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  • He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts,   (source)
    cultivated = where crops are gown
  • he'll begin to cultivate his patch of land, and then your cherry orchard will be happy, rich, splendid.   (source)
    cultivate = make land suitable for growing plants
  • From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.   (source)
    cultivate = enhance growth or development of
  • And that cultivates deceit, for I don't tell them I'm awake—O no!   (source)
    cultivates = enhances development of
  • It was the only open and cultivated field for a great distance on either side of the road,   (source)
    cultivated = developed (able to grow crops)
  • He planted them day and night, and cultivated them.†   (source)
  • Dad said the hills around Welch were too steep for cultivating much of anything.†   (source)
  • There was no use trying to reason with a person who was cultivating one long oily hair on her lip.†   (source)
  • Finally, through intense indoctrination, beatings, and desensitization, its army cultivated and celebrated extreme brutality in its soldiers.†   (source)
  • Now that they had left the cultivated fields behind them, it was almost impossible to find food.†   (source)
  • She stared at his forehead, with the cultivated blankness she had once used on Mr. Erskine, and I saw we were in for trouble.†   (source)
  • The dogs' attention spans were long now and they began to show rare, unnameable talents, which Edgar cultivated for hours in lieu of being in the house.†   (source)
  • Even though their condominium has only a tiny garden, they have managed to cultivate an enviable cornucopia of figs, pomegranates, sweet lemons, and herbs.†   (source)
  • It's cultivated, not very precious.†   (source)
  • That independence won Walter some measure of respect and admiration, but it also cultivated contempt and suspicion, especially outside of Monroeville's black community.†   (source)
  • Ron had lowered his leaflet on jobs in the Cultivated Fungus Trade and was watching the conversation warily.†   (source)
  • I wondered if it was something she'd actually cultivated deliberately.†   (source)
  • Due to the preponderance of such agricultural methods in the cultivation of illegal substances, we order you to cease and desist immediately….†   (source)
  • He was the first person in America to cultivate water chestnuts on any considerable scale, having planted fifty acres of them in a former rice paddy south of Savannah.†   (source)
  • For six months, Dodgson had patiently cultivated this man, who had grown more obnoxious and arrogant with each meeting.†   (source)
  • I just kept quiet; I was cultivating my Canadian friendships, and most of my friends thought that Trudeau could do no wrong, that he was a prince.†   (source)
  • Once the old chemicals have leached from the ground, he talks of cleaning the ponds and raising catfish and giant prawns, of cultivating fancy vegetables on the organic strip, charging premium prices in "Lutz's Corner" of the Hy-Vee.†   (source)
  • What marvels does science cultivate here now?†   (source)
  • I went through a period of obsessively cultivating rare corpse flowers.†   (source)
  • But friendships were not easy to cultivate.†   (source)
  • She had always been prone to jealousy, rage, and bitter hatred, but now she had fuel for all three to last a lifetime, and she cultivated them until— Abandoning herself to her wrath, she slipped into her mother's dressing room.†   (source)
  • Successfully growing crops in Hab with cultivated soil.†   (source)
  • At first my mother tried to cultivate some hidden genius in me.†   (source)
  • Working in the yard is Ralph's favorite activity; he likes to weed, to plant, to cultivate.†   (source)
  • Gerald spends most of his time in his vegetable garden, his nails permanently blackened from his careful cultivation of lettuce and herbs.†   (source)
  • I cultivated it, you know?†   (source)
  • He was gallant and cultivated; he recited verses and poems while making love to them.†   (source)
  • The titles were near as long as books themselves: Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the Manufacture of Wool, and the Cultivation and Manufacture of Flax, by John Wily, or Cato Major, Or His Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes, by M. T. Cicero, or Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, and countless tracts containing sermons and advice.†   (source)
  • The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the Church's enemies relied no less upon the Old Boy to keep the human mind enthralled.†   (source)
  • For information about Gey's pre-HeLa cell culture work, see G. O. Gey, "Studies on the Cultivation of Human Tissue Outside the Body," Wisconsin JJ.†   (source)
