Unsown

The most extreme followers of this path would wear the most rudimentary, unsown clothes and basic sandals, and their only possession would be a wooden begging bowl. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

Note 133: PS 85; Proto-Bantu * - céd - "clean"; PNECB "land readied for planting"; PR "prepared but unsown land"; e.g., ❋ Unknown (2008)

This year, in Sitapur district, outside the state capital of Lucknow, swathes of farmland have been left unsown because of the drought. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This year, in Sitapur district, outside state capital Lucknow, vast swathes of farmland have been left unsown with only patches of grass and shrubs visible as many farmers decided not to plant any crop because of truant rains. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I remember the devotion of your youth, the love of your betrothal, how you were willing to follow me into the desert, through an unknown, unsown land. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So they upped anchor and headed south, leaving their wooden crosses, which soon rotted, their unsown fields, and their cattle. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

After this the earth shoots up from the sea, and it is green and fair, and the fields bear unsown, and gods and men shall be alive again, and sit in fair halls, and talk of old tales and the tidings that happened aforetime. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The three began at once to tell the astonished mother all their charming plans, and the family party gave themselves up to the pleasure of chatting and weaving a romance, in which it is so pleasant to enjoy future happiness, and to store the unsown harvest. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not less than four-fifths of the ground remain unsown; but as the quantity of Dhourra produced is, generally, sufficient not only for their own consumption, but also for the supply of others, they never think of making any provisions for increasing it, notwithstanding that when the inundation is not copious, or only partial (no one remembers its ever failing entirely), they suffer all the miseries of want. ❋ Unknown (2004)

You must make me boots that will wear for a year, neither losing shape nor coming unsown. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The greatest part of their arable land had been left unsown and without tillage, and the time of war allowing them no means or leisure to import provision from other countries, there was an extreme scarcity. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

The warnings and denunciations which only a few hours before, when Reuben May had uttered them, she had laughed to scorn as idle words, now rang in her ears like a fatal knell: the rope he had said would hang them all was then a sieve of unsown hemp, since sprung up, and now the fatal cord which dangled dangerously near. ❋ Various (N/A)

The fields were left unsown, flocks of sheep were deserted by their shepherds. ❋ Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne (N/A)

Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practise it resembles him who ploughs his land and leaves it unsown. ❋ Various (N/A)

And in no village ever after were the lands unplowed and the fields unsown, the cloth unspun and the coats not made, the roofs unthatched and the apple-trees unplanted. ❋ Padraic Colum (1926)

The mighty Harvester was on the unsown waste, and the multitude was fed! ❋ 1817-1893 (1922)

Where two slopes adjoin, such ploughing steepens the valley between them into a gully, which, being always unsown, makes a track through the crops when they are up. ❋ John Masefield (1922)