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Sentences ending with soil

I used the word "aromatic" in relation to the New England soil. [4]
The General's study, which was Hugh's now, was piled high with new and bulky books on cattle and cultivation of the soil. [9]
In their eyes was the livid lightning that searched in spasms of anger for its prey, while there swept over the brown, aching veld the flood which filled the spruits, which made the rivers seas, and ploughed fresh channels through the soil. [11]
But since there was no fixed law on the subject, and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assistance in electing Gen. Cass, he must say that they were behind the Whigs in their advocacy of the freedom of the soil. [7]
The Gaul's head was again found on Egyptian soil. [10]
It is utterly virgin soil. [5]
There is something very sweet and juvenile and innocent and pretty about these little tinsel vanities, these grave apings of monarchical fuss and feathers and ceremony, here on our ostentatiously democratic soil. [5]
How well I understand the feeling which led the Pisans to load their vessels with earth from the Holy Land, and fill the area of the Campo Santo with that sacred soil! [6]
She should walk under the frescoed vaults of palaces, until her colors deepened to those of Venetian beauties, and her forms were perfected into rivalry with the Greek marbles, and the east wind was out of her soil. [6]
Sophonisba's home was to have become his, and it had never entered his mind to limit the period of his enjoyment and study on the sacred soil. [10]

Short sentences using soil

The soil was congenial. [9]
Was it soil? [7]

Sentences containing soil two or more times

Yes, and the rocks are different, and the soil is different, and everything that comes out of the soil, from grass up to Indians, is different. [6]

More example sentences with the word soil in them

I don't ask you to vote at all--I only urge you to not soil yourself by voting for Blaine. [5]
Blood like yours would soil the executioner's axe. [10]
I am satisfied with Diodoros too; youth is a soil on which the physician reaps easy laurels. [10]
Beside the springs which there gushed from the soil of the desert grew green palm trees and thorny acacias. [10]
It was one which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus Ward. [5]
The art to which he had gained entrance by so severe a struggle, and on whose soil he had laboured diligently enough, proved, so far as outward recognition was concerned, cruel to the enthusiastic disciple. [10]
The amazed comment when the heir to the Chiltern fortune had returned to the soil of his ancestors had been revived on his arrival in Newport. [9]
And now, on what soil had the seed of maternal tenderness fallen? [10]
All this new vision of mine was for him, for the coming generation, the soil in which it must be sown, the Americans of the future. [9]
It is not very good soil, still I think she can grow enough for one table and I am in a position to select the table. [5]
It is no valid objection to this conclusion that animals suddenly supplied with an excess of food, or when grown very fat; and that most plants on sudden removal from very poor to very rich soil, are rendered more or less sterile. [1]
Upon what principle, upon what rightful principle, may a State, being no more than one fiftieth part of the nation in soil and population, break up the nation, and then coerce a proportionably large subdivision of itself in the most arbitrary way? [7]
You have to turn back to Shakespeare for any talk of peasants and clowns and shepherds to compare with the conversations in this novel, so racy are they of the soil, and yet so touched with the finest art, the enduring art. [4]
Whoever dared to transplant the heresy to her soil would be the most infamous of the corrupters of a nation, for the holy Church and the kingdom of Spain are one. [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]
We have seen to-day that every shade of popular opinion is represented here, with Freedom, or rather Free Soil, as the basis. [7]
Yet he spoke to me of his intention to offer himself to his country, and his blood must now be reckoned among the precious sacrifices which will make her soil sacred forever. [6]
It is pleasant to celebrate in this peaceful way, upon this old mother soil, the anniversary of an experiment which was born of war with this same land so long ago, and wrought out to a successful issue by the devotion of our ancestors. [5]
The soil is thin, the trees are slender, and one sees not much luxury or comfort. [4]
The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to pinyon pine growing out of rocky soil. [13]
He intimated that there would be a vacancy in this congressional district next year, that Grierson was going to resign, and that a man with a long purse who belonged to the soil might have a chance. [9]
As seeds in the womb of earth break from the brooding darkness, Or as the soul soars free, heaven-seeking from the grave, So the hopeless soil of a dungeon blossoms to rapture, Blooms with roses of Love, more sweet than the wildling rose! [10]
She felt that the very mention of them tended to soil the pure garments of her martyrdom. [9]
The soil of the University town is divided into patches of sandy and of clayey ground. [6]
She thought of the tilled fields in Goshen which, after having borne an abundant harvest, remained arid and bare till the moisture of the river came to soften the soil and quicken the seed which it had received. [10]
You must leave the soil of Egypt. [10]
The character of the people conformed in many ways to that of the soil. [4]
I am for the good old times, when no one who cared for his life dared set foot on Egyptian soil. [10]
Who loves alike the furrowed soil, The music-haunted streams! [6]
This results from the fact that they are truer to the substance of things, to universal human nature, while the French seem to be in great part an imitation, having root neither in the soil of France nor Attica. [4]
When dispatching Balashev, the Emperor repeated to him the words that he would not make peace so long as a single armed enemy remained on Russian soil and told him to transmit those words to Napoleon. [2]
The soil of the boiler deck was thin and rocky, but good enough for grazing purposes. [5]
Our Emperor joined the army to encourage it to defend every inch of Russian soil and not to retreat. [2]
The same thing that took place in Moscow had happened in all the towns and villages on Russian soil beginning with Smolensk, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his broadsheets. [2]
Then it is that many young natures, having exhausted the spiritual soil round them of all it contains of the elements they demand, wither away, undeveloped and uncolored, unless they are transplanted. [6]
When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. [5]
It is true that he went beyond the majority of them, but into a region which they regarded as preeminently safe,--a region the soil of which was traditional. [9]
If the labor that has been expended here, only to erect platforms for the soil to rest on, had been given to our country, it would have built half a dozen Pacific railways, and cut a canal through the Isthmus. [4]
I am told that abundant and rank weeds are signs of a rich soil; but I have noticed that a thin, poor soil grows little but weeds. [4]
There is no sufficient flavor of humanity in the soil out of which we grow. [6]
You love to stroll round among the graves that crowd each other in the thickly peopled soil of that breezy summit. [6]
He lays much stress, in the case of plants, on the nature of the soil. [1]
In the border States, so called,--in fact, the middle States,--there are those who favor a policy which they call "armed neutrality"; that is, an arming of those States to prevent the Union forces passing one way, or the disunion the other, over their soil. [7]
The trees are stakes; the grass is of no color; and the bare soil is not brown with a healthful brown; life has gone out of it. [4]
These are dished spaces where the soil has been scraped off and the coral exposed and glazed with hard whitewash. [5]
Knowledge is the soil, and intuitions are the flowers which grow up out of it. [4]
The warm volcanic soil of the sheltered plain makes it a paradise of fruits and flowers. [4]
Picardy, on whose soil has been shed so much English blood, never was more beautiful than on that October day. [9]
It is charmingly situated on a projecting point of gray rocks veined with color, enlivened by touches of scarlet bushes and brilliant flowers planted in little spots of soil, contrasting with the evergreen shrubs. [4]
The tombs are set in soil brought in ships from the Holy Land ages ago. [5]
Probably no other sentiment is, so strong in a man as that of attachment to his own soil and people, a sub-sentiment always remaining, whatever new and unbreakable attachments he may form. [4]