  • And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!†   (source)
  • Again he laughed —a big man's laugh, rich and rough and at odds with his carefully cultivated voice.†   (source)
  • Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snow's greenhouse.†   (source)
  • He makes up for it by cultivating a tougher image.†   (source)
  • It's important to cultivate detachment.†   (source)
  • Before long the countryside began to change as cultivated fields yielded to wilder land.†   (source)
  • Learning how to blend in and go undercover, I cultivated my inner jazz musician and grew a goatee.†   (source)
  • "We're cultivating the soil, sister," he said.†   (source)
  • I cultivated my beard and extended my ears.†   (source)
  • I'd never seen him so completely freed of that carefully cultivated facade.†   (source)
  • Painfully, I made the two hundred yards to a flat field which had been cultivated and recently harvested.†   (source)
  • During his recuperation Olmsted ordered bulbs and plants for cultivation in two large nurseries established on the fairgrounds.†   (source)
  • His voice reminded me a little of Willem's, deep, cultivated, the German with only a trace of Dutch accent.†   (source)
  • As a poet, I did not cultivate directness.†   (source)
  • The skills cultivated by these people were passed down in secret from one generation to the next and manifested themselves two thousand years later, in Europe, among the kabbalistic sorcerers, ba'al shems, masters of the divine name.†   (source)
  • They were all Hitler majors, members of the only class I still taught, Advanced Nazism, three hours a week, restricted to qualified seniors, a course of study designed to cultivate historical perspective, theoretical rigor and mature insight into the continuing mass appeal of fascist tyranny, with special emphasis on parades, rallies and uniforms, three credits, written reports.†   (source)
  • He began to cultivate his corpulence and general physical dilapidation.†   (source)
  • They insisted the plants were new to them and that they cultivated them as research, for the blossoms.†   (source)
  • Doesn't take to cultivation.†   (source)
  • She was impressed by its simplicity and seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.†   (source)
  • I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.†   (source)
  • I have a good ear for recognizing styles in music, and I cultivated that.†   (source)
  • I intend to stay and cultivate it and see if I can get something to grow.†   (source)
  • Most importantly, we demonstrated to the world that if students were reared in humane, cultivated environments, it was possible for them to grow to be as sensitive and intelligent as any ordinary human being.†   (source)
  • The most respected men, in accordance with the ethos that had evolved on San Piedro, pursued no one and cultivated radio silence.†   (source)
  • Politics The undesirability of cultivating extremes is also expressed in Aristotle's view of society.†   (source)
  • But since you want to appear cultivated, you must do it like this.†   (source)
  • Farmer had cultivated him.†   (source)
  • Someone at the botanical gardens in Uppsala would later confirm that it was a plant seldom cultivated in Sweden.†   (source)
  • Cultivation stopped.†   (source)
  • I hear myself speaking in the voice I cultivated as an initiation instructor, but this time I use it in jest.†   (source)
  • Instead, she had met and married Herb, a college classmate of her oldest brother, Glenn; actually, since the two families lived within twenty miles of each other, she had long known him by sight, but the Clutters, plain farm people, were not on visiting terms with the well-to-do and cultivated Foxes.†   (source)
  • In any case, Alex had cultivated a persona on the job, one that was there to give offenders an equal voice in the legal system, without letting clients get under her skin.†   (source)
  • There was genuine empathy in her eyes and in her demeanor, but there was also the cultivated wariness of the Iranian woman.†   (source)
  • And because the taste for obscenity is universal and the appetite for reality rare and hard to cultivate, he had nearly perished in the basement of his private life.†   (source)
  • A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.†   (source)
  • New friendships, faulty ground to cultivate and build a future upon.†   (source)
  • Not many tourists visit Mount Elgon, so Monet and his friend were probably driving the only vehicle on the road, although there would have been crowds of people walking on foot, villagers who cultivate small farms on the lower slopes of the mountain.†   (source)
