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Sentences ending with plant

Will it measure the fluttering leaf by the same standard as the firmly-rooted plant? [10]
For years we sold them steel billets from which to make their plates, and three months ago they serve notice on us that they are getting ready to make their own billets, they buy mines north of the lakes and are building their plant. [9]
Against the flushed sky above the city were silhouetted the high chimneys of the power plant. [9]
I'll ask my secretary what I paid for that plant. [9]
No seed, no plant. [5]
You know the plant. [10]
On the slopes of the many-colored rocks, which surrounded the sandy valley, grew no blade of grass nor smallest plant. [10]
The drums grew louder, the pressure from the rear was relaxed, the throng in Faber Street began a retreat in the direction of the power plant. [9]
Once to the listeners Confucius said: 'The great mountain must crumble; the strong beam must break; the wise man must wither away like a plant. [11]
Presently the news leaked abroad that Mr. Anthony Stewart, the brig's owner, had himself paid the duty on the detested plant. [9]

Sentences containing plant two or more times

Dr. Hockiu gave us a ghastly curiosity--a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck--a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high. [5]

More example sentences with the word plant in them

Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
When you plant, you think you cannot fertilize too much: when you get the bills for the manure, you think you cannot fertilize too little. [4]
The spray of yellow wall-flowers on her breast had been cut from the blooming plant in the window of her room, and Barbara had helped arrange her thick hair. [10]
My Egyptian mistress will be delighted, for she is very fond of flowers, and may I ask you to tell the king and the Achaemenidae, that under my care this rare plant has at last flowered? [10]
A young farmer was urged to set out some apple-trees.--No, said he, they are too long growing, and I don't want to plant for other people. [6]
My first thought was to fire at his head; to plant the ball between his eyes: but this is a dangerous experiment. [4]
Phil knew the voice, and said with a faint smile: "Do you think they'd plant me with municipal honours--honours to pardners? [11]
These are the unerring guides, who have pointed out to me in Darius a plant, that will one day wax into a mighty tree. [10]
It was almost too much for the poor geranium on which it fell, and it looked at one minute as if the roots would be laid bare, and perhaps the whole plant be washed out of the soil in which it was planted. [6]
This plant belongs to the heath family, and is first cousin to the blueberry and cranberry. [4]
I half resolved to plant them a little late, so that they would, and they would n't. [4]
Her art seemed to him to grow under his eyes like a wonderful plant, and the quiet, reserved man expressed his delight so unequivocally that the Emperor beckoned to him and asked his opinion of the singer's performance. [10]
It is easy to grind out the song, but to plant these bristling points which make it was the painful task of time. [6]
I had always thought of the hawthorn as a pretty shrub, growing in hedges; as big as a currant bush or a barberry bush, or some humble plant of that character. [6]
The fact is, there is a spirit of moral perversity in the plant, which makes it grow the more, the more it is interfered with. [4]
On his path there grew a little plant with a reddish blossom. [10]
By and by the stony foot of the great University will plant itself on this whole territory, and the private recollections which clung so tenaciously and fondly to the place and its habitations will have died with those who cherished them. [6]
Further indulgence in the plant results in death, but rarely does an animal recover from even one eating of the insane weed. [4]
When we get the new settlement house we'll have a plant as up-to-date as any church in the country. [9]
There grows upon the deserts and the cattle ranges of the Rockies a plant of the leguminosae family, with a purple blossom, which is called the 'loco'. [4]
The smell of the burning stubble, of decaying plant and fibre, was mingling with the odours of the orchards and the balsams of the forest. [11]
How is it that in barren sandy ground This little plant so sweet a gift has found? [10]
The grass was tall there, and the blade of the plant is very much like grass, only thicker and glossier. [6]
The smoking shell spun like a top between him and the prostrate adjutant, near a wormwood plant between the field and the meadow. [2]
It has remained so to this day: they must travel together, hoe, and plant, and plough, and reap, and sell their public together, or there's no result. [5]
She had discovered salutary sap in many a human plant that had at first seemed absolutely poisonous; where she had shrunk from touching such impurity, violets and lilies had bloomed amidst the mire. [10]
All about us rose gigantic masses, crags, and ramparts of bare and dreary rock, with not a vestige or semblance of plant or tree or flower anywhere, or glimpse of any creature that had life. [5]
This plant took root only in a heart filled with love And his? [10]
But, anyway, he reared the plant after she watered the seed. [5]
Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she, in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head, suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow. [2]
Yet it was precise and hugely expert too; for though there was a strange mist on the brain, the body felt its way with a singular certainty, as might some molluscan dweller of the sea, sensitive like a plant, intuitive like an animal. [11]
Do you ever plant things here? [12]
There's been a plant of the worst kind. [11]
She brought the plant from Quebec. [11]
He talked of Pentaur as usual, and then stood still before a noble shrub with broad leaves, and said, My son is like this plant, which has grown up close to me, and I know not how. [10]
He was to paint here, where he could scarcely distinguish one plant from another, or make out the form of the vases which stood round the bed of death. [10]
At table we overheard Kurt say to Karl: "Little Hermy's present for grandmother was not a bad idea," to which Karl answered quickly: "I am going to put away some of my nuts to-morrow, and plant them in the spring. [10]
I seize the opportunity to throw away frivolities, to say something to plant the seed, and make all better than when I came. [5]
When spring came on, the soldiers found a plant just showing out of the ground that looked like asparagus, which, for some reason, they called "Mashka's sweet root. [2]
There are billions of money in this enterprise, no expensive plant is required, and I shall begin to realize in a few days--in a few weeks at furthest. [5]
In this prospect of famine, the two Indians, Kemps and Tussore, who had been kept fettered while showing the whites how to plant the fields, were turned loose; but they were unwilling to depart from such congenial company. [4]
Not a plant, not a creeping thing, showed itself against the weird forms of the barren grey and brown rocks, and no soaring bird tempted the oppressed wretches to raise their eyes to heaven. [10]
Moreover, there was no plant, no flower, no cry of any animal in the woods which was not familiar to the Abbess Kunigunde. [10]
And does not Nature plant me as an eye to behold her beauties while she is dressed in the glories of leaf and flower, and draw the icy lid over my shining surface when she stands naked and ashamed in the poverty of winter? [6]
If I had my capital free I could plant it for millions. [5]
As a next move, I paid a private visit to that old cave of Merlin's--not the small one--the big one--" "Yes, the one where we secretly established our first great electric plant when I was projecting a miracle. [5]
And as that miracle hadn't become necessary then, I thought it might be a good idea to utilize the plant now. [5]
Now, can we, mindful of the blessings of liberty which the early men of Illinois left to us, refuse a like privilege to the free men who seek to plant Freedom's banner on our Western outposts? [7]
Let her plant Medicis and build grand monuments over them to testify how gratefully she was wont to lick the hand that scourged her. [5]
It seemed to me that nobody could object to potatoes (a most useful vegetable); and I began to plant them freely. [4]
In men's hearts love is commonly extinguished when pity begins, while admiration acts like sunshine on the budding plant of a woman's inclination, and pity is the glory which radiates from her heart. [10]
A few years later she donated the Publishing Society, along with its real estate, its buildings, its plant, its publications, and its money--the whole worth twenty--two thousand dollars, and free of debt--to--Well, to the Mother-Church! [5]
I do not know that we ever apply to a plant any element which is not a natural constituent of the vegetable structure, except perhaps externally, for the accidental purpose of killing parasites. [3]
Every plant got its share: the proudest lily bent beneath the gentle shower; the lowliest daisy held its little face up for baptism. [6]
Many people shut it out of their houses as if it were an enemy, watch its descent upon the carpet as if it were only a thief of color, and plant trees to shut it away from the mouldering house. [4]
But the plant is poisonous, or, rather, to speak exactly, it is a weed of insanity. [4]
Now a man is not a plant, or, at least, he is a very curious one, for he carries his soil in his stomach, which is a kind--of portable flower-pot, and he grows round it, instead of out of it. [3]
He had the intense perception of a delicate plant, those wonderful warnings which only come to those who live close to nature, who study from feeling the thousand moods and tenses of living vegetables and animal life. [11]
We bury decay in the earth; we plant in it the perishing; we feed it with offensive refuse: but nothing grows out of it that is not clean; it gives us back life and beauty for our rubbish. [4]
I had no idea, until recently, how generally this simple and thrifty plant is feared and hated. [4]
They well understood how to mark out neat flower-beds, plant groups of trees and shrubs in regular order, water the whole by aqueducts and fountains, arrange arbors and summerhouses, and even inclose the walks with artistically clipped hedges, and breed goldfish in stone basins. [10]
Why grudge an hour, a month, a year, To plant my ladder and to gain the round That leads my footsteps to the heaven of fame, Where waits the wreath my sleepless midnights won? [6]
