What is "sowers"

Usage examples of "sowers".

And for a moment it was almost as if Mathieu with the sweep of his arm not only cast the seed of expected corn into the furrows, but also sowed those dear children, casting them here and there without cessation, so that a whole nation of little sowers should spring up and finish populating the world.

Henceforth you are to be sowers as well as reapers, and your field is the world.

V Ah, what a dawn of splendour, when her sowers Went forth and bent the necks of populations And of their terrors and humiliations Wove her the starry wreath that earthward lowers Now in the figure of a burning yoke!

Karaleenos Ehleenee had been sowers and reapers rather than herders, had never been previously subdued.