| 单词 | tilled |
| 例句 | A tilled, fertilized, watered, weeded garden provides growing conditions very different from those on a dry, unfertilized hillside. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Since time before time our family has tilled this field,” he tells me proudly and many times over. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z She invited James over to hang out, and as they walked up her stairwell, her apartment tilled with skateboard thunder and Matthew chanting Flush lyrics. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In a universe tilled with stars rushing helter-skelter in all directions, there was no place that was “at rest,” no framework from which to view the universe that was superior to any other framework. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Once cows, horses, and other large mammals were domesticated, they were hitched to plows, and fields were tilled by animal power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If she had died, if Odenigbo and Baby and Ugwu had died, the bunker would still smell like a freshly tilled farm and the sun would still rise and the crickets would still hop around. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They had cleared brush, tilled the abandoned fields, and leveled the overgrown fencerows. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Jeanne’s speech was broad and flat like the fields her people tilled. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z "Ah, those days in which he tilled his mighty fields, those days in which he watched the crops take hold and grow, those youthful, summery, sun-bright days . . ." Barbee's voice sighed off in nostalgia. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Papá tilled the soil with the tractor while Trampita and I pulled out weeds. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She invited James over to hang out, and as they walked up her stairwell, her apartment tilled with skateboard thunder and Matthew chanting Flush lyrics. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He had emptied the vessel which life had tilled for him and found the emptying meaningless. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z True, my husband did not own the land he tilled, as my father had done; yet the possibility was there that he might one day do so. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I investigate the newly tilled soil downstairs in the future garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Every time Papá tilled the furrows, more mud clods bubbled up, leaving the ground coarse and uneven again. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z An incessant buzzing of helicopters tilled the twilight. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Like my mountain, the tilled land eroded and grew stones, not crops, and the farms were abandoned. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She climbed high and fast over the tilled field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The land was tilled and the first crop planted in time for the pale light of spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead, fields were always tilled by hand-held sticks or hoes, and seeds were planted individually by hand and not scattered as whole handfuls. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z About her grandmother Ajarry who’d been kidnapped from her family in Africa and tilled a small corner of land, the only thing to call her own. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The cities were spacious and elegant, the fields well tilled and fertile. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the walls of Isengard there still were acres tilled by the slaves of Saruman; but most of the valley had become a wilderness of weeds and thorns. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They left a son in the dark earth of Colorado, crushed into the tilled earth by a spilled tractor. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was as black as tilled soil. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In keeping with Rodríguez-Gerada’s mission to work in harmony with the environment, the soil and sand will be tilled into the ground in November as a part of the National Park Service’s turf restoration. National Portrait Gallery installation will transform tons of sand and soil on the Mall With over a hundred-year history in America, Sikhs have tilled farming lands, founded companies, driven cabs, healed patients, served meals, created technologies. My life in a turban 2012-09-11T00:00:00Z Who were those forebears who tilled the land for decades, seemingly without complaint? A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The clover stays put in winter, protecting the soil against erosion, and is tilled under in spring. Dealing with a glut of weeds A decision, Edward Kurtz, 86, whose Mennonite grandparents once owned and tilled the now 36 vacant acres where Penn National plans to build, says is troubling. Pennsylvania is rolling the dice with a casino in the heart of Amish Country 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z And she considers the land’s sumptuous beauty deceptive, for she is certain that death lingers underfoot, the deaths of slaves who tilled and built the land. Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The rich volcanic and glacial soil deposits of the Willamette Valley are irrigated by a splendid river system and tilled by farmers who raise everything from goats to hazelnuts. Meet the foodies who are changing the way Americans eat 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z We salute the workers we pass, and Bebeto describes a tilled terrace as a “work of art.” Cape Verde gets its moment in the sun 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z It can be spread fresh on a fall garden to break down over the winter and then be tilled under. Why manure rules in the garden 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z I often think about how these ancient gardens must have sustained the friars who tilled them, body and soul, and kept them safe from the perils outside the walls. In medieval monastery gardens, an uplifting model for something we could all use: Refuge 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Even after the mere two weeks necessary to germinate and terminate emergent weeds, the darkness-loving earthworms will have come up to the surface, tunneled the upper layer and, in effect, tilled it for you. If pulling weeds makes you want to pull your hair out, there’s a simple solution 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z He’s made the same journey across the Black Belt before, so-called for the dark soil tilled by dark hands on the plantations. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z Win left no record of what she was thinking or feeling that weekend as the others tilled the garden while the children napped in a hammock. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z For as I wrote, it seems I tilled the soil in my brain until two ancient shards of overheard conversation rose to the surface like shiny objects demanding my attention: Not exactly bedtime stories: My father, the Holocaust and a moment of bravery he’ll never forget 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Fishermen cast their nets from wooden pirogues, and farmers tilled the furrowed plots along the riverbank. Along the Niger River, the Beat of the Sahel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Set on land long tilled by Black farmers, a cluster of headstones was visible from the narrow country road. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z There’s also the favorable climate, the nutrient-rich soil tilled by livestock and never treated with fertilizer, and the meticulous pruning and care throughout the year. The Best Olive Oil in the World? This Village Thinks So. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z McCulloch grants that traditional writing has tilled these fields before, and she does not deny that relatively old-school techniques—vocabulary, syntax—can load sentences with the exquisite inflections of conversation. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z We had an avenue, but it was full of potholes; there was a gatehouse, but another couple lived there; we had lots of fields, but they weren't all stocked or tilled. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z In 1974, the year Hank Aaron broke Ruth’s career home run record, Robert Creamer published a biography rich in earthy detail tilled from interviews with men who’d played with him. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Soon the convent gardens would be tilled under and planted with lettuces and herbs that could withstand the late frosts. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z They are inadvertently planting attraction in your freshly tilled emotional seedbed. How to survive the death of a loved one 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Yet Elgar's music is much bigger than the wee lumps of the Malverns, and it has greater elemental impact than the tilled fields of Worcestershire. Beyond the Malverns: Elgar in the Amazon 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z White portrait busts of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, altered with nails and soil, remind us that Jefferson owned and employed slaves in his blacksmith shop, while Washington’s enslaved labor tilled his tobacco plantation. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z But even more I thought of Edward Albee and the way his plays have tilled the cultural soil for a wider acceptance of the dreamlike reality of this living art form. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The remainder of these images, about three inches square and topped by the proper astrological sign, are set outdoors in scenes geometricized by hedges, dense woods, tilled fields or buildings. Religious Miniature and Nature Drawings at the Morgan 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z On islands like Santorini — where the sandy, volcanic soils were first planted by the Phoenicians and have been tilled for nearly 3,500 years — vintners are able to work with antique varietals long forgotten elsewhere. A New Generation of Mediterranean Wines 2010-07-21T10:15:00Z The march he helped lead tilled the ground for the passage of federal civil rights and voting rights legislation in the next few years. After years of erasure, Black queer leaders rise to prominence in Congress and activism 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z In their wake were precise lines of tilled earth, each drawn by the slice and turn of the plough. Following the plough: A snapshot of a disappearing skill 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z At age 68, he believes hip-hop culture tilled the ground for the election of the first Black American president in 2008. Hip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z He is a third-generation farmer, taking on land that his grandfather once tilled. Tulare Lake’s ghostly rebirth brings wonder — and hardship. Inside a community's resilience 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z “The hope is that the kids will learn to respect nature and the environment,” Kim said, inspecting the newly tilled dirt where corn and sweet potatoes will be planted. One sign of South Korea's population crisis: Rural elementary schools are running out of children 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z As more land at home has been tilled to grow corn for ethanol, commodity prices have gone up worldwide. Despite what you may think, ethanol isn’t dead yet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z On a recent Sunday, children rode bicycles on new dirt paths, women tilled soil for gardens and men pulled tarps onto shelters. If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Have you ever noticed that meadows and forests grow merrily without being tilled, amended or fertilized? Stress less: Gardening made easier with hügelkultur | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Lark said prairies and grasslands are being converted to acres of corn that have to be tilled and have their soil disrupted on an annual basis. Midwestern leaders want to sell ethanol in summer despite smog risks 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z The agave leaves are then tilled back into the soil where beans, clover and mustard grow as cover crops. California has a new take on mezcal and tequila. How Sacramento-area farmers are leading it 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The scent of freshly tilled soil filled the air. In California’s Imperial Valley, farmers brace for a future with less Colorado River water 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z That is the nature of this community garden, its more than 200 plots tilled by immigrants from all over Mexico and Central America. A community garden in Watts provides solace, fresh produce for immigrants 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Owen: Some cola, cranberry and tilled soils on the nose, and the palate is slightly sweet but shows a good degree of minerality. Here are the best Costco wine bargains for the 2022 holiday season 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z When compared to fields used for corn and soybean production across the Midwest, which included sites in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, the tilled fields had far less concentration of beryllium-10. Midwest soil is eroding faster than ever. Modern farming could be to blame 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z "And they will not be free, the soil will continue to be tilled … until it can never replenish itself." An Indian spiritual leader is urging the world to ‘save soil.’ Experts say he’s not helping 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z They helped Mike create an accounting system to accurately split the payments between him and the various backyards; some of them would get 60% because they tilled while Mike sold, others 40%. They turned 4 Los Angeles yards into low-water mini-farms — and the lettuce is phenomenal 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z I've engaged in brickbats with troll farms and tilled a bit of soil myself, unleashing quips on political ne'er-do-wells from sunup to sundown and sometimes beyond. Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is a disaster. How much longer will the platform hold? 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z But this was no time to sulk, the wiry 63-year old told Reuters, as he tilled his fields with oxen to plant beans instead. Scavenging for supplies, Cuba's tobacco farmers rebuild after Hurricane Ian 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Like others in neighboring villages, most of the families here have tilled this land for over 100 years. Battered by Floods and Trapped in Debt, Pakistani Farmers Struggle to Survive 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Older generations in oases across the country are mourning lost traditions unique to the land they once tilled, while younger people are trying to sow the seeds of a new future. A journey through Morocco’s vanishing oases Where farmers once tilled fields of cotton and wheat, wooden motorboats now chug across the festering pond ferrying people between towns that were saved from the brunt of the flooding and their marooned villages. In Pakistan’s Record Floods, Villages Are Now Desperate Islands 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The bulk of ethanol emissions are produced when new land is tilled for corn production, releasing carbon that is stored in soil and roots. Special Report-How U.S. regulators allow ethanol plants to pollute more than oil refineries 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The soil on roughly 21 percent of farmland wasn’t tilled continuously over a four-year period while only 12 percent was planted with cover crops, according to a 2017 survey by the U.S. Companies’ Climate Promises Face a Wild Card: Farmers 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z KIGALI, Rwanda — For decades, the village had been a sanctuary for the families, who tilled the land and cared for their herds in Ethiopia’s largest region. ‘We Are Not Safe’: Ethiopians Flee Massacre that Killed Hundreds 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z We were traveling, at great speed, through a landscape of greens and browns — bare trees, tilled fields, a line of low vague hills huddled in the distance. How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z On many farms, this topsoil is plowed or tilled each season to prepare the ground for planting, making such pressures largely a nonissue. Big tractors, now heavier than many dinosaurs, can damage deep soil 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Farm fields stretch out to the horizons, in brilliant, yellow blossoming rapeseed or tilled black earth. Russia’s grave miscalculation: Ukrainians would collaborate 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Ray Gaesser and his son Chris in Corning gave up on a carbon sequestration project when it asked for proof that they had not tilled the land for a period of time. Companies’ Climate Promises Face a Wild Card: Farmers 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z So, she pivoted, bought a tractor, tilled up her field and planted chamomile, creating a farm where people can come visit and stay for tea. In the 1920s, afternoon tea was a gathering place for women. These Seattle-area tearooms keep the legacy alive 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Some towns distributed strips of land in large fields that the residents tilled together; others gave a separate farm to every household. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He passed by mysterious tilled rows where miners had harvested borax more than 100 years ago. Blisters. Hallucinations: A hiker's grueling attempt to cross Death Valley in four days 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Standing in one of his plots, Yassin pointed out a few desiccated-looking trees and the churned brown of recently tilled fields. Iraq's Great Thirst: Farmers quit as climate change and politics dry up a once-fertile land 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z And when cultivation exhausted the soil, British farmers simply tilled another square. Book review: The past, present, and future of poop 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z In May I tilled the wet earth, planted the squash and tomatoes in the garden. The seasons of an accidental pandemic hobby farmer 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z More permanent settlers gradually built a society where a small and wealthy upper class controlled vast lands and tilled them with unfree workers whom they bought and sold at will. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He tilled the soil, fertilized crops and irrigated the fields, nurturing an annual bounty of cotton, soybeans and corn for a prominent farming family. Black Farmworkers Say They Lost Jobs to Foreigners Who Were Paid More 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z They tilled the ground and made it fertile for activism against police brutality, mass incarceration, generational poverty and racial wealth gaps. Decades later, a new look at Black Panthers and their legacy 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts, and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing, and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven’s favor, in spite of the best advice. Poem: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s one of several parcels he owns, totaling 1,500 acres — some of it land that his ancestors once tilled as slaves. Black US farmers awaiting billions in promised debt relief 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The majority of residents were small or middling planters who tilled their own fields with the help of their families. