Their farm was on the very edge of the swamp where the land became untillable unless you filled it in, one basket of earth at a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joust]

As here shown, they are very prolific and these hundred trees grown mainly on hillsides and untillable lands are furnishing Mr. Riehl with a very fair income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference

The Outer Nashville Basin in Kentucky contains untillable steep ridges and bluffs and cultivated terraces and floodplains along the meandering, downcutting Cumberland River.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)] Reference

Do they forget what created out wonderful country, aside from conquering the Native Americans and sticking these amazing beings on grounds undesirable and untillable grounds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Buchanan: Hispanic Immigrants Not Assimilating Into America Because They Embrace ‘Rap Culture’] Reference

Add to that the cultivation that has been destroyed, the soil that has been made untillable, the trees that have been cut down, the roads that have been torn up and the bridges that have been destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting France] Reference

Considerable as is the cultivation, it bears a very small proportion to the great extent of waste, and probably untillable land, untillable from the extreme thinness of the soil and its superabundant stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

The juncture was in a big, marshy, untillable flat, from which hills rose abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scattergood Baines] Reference

Paucity of arable land in mountain regions leads to the utilization of the untillable slopes for stock grazing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference

It was worth, perhaps, a few cents an acre; it was utterly untillable, almost inaccessible, and his gratulation owed its fervor only to its spiritual values.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895] Reference

He had long known that his father owned the greater part of the unproductive wilderness lying between the two ravines; the land was almost worthless by reason of the steep slants which rendered it utterly untillable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895] Reference

And for those who choose to keep untillable land in the program, there's a hitch: If they decide to sell later, they'll have to pay back seven years 'worth of tax savings - a bill that could amount to more than what they'd earn from the sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [kstp.com - MORE NEWS] Reference

Yet notwithstanding the merely nominal price of land, a large majority of these immigrants always remained too poor to become freeholders, squatting instead on barren, worn-out corners, or along rocky, untillable ridges; the convenience of having this docile, uncomplaining help within call being deemed a fair compensation for the equally superfluous wood and water they consumed.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Free Negroes of North Carolina"] Reference

He'd become useless, untillable soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem] Reference

Of the untillable and barren deep, "they were always within hearing of his magic song.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference

Of the untillable and barren deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference

And o'er the untillable and barren Deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference

This is desert, untillable, unprofitable, and unneeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]