tilled land ready for seed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
MR. COLLIER'S anonymous annotator writes "tilled;" but surely this is a very artificial process to be performed by "spongy. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
The soil should be rich and light and never tilled before. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
The background faded into churning clouds and tilled fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Fergus Incident] Reference
Cherry street, all tilled with the wretched victims of tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
He tilled a field for her father and helped mend the stone wall. From Wordnik.com. [bluer scarce] Reference
Scheinberger, who tilled a weather beaten farm back in the hills. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather Hex] Reference
Fathers had tilled the soil, then laid aside the plough for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
Brazil was being tilled by slave labor long before the settlement of. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Fruit is usually two or three weeks later in tilled than in sod orchards. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
So compost must be finished and completely ripe when it was tilled in so that. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
There was silence, and the old man looked down at the dirt he had tilled by hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Vegetable Man] Reference
They passed by tilled fields in which green things were peeping through the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
So the entire legume must be tilled in if any net nitrogen gain is to be realized. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Poorly tilled fields behind the front premises terraced up the timber-capped hill. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
They tilled the ground and bore the yoke; the king and the aristocracy wielded the whip. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
And over the tillage, and the husbandmen, who tilled the ground, was Ezri the son of Chelub. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
The fields, which rarely exceed half an acre, and are generally very much less, are now tilled. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is claimed also -- but this is a disputed point -- that tilled fruit has a better quality and flavor. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
All around were lofty shores, fertile, well tilled, covered with verdurous trees and luxuriant vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
In these small fields cultivation is not practiced as in this country, but the land is tilled in narrow strips. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
These same humusless fields lose a lot more soil in the form of blowing dust clouds when tilled in a dryish state. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The lands susceptible of cultivation in the Danish islands are not all tilled, and those which are, might be improved. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Lazy farmers spread raw manure load by load as it came from the barn and tilled it in once the entire field was covered. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Shenandoah Valley, for example, have been tilled and grazed during about two and a half centuries 'occupation by white men. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
While my father carried on the manufacture of leather and worked at the trade himself, he owned and tilled considerable land. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
And every man tilled his land with peace, and the land of Juda yielded her increase, and the trees of the fields their fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
Fenced fields, tilled and untilled, checkered the slope, with here and there a white farmhouse with its group of outbuildings. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Two or three plants may thus be enabled to grow in a thoroughly tilled soil in the same space as only one could before tillage. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
The digestion of organic matter proceeds outside the soil; when finished product, humus, is ready for nitrification, it is tilled in. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Health and cheerfulness are gained by tilling the ground; yet the ground is not tilled for the purpose of securing health and cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
And though the soil of liberty has been tilled unevenly in the intervening years, that Constitution, that vision of civil government, still endures. From Wordnik.com. [Obenshain’s Thoughts on Constitution Day] Reference
It was early in the afternoon, and the full sunshine lay hot and strong upon the tilled and furrowed fields that stretched away as far as the eye could see on either side. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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