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-- We speak against the fearful moral carnage; would to God that some unmistakable manifestation of the wrath of God should come in and put a stop to this huge seed-plot of national demoralization!

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis

"The earth may be looked at as a vast seed-plot of life, seen from the point of view of the Great Sower."

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

-- We speak against the fearful moral carnage; would to God that some unmistakable manifestation of the wrath of God should come in and put a stop to this huge seed-plot of national demoralization!

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

As we shall see, it became the very seed-plot of graver troubles.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

This place, the nest or seed-plot of the new civilisation, still shows its castles -- Blois,

Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911

It is impossible they should be wholly beautiful, as it is impossible that they should offer no foothold or seed-plot for beauty at all.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

The self-conscious fuss of their pedagogy is half-redeemed by the unconscious grace which called a school not a seed-plot of citizens, but merely a garden of children.

The Crimes of England 1905

But there was one point at which influences had centered which were to make New Jersey the seed-plot of

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

Pennsylvania had been the seed-plot of frontier emigration, and, although she passed on her settlers along the Great Valley into the west of Virginia and the Carolinas, yet the industrial society of these

The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896

They use the school as the seed-plot of the state, and inculcate conceptions there which the entire community endeavors later on to embody in acts and institutions.

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894