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Meanings of fallow ground in English

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Usage of fallow ground in English
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Unknown, like a seed in fallow ground, was the germ of a plan
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
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Trump sees fallow ground here because, historically speaking, it has been.
NY Magazine
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Unemployed and uninterested children are fallow ground for the seeds of mischief and crime.
Library Work with Children
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None-did not the winds of heaven casually scatter many useful seeds in the fallow ground.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / With Strictures on Politi...
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The stony grey soil of Irish letters has historically proved fallow ground for science fiction.
The Irish Times
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The words of scripture are, "Break up your fallow ground."
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso...
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This will be interesting play to your children, and it will be sowing seed in fallow ground.
A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Dau...
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They were on fallow ground now, and the sun scorched them even worse than it had done before.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
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Along it, here and there, like kernels of seed scattered on fallow ground, a sprinkling of one-story houses.
Where the Trail Divides
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Why is man's heart compared to fallow ground, God's Word to a plough, and his ministers to ploughmen?
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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They all cross themselves devoutly at the close; but this instruction has fallen on fallow ground in the wee three-year-old.
Le Petit Nord / or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
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One day in April, a certain gentleman's groom, Roger by name, was walking his master's horses in some fallow ground.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
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I'm deeding the hundred acres of fallow ground between the north wall and the sea for an expansion of the town.
Oracle's Queen
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She was not compelled to break up the fallow ground, or be the first to drop the Seed into the soil.
Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission
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Small towns and villages are scattered over the plain, and herds of fine white cattle were seen grazing on the fallow ground.
Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, ...
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For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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