  • Luma encouraged—or perhaps demanded—that her younger sister, Inam, cultivate self-sufficiency, often against Inam's own instincts or wishes.†   (source)
  • Hazel sat nibbling and biting, the rich, full taste of the cultivated roots filling him with a wave of pleasure.†   (source)
  • You and I may do what we choose about cultivating the girl's mind—she'll marry a man of her own class, and there it will end.†   (source)
  • He'd already begun the cultivation of cotton here and he would have been pleased to see the success it has made.†   (source)
  • "Are there places like this in Sounis," asked Sophos, "where there aren't enough people to farm the cultivated land?"†   (source)
  • "He's got his own fancies to cultivate.†   (source)
  • Often the members work together, cultivating one family's field one day and another's the next time.†   (source)
  • Marocchino also cultivated a close relationship with news correspondents by wining and dining them during their stay in Mogadishu.†   (source)
  • And it requires cultivating.†   (source)
  • My mother, like Ashley, has always cultivated the family dramatic streak, started by my grandmother, who at important family gatherings liked to fake horrible incidents if she felt she was not getting enough attention.†   (source)
  • We were told it had similar terrain to Dajai, a model area where peasants cultivated fruit trees and crops in rocky mountainous conditions.†   (source)
  • He was in his late sixties, with salt-and-pepper hair and a mustache as clipped and cultivated as the vowels he'd inherited from the private British colonial school he'd attended as boy with Musharraf and many of Pakistan's other future leaders.†   (source)
  • He had the shaggy appearance of a hippie, a look he cultivated after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • A drive along two-lane Route 83 in the 1930's of Harlon's youth would reveal a flat, lush land dominated by small farms, large cultivated fields, and the occasional town of 1,000 to 2,000 people.†   (source)
  • "The mushrooms are elf-cultivated," Father said.†   (source)
  • I couldn't sing either, but I would cultivate what Merman had, or try: force of personality.†   (source)
  • We cultivated it with our children.†   (source)
  • Marcos maintained that his niece's gift could be a source of income and a good opportunity for him to cultivate his own clairvoyance.†   (source)
  • He did it by cultivating boredom.†   (source)
  • They cultivated that land with rice, cotton, taro, and kitchen crops.†   (source)
  • Every day I reclaimed from the rocky soil of the hill a few more feet of earth to cultivate.†   (source)
  • Fourth, it was a sign of her originality, which she consciously cultivated.†   (source)
  • Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life in this her thirtieth year was to cultivate a kind of madness within, to perform the mad dance of Shiva, to mimic the rigid masking smile of Shiva, to rock and sway and flap six arms and six legs to an inner tune, a tabla beat.†   (source)
  • When that didn't work, she stressed the tax deduction angle, and—because she had worked hard to cultivate contacts with tax and estate lawyers throughout the South—she often received items before other libraries even found out about them.†   (source)
  • Kara had suggested he try to find a way to cultivate those in the green forest, as he had his fighting skills.†   (source)
  • While the tzaddik cared for the conduct of the world, for the obtaining of heavenly grace, and especially for Israel's preservation and glorification, his adherents had to cultivate three kinds of virtues.†   (source)
  • I did my best to cultivate belief but could only come up with what Alan Watts once called a "belief in belief.†   (source)
  • "We judge through cultivating scientific objectivity," he said with a voice that had a smile in it, and suddenly I saw the hospital machine, felt as though locked in again.†   (source)
  • The region is well-cultivated, with very attractive plantations, but all their occupants had fled and all the houses had been or were being plundered and destroyed.†   (source)
  • … As to your concern that I would lie to you and take your money, let me assure you I don't cultivate enemies like you and the network your blackbird obviously controls any more than I would make enemies of my clients.†   (source)
  • Why cultivate a garden with only one plant in it?†   (source)
  • Is her mind betraying her, cultivating delusion like a hothouse orchid?†   (source)
  • A blunt broad-shouldered knight who shaved his chin but cultivated thick black side-whiskers that framed his homely face like hedgerows, Ser Albar was a younger version of his father.†   (source)
  • After a mile or so I reached cultivated land, with the house in sight across three or four fields.†   (source)
