Careful Words

seed (n.)

seed (v.)

seed (adj.)

  I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Old Testament: Psalm xxxvii. 25.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree

I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.

I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 10.

  In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xi. 6.

  Blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Tertullian (160-240 a d): Apologeticus. c. 50.