)
A talent is like seed-corn, -- it bears within itself the power to break the confining walls and to spring upward to light, if only it be sown in proper soil, where the rain and the sunshine fall; but this is a truth which those who make education a business are slow to accept. ❋ J. L. Spalding (N/A)
Christian religion, -- in which they were long guarded in persecution as the seed-corn under the frost-bound earth in winter, to spring up afterwards when summer smiled upon the world, and yield a glorious harvest to all nations. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)
The harvest was carried, and, according to an old custom, the village held a thanksgiving service before the sowing of the seed-corn began; and, whilst all were generous to their relations, none showed greater hospitality than the worthy Hofbauer, who expected not only all his own connexions, but also those of his dead wife, to share in the annual jubilee. ❋ Various (N/A)
For instance, to Demeter a sow was offered, because that animal is apt to root up the seed-corn; to Dionysus a goat, on account of its being destructive to vineyards, &c. ❋ E.M. Berens (N/A)
Secretary Shaffer touched briefly on the weather of last summer, the acreage and yield of crops, the demonstration of the futility of trying to acclimatize Southern seed-corn in the North, and the appointment of a State entomologist. ❋ Various (N/A)
Newman and the order of Plymouth Court for the handful of seed-corn, which they cast upon the waters, which here took root and has brought forth the fruits of a sixty-fold growth. ❋ Various (N/A)
As we become conscious of ourselves only through communion with what is not ourselves, so we truly live only when we live for God and the world he creates, -- losing life that we may find it; dying, like seed-corn, that we may rise to a new and richer life. ❋ J. L. Spalding (N/A)