  • They are punished for their virtue while the rest of the species cultivates and rewards its very worst traits.†   (source)
  • Born a brunette, she dyed her hair and began cultivating the "dumb blonde" persona that became her calling card.†   (source)
  • Not without going along way inland, and that would take us into cultivated land and main roads; and I wouldn't know the way.†   (source)
  • Dapper, cultivated, and acerbic, a leather briefcase tucked under his arm, he is a familiar figure on Broadway as the theater critic for New York magazine.†   (source)
  • 'Cultivate good speech, Miss Simpson,' she'd say, 'and you can marry above yourself.'†   (source)
  • I could parachute you into County Limerick this very day, Mr. McLean, and it is very likely that within a single year you'd be cultivating potatoes, courting an ugly Irish wench, and running guns for the IRA.†   (source)
  • A smart man would know how to use all of this-how to cultivate it, shape it, perhaps even control it to a certain degree-to spur it on and forward.†   (source)
  • It is the case that I have not been a man who has cultivated the relations that would make such a homecoming full and sanguine and joyous, and if anything occurs to me it is deep-felt gratitude to Liv Crawford and to Renny Banerjee as well, not only for the work and the ride home and the help with my things, but for the simple fact that they are present, walking the floors, pulling knobs, speaking and moving and filling the house with the most pleasing, ordinary reports.†   (source)
  • Nicolo asked just before dawn, as they began to walk southward through the cultivated valley twenty or thirty kilometers in length.†   (source)
  • Beyond this lay the fields, the clear cultivated land bordered by the forest.†   (source)
  • Germany is fertile, cultivated and populous.†   (source)
  • How do you know so much about this—what, Immortal Blossom—if its cultivation is limited to the Eden Colony?†   (source)
  • There was an open valley below him, partly cultivated, then a long bare rise to the Union line.†   (source)
  • His only weapons against her were silence, truculence; he cultivated an occasional brooding intensity.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, they were direct carry-overs from the five undoubtedly formative years he had spent as a regular panelist on "It's a Wise Child," when, rather than seem to flaunt his somewhat preposterous ability to quote, instantaneously and, usually, verbatim, almost anything he had ever read, or even listened to, with genuine interest, he cultivated a habit of furrowing his brow and appearing to stall for time, the way the other children on the program did.†   (source)
  • I will cultivate virtue.†   (source)
  • He had cultivated this deafness for as many years as he had been married to Auntie.†   (source)
  • Every word in this letter was true, if rash; but Gilbert had carefully cultivated this candor in Napoleon.†   (source)
  • The fields were cultivated, and goats and sheep grazed peacefully behind fences.†   (source)
  • There was always work to do, whether it was cultivating, plowing, breaking in new crop land, or tilling the spring-thawed garden.†   (source)
  • He had cultivated the habit of leaving his .†   (source)
  • Then in his soft and cultivated voice he said: "Are you ready to go?"†   (source)
  • Tried to cultivate a faith in the literal truth of everything he wrote, even the idiocies and contradictions.†   (source)
  • My father tried to cultivate Malinowski, but Malinowski detested my father.†   (source)
  • I cultivate this beard not for the usual given reasons of skin trouble or pain of shaving, nor for the secret purpose of covering a weak chin, but as pure unblushing decoration, much as a peacock finds pleasure in his tail.†   (source)
  • It was time to give her up and start cultivating ladies.†   (source)
  • In the first place this family has stayed out of politics and cultivated its own garden for over a hundred years — I see no reason for you to break that fine record.†   (source)
  • "Cultivating my own gardens," said Sam.†   (source)
  • He had a small still back in the farthest reaches of the place, on Mrs. McIntyre's land to be sure, but on land that she only owned and did not cultivate, on idle land that was not doing anybody any good.†   (source)
  • Listening is an art to be cultivated; and the symphonies of the desert or the forest demand a finer ear than do the symphonies of the composers.†   (source)
  • The Gromekos were cultivated, hospitable, and great connoisseurs and lovers of music.†   (source)
