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

He sometimes took a holiday with them; and even entered for a time into some of their frolics, when his seedtime and harvest were finished: he was quite fit to keep his own with them.

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by M'Combie, William

Heno was said to gather the clouds and pour out the warm rain; he was the patron of husbandry, and was invoked at seedtime and harvest.

From The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices by Anonymous

Few men have cast the bread upon greater waters, have sown the seed over a wider area, or had to mourn more sadly over those heart-breaking months which intervene between the seedtime and the harvest.

From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by Gilmour, James