I plant and hoe a hill of corn: it grows green and stout, and waves its broad leaves high in the air, and is months in perfecting itself, and then yields us not enough for a dinner. [4]
Dickinson can put his hand on the capital, and I--I have already bought a tract on the lakes, at Bolivar, I have already got a plant designed with the latest modern machinery. [9]
For the King himselfe will make his owne robes, shooes, bowes, arrowes, pots, plant, hunt, or doe any thing so well as the rest. [4]
She thrusts up her plants with a vigor and freedom that I admire; and the more worthless the plant, the more rapid and splendid its growth. [4]
Both she and her mistress showed her as much attention as the gardener bestows upon a wild plant which he has transferred to good soil, where it thrives under his care. [10]
It was to have a spring at the head of my bed, connecting with a wire, which should run to a torpedo which I would plant over night in the ashes of the fireplace. [4]
He is rather handsome, as bugs go, but utterly dastardly, in that he gnaws the stem of the plant close to the ground, and ruins it without any apparent advantage to himself. [4]
The plant which grows from the seed you place in the earth may be crushed, but no power in the world will compel the seed to develop differently or produce fruit unlike what Nature has assigned to it. [10]
I dig the ground, and plant things that are to live and grow. [12]
It looks a good deal like grease-wood, and is the ugliest plant that was ever conceived of. [5]
Why don't you get that lady off from Battle Monument and plant a terrapin in her place? [6]
I had to get it across to him there was a lot of dead wood in this plant, I had to wake him up to the fact that the twentieth century was here. [9]
To banish it from life is to deprive the plant of blossoms, the rose of its fragrance, the sky of its stars. [10]
So Kuni had found one heart which kept its whole treasure of love for her alone, one creature who could not do without her, one fragile human plant to which she could be useful and helpful day and night. [10]
He was making for the rock, thinking he could plant his feet upon it and at the worst hold the boat until he could summon other help by shouting. [6]
Raleigh was not easily discouraged; he was determined to plant his colony, and to send relief to the handful of men that Grenville had left on Roanoke Island. [4]
To control and culture a strong, thrifty plant in this way is like steering a ship under full headway, or driving a locomotive with your hand on the lever, or pulling the reins over a fast horse when his blood and tail are up. [4]
If the mind comes into consciousness with a good set of moulds derived by "traduction," as Dryden called it, from a good ancestry, it may be all very well to give the counsel to the youth to plant himself on his instincts. [6]
If I see, clearly see, that ladder leading from plant to man, why should I suppose it breaks off at me and does not go farther and farther? [2]
Now if we can get you to help plant him--" "Preach the funeral discourse? [5]
After this they brought him a bagge of gunpowder, which they carefully preserved till the next spring, to plant as they did their corne, because they would be acquainted with the nature of that seede. [4]
He, who had been guided by no kind hand and felt miserable and at variance with himself, had long been ceaselessly troubled by the problem of how the young human plant could be trained to harmony with itself and to sturdy industry. [10]
I shall even be permitted to win a few skirmishes: the secret forces will even wait for me to plant and sow, and show my full hand, before they come on in heavy and determined assault. [4]
Now to go back to our plant. [6]
Suppose, now, an arrow were to strike him, and this plant, which would hurt him, were laid on the burning wound instead of this other, which would do him good--that would be very sad. [10]
The sandy streets, and the gardens of flower and shade, heavy with the plant odors; and the great houses with their galleries and porticos set in the midst of the gardens, that I remember staring at wistfully. [9]
Idle and shiftless and evil ye are, while the earth cries out to give you of its plenty, a great harvest from a little seed, if ye will but dig and plant, and plough and sow and reap, and lend your backs to toil. [11]
The fruit is also said to be good; but that does not matter so much, as the plant does not often bear in this region. [4]
It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. [5]
The sage-brush is a singularly hardy plant, and grows right in the midst of deep sand, and among barren rocks, where nothing else in the vegetable world would try to grow, except "bunch-grass. [5]
Or is it a plant that requires tender care and the water of self-sacrifice? [9]
If you clear a patch of fertile ground in the forest, uproot the stumps, and plant it, year after year, in potatoes and maize, you say you have subdued it. [4]
Do thou pluck a maniple--that is an handful--of the plant called Maidenhair, and make a syrup therewith as I have shewed thee. [3]
We'll fetch you a little one and you plant it in the corner over there, and raise it. [5]
Every plant has a distinct character of its own. [4]

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