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

Let me think.—It was ten years, counting by seedtime and harvest, before Andr� spent that winter with me.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

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

But the rest wander over vast deserts, knowing neither ploughtime nor seedtime; but living in cold and frost, and feeding like great beasts.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke