1 I know it's awful hard work for break sod.
2 Sometimes Peter came to church at the sod schoolhouse.
3 Ambrosch, she said, was on the north quarter, breaking sod with the oxen.
4 'His sod corn will be good for fodder this winter,' said grandfather encouragingly.
5 Presently Ambrosch said sullenly in English: 'You take them ox tomorrow and try the sod plough.'
6 We were sixteen pupils at the sod schoolhouse, and we all came on horseback and brought our dinner.
7 It seemed as if the grass were about to run over them, and over the plum-patch behind the sod chicken-house.
8 He had a good baritone voice and always led the singing when we went to church services at the sod schoolhouse.
9 The rains had made channels of the wheel-ruts and washed them so deeply that the sod had never healed over them.
10 Grandmother wants to know if you can't go to the term of school that begins next week over at the sod schoolhouse.
11 As we rode up the draw, we skirted a big melon patch, and a garden where squashes and yellow cucumbers lay about on the sod.
12 When we had to borrow anything, or to send about word that there would be preaching at the sod schoolhouse, I was always the messenger.
13 A farmer in the county north of ours, when he was breaking sod, had turned up a metal stirrup of fine workmanship, and a sword with a Spanish inscription on the blade.
14 Ambrosch was a far-seeing fellow; he soon realized that his oxen were too heavy for any work except breaking sod, and he succeeded in selling them to a newly arrived German.
15 There were wooden houses where the old sod dwellings used to be, and little orchards, and big red barns; all this meant happy children, contented women, and men who saw their lives coming to a fortunate issue.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 16 The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.