I laid the seed in the soil, with others that I bought over there in Thebes; no one knows where it came from, and yet it is my own. [10]
He may have said them the time that he tried to tempt her to soil her honor, but after that he mentions her usually with a sneer. [5]
True, it is said that to live in foreign lands, far from the beloved home, darkens the existence; yet Pergamus, too, is Grecian soil, and there I see the two noblest of stars illumine your path with their pure light-art and love. [10]
His father had resolved to obtain on the sacred soil of Palestine the mercy of Heaven which was denied to the excommunicated Emperor, and desired his oldest son, Rudolph, to represent him at home. [10]
The soil was removed, and there lay the rasped and guttered track which the ancient glacier had made as it moved along upon its slow and tedious journey. [5]
I see no reason why our northern soil is not as prolific as that of the tropics, and will not produce as many crops in the year. [4]
And you who read this an hundred years hence may not believe the marvels of it to the pioneer, and in particular to one born and bred in the scanty, hard soil of the mountains. [9]
He had already reached the last bend of the path he had followed down the ravine, and he saw at his feet the long narrow valley and the gleaming waters of the stream, which here fertilized the soil of the desert. [10]
The opportunity thus presented itself of turning into a blessing the primeval curse of tilling the soil, in this instance not with a hoe, but with a pen. [4]
Not even the poorest crops would grow in soil so hostile to life, and those who chose it for a home were compelled to bring even the drinking-water from the continent. [10]
There is great pleasure in turning out the brown-jacketed fellows into the sunshine of a royal September day, and seeing them glisten as they lie thickly strewn on the warm soil. [4]
There it is pleasant enough, for a spring bedews the stony soil and there, as wherever any moisture touches the desert, aromatic plants thrive, and umbrageous bushes grow. [10]
For his dear Philip, too, nothing could be better than a transplantation into other soil. [10]
There is a perpetual metempsychosis of thought, and the knowledge of to-day finds a soil in the forgotten facts of yesterday. [3]
He slaughtered the people, laid waste their soil, and razed their cities to the ground. [5]
All the distinguished people in the capital have gathered on the sacred soil of the Temple of Poseidon. [10]
The message of peace was laughed to scorn; and how much blood was shed to feed the soil of the realm in many and many a fight! [10]
Beside the road only the blood-red soil betrayed the sites of powdered villages; and through it, in every direction, trenches had been cut. [9]
Aelia rose up on the very soil where their ruined Jerusalem had stood, and the statues of which you speak stand in their holy places. [10]
He fell armed on the soil of his home at the time when I was most gratefully rejoicing in the signs of returning health--the year 1863. [10]
The captain was on the bow, expatiating to a crowd of listeners on the fertility of the soil and the salubrity of the climate. [4]
That first night on French soil was a stirring one. [5]
The mighty scourge of war did speedily pass away, for it was given him to witness the surrender of the Rebel army and the fall of their capital, and the starry flag that he loved waving in triumph over the national soil. [7]
They are racy of the soil. [5]
As a lover of the soil of Canada he is not surpassed by any of the other citizens of the country, English or otherwise. [11]
The great variety of the local institutions in the States, springing from differences in the soil, differences in the face of the country, and in the climate, are bonds of Union. [7]
Not a foot of soil is to be seen anywhere, and the water is apparently growing deeper and deeper, for it reaches up to the branches of the largest trees. [5]
I reminded them of my tortures in Genoa, Milan, Como; of my declaration that I would suffer no more on Italian soil. [5]
You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen! [2]
The bricklayer's mortar of his father's calling stuck to his fingers through life, but only as the soil he turned with his ploughshare clung to the fingers of Burns. [6]
Here were evidences of cultivation--a rare sight in this country--an acre or two of rich soil studded with last season's dead corn-stalks of the thickness of your thumb and very wide apart. [5]
This simple tale of ancient times had sprung from the Thuringian soil, so rich in legends, and, little as it might satisfy the etymologist, it delighted me. [10]
Well, the soil of a city is cemented all over, one may say, with certain qualifications of course. [6]
Something--what, I know not, keeps the violet rooted to the soil. [10]
Moor's zechins were not yet exhausted, and he was sure of the assistance of the "word" upon the sacred soil of Italy. [10]
The soil was not ours, and Congress did not annex or attempt to annex it. [7]
The sun is no longer a burning enemy, but a friend, illuminating all the open space, and warming the mellow soil. [4]
This book will never be published--in fact it couldn't be, because it would be felony to soil the mails with it, for it has much Holy Scripture in it of the kind that . [5]
Phineas Arms martial name--was long since dust, and even the mortal part of the great Captain Moses Rice had been absorbed in the soil and passed perhaps with the sap up into the old but still blooming apple-trees. [4]
Cottages of this model may be seen in Lancashire, for instance, always with the same honest, homely look, as if their roofs acknowledged their relationship to the soil out of which they sprung. [6]
This soil the miners ripped and tore and trenched and harried and disembowled, and made it yield up its immense treasure. [5]
Send us your measurements,--(certified by the postmaster, to avoid possible imposition,)--circumference five feet from soil, length of line from bough-end to bough-end, and we will see what can be done for you. [6]
You remember telling me, the day after the Baltimore mob in April, 1861, that it would crush all Union feeling in Maryland for me to attempt bringing troops over Maryland soil to Washington. [7]
It seems to me, I said, that the great additions which have been made by realism to the territory of literature consist largely in swampy, malarious, ill-smelling patches of soil which had previously been left to reptiles and vermin. [6]
Still the soil may have been undermined, or I may have grown heavier. [6]
But the vaccine matter is one of those substances called morbid poisons, of which it is a peculiar character to multiply themselves, when introduced into the system, as a seed does in the soil. [3]
The "Free Soil" mart in claiming that name indirectly attempts a deception, by implying that Whigs were not Free Soil men. [7]
Once again they made the attempt to reach English soil. [11]
A true issue made by the President would be about as follows: "I say the soil was ours, on which the first blood was shed; there are those who say it was not. [7]

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