  • …which always peculiarly depressed him: mean little homes, and other inexplicably new and substantial, set too close together for any satisfying rural privacy or use, too far, too shapelessly apart to have adherence as any kind of community; mean little pieces of ill-cultivated land behind them, and alongside the road, between them, trash and slash and broken sheds and rained-out billboards: he passed a late, late streetcar, no passengers aboard, far out near the end of its run.†   (source)
  • I'll cultivate my mind some other time.†   (source)
  • His own social circles in Boston—the rich, the cultivated and the influential—all turned against him.†   (source)
  • Did he dream of making her disloyal to that hopelessness that he saw very well she'd been cultivating down here?†   (source)
  • Powell found him charging through the rock garden of his desert home vigorously destroying desert flowers under the impression that he was cultivating, and conducting simultaneous conversations with a score of depressed people who followed him about like puppies.†   (source)
  • Between the huts were irregular patches of ill-cultivated mealies, and pumpkin vines trailed everywhere through plants and bushes and up over the walls and roofs, with the big amber-colored pumpkins scattered among the leaves.†   (source)
  • They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.   (source)
  • I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.   (source)
  • the land was cultivated.   (source)
    cultivated = ready for growing crops
  • It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.   (source)
    cultivated = with plants cared for by humans
  • Simon watches Lydia as she glides across the room; she has that oiled walk they cultivate.†   (source)
  • I have not thought about cultivation since Before.†   (source)
  • This is the logic the reformers applied to the cultivation of young minds.†   (source)
  • Is this the attitude you wish to cultivate in the rest of the Re'lar?†   (source)
  • They do, however, claim that we are not cultivated and refined to the same extent.†   (source)
  • The idea was not to cultivate the meaningless.†   (source)
  • As his greed increased he also began to cultivate the land on which the roofleaf grew.†   (source)
  • They can only cultivate potential that is already there.†   (source)
  • He sees cultivated cactus on both sides.†   (source)
  • You must cultivate ecological, literacy among the people.†   (source)
  • Consider, for a change, that this is a moment to be not feared but cultivated.†   (source)
  • How did this curse come to me, when it's God's own will to cultivate the soil!"†   (source)
  • Your work, your war work, is to cultivate your talent, and go in the direction it demands.†   (source)
  • I don't like this business with Mother," Bee said in a voice of cultivated distress.†   (source)
  • Sullen, irritable, he cultivated his hatred of Darlene.†   (source)
  • Lareau calls the middle-class parenting style "concerted cultivation."†   (source)
  • The fairy tale genre was passionately cultivated by the Romantics.†   (source)
  • "You deliberately cultivate this air, this bravura," she charged.†   (source)
  • And he stays, cultivating me like a small inheritance of land where his future resides.†   (source)
  • These are key characteristics of the strategy of concerted cultivation.†   (source)
  • But in practical terms, concerted cultivation has enormous advantages.†   (source)
  • His parents believe in concerted cultivation.†   (source)
  • His childhood was the embodiment of concerted cultivation.†   (source)
  • Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years.†   (source)
  • Then there is the cultivation of the being.†   (source)
  • The ground was fertile but too rough to cultivate and too dry.†   (source)
  • Before nasty humans cultivated us, we were wild.†   (source)
  • It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.†   (source)
  • It was all part of that professional manner she cultivated: I'm capable.†   (source)
  • Hardship is wonderful for cultivating power.†   (source)
  • He had built up a well-oiled network cultivated with equal portions of carrot and stick.†   (source)
  • Most of us, I think, shy away from this kind of cultivation of acquaintances.†   (source)
  • Genuine, rich coffee ground from beans cultivated on Roarke's plantation in South America.†   (source)
  • They cultivate a plant-like growth that they milk for its sap.†   (source)
  • He also lived out a fantasy that he had probably cultivated since childhood.†   (source)
  • Dad never seemed to cultivate his leadership.†   (source)
  • We have planted, cultivated, and protected the grasses on our land primarily for ducks.†   (source)
  • Beyond the bridge, the world opened before us with vast stretches of cultivated land.†   (source)
  • Over and over, she accused him of things only a mind as cultivated as his would think up and do.†   (source)
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