seed-basket

"A man must plow his field of life deep, Betty, but if a woman didn't trudge 'longside with her hoe and seed-basket, what would the harvest be?"

Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

I asked, with the greatest dignity, as I threw the seed-basket and my hat on the ground and picked up my rusty old hoe, ready for business.

Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

Grandmother Nelson that was planted deep in my disposition, ready to spring up and bear fruit as soon as I was brought in direct acquaintance with a seed-basket and a garden hoe?

Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

Let us have nothing in the seed-basket that cannot be termed what Jesus called "The word of the kingdom."

Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Thomas Champness 1868

It has fruited, but the fruit is green and scanty, not ripened, as it ought to be, since it grows under such a sky and was taken out of such a seed-basket as our seed has come from.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

Does his carrying the seed-basket at one time make it impossible that he shall come with flail and threshing-oxen at another?

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

He lays aside the plough when it has done its work, and takes up the seed-basket, and, in different ways, sows different seeds, scattering some broadcast, and dropping others carefully, grain by grain, into their place -- 'dibbling' it in, as we should say.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

We have a notion that it would be well if the seed-basket were left at home for a while, and some one were to take hold of the plough.

Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Thomas Champness 1868

Seed in a seed-basket is not in its right place; but sown broadcast over the field, it will be waving wheat in a month or two.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

It will be sad to stand with hands empty then, because they were idle in the days of the seed-basket and the reaping-hook, whilst those that sowed and those that reaped shall rejoice together.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868