seedtime

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To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2022

Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history.

From Time Magazine Archive

But a more sacred seedtime than all these is the procreation of children, and therefore Sophocles did well to call Aphrodite "fruitful Cytherea."

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard

But in the few precious weeks of seedtime, every day, every hour is of moment.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)

Overhead, the glorious procession, so regular and unfaltering, of the silent, unapproachable stars: below, in unfailing answer, the succession of spring and summer, autumn and winter, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, rain and drought.

From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)