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Farmers are required to sign up for a minimum five-year term, with payments doled out gradually over that time to ensure that carbon is not re-released if, for example, the soil is tilled, Harbourt said. Corteva, Indigo Ag team up on carbon credit program for U.S. farmers 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The horizon was hazy, the valley below dotted with green trees and bald lawns, the gray highway looping through tilled fields. Ruining the Roller Coaster: Can the Appalachian Trail survive its pandemic popularity? 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z The “American system” required steady westward expansion onto Indian lands tilled by an ever-increasing number of enslaved people and indentured European immigrants. Review | From commerce to chaos: An economic history of the United States 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Nicodemus farmers who once tilled hundreds of acres of farmland no longer actively farm, and much of their ground has been lost over the generations. Black US farmers awaiting billions in promised debt relief 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The Massachusetts economy rested on farming families who tilled their own land, perhaps with a servant or two. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The charred remains of his farm vehicles sit in a field surrounded for miles by tilled prairie. He Already Saw the Election as Good vs. Evil. Then His Tractor Burned. 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The plants will be tilled back into the soil to enrich it, and a nearby field is currently being transformed into a three-acre corn maze, which will open on Sept. 13. The Hottest Commodity in Pandemic New York? Fresh Air 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Watkins placed his camera’s tripod in a tilled field, establishing a space of human endeavor as the vantage point from which the mission is seen. The first great California artist photographed San Gabriel Mission 140 years ago 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z “I was a farmhand. I milked the cows and fed the chickens and fed the hogs and tilled the soil. I did all that good stuff that farm boys do without a tractor,” he recalled. North Carolina man works to uncover the past 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z The first planters tilled crops of tropical cotton and tobacco, but adopted sugar when Virginia’s leaf became more popular. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But as concrete covers land that was once tilled, lifestyles have changed. AP PHOTOS: India’s lockdown spurs new gardeners in Nagaland 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Billions of dollars’ worth of produce went to waste, much of it tilled back into the soil, said Cathy Burns, CEO of the Produce Marketing Assn., which represents produce companies. Rotting food. Hungry masses. Chaotic supply chains. Coronavirus upends the U.S. food system 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Now, gardeners new and old are getting online and on social media to post pictures of freshly tilled backyards, raised garden beds, seeds germinating under grow lights or flocks of chickens. A century later, victory gardens connect Americans again 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Driving through freshly tilled fields in rural Indiana a few years back, I was struck by how low points retained rich, black earth, yet on the hilltops, the khaki subsoil was completely exposed. The novelist who loved soil 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In rural areas, James continued the Dutch practice of issuing large manorial grants to be tilled by tenants, which made landlord-tenant conflicts a recurrent feature of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century politics. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “There’s still a lot being left on the field, and a lot is being tilled underground,” said Heckert. 'A disastrous situation': mountains of food wasted as coronavirus scrambles supply chain 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Refusing to cede the ground to the right on patriotism is a fine idea so long as you have tilled the soil first. Nationalism needn’t be negative – but it has to be honest | Gary Younge 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z She tilled the soil, sowed the seeds, irrigated the earth and waited for the bushy green hemp plants to sprout. Hemp or Pot Farm? Police and Thieves Can’t Always Tell 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Indeed, oats grown in the “no-till” fields had 25 percent more Ergo than their counterparts in tilled soil, and the soil in the no-till field also had more Ergo. Uncovering how microbes in the soil influence our health and our food 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The farmers tilled their fields with hoes instead of plows, since draft animals were likely to die from diseases carried by the tsetse fly. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Instead, they revived family farms and tilled their land as they saw fit. Barred From Owning Land, Rural Chinese Miss Spoils of Country’s Success 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Some growers are using a biodegradable material that can be tilled into the soil after harvest, but it costs more than plastic. Editorials from around Oregon 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z All the food served in the restaurant, called simply Food and Farm, is fresh and seasonal, grown nearby, until 30 years ago in fields tilled by workers serving the Soviet state. Pass the lilac jam, please. Russian foodies explore tastes from the pre-Soviet past. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z We stop in front of the plot that used to be Lea’s, now a freshly tilled patch of brown. Murder on the allotment: 'She was everything that he wanted to be' 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z “We’re able to rescue a lot of product that would otherwise get tilled into the soil,” said Nate Sumner, director of quality control. Severn joins ‘ugly produce’ hubs trying to fix food waste 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z This fall, Kurt tilled the field north of the drainage ditch that runs through his farm as he typically does, with a big combine that churns up mud and works fertilizer into the soil. Ohio’s watershed moment: How to fix Lake Erie algae 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Twenty years ago, his father tilled a small plot of about two acres. China’s Small Farms Are Fading. The World May Benefit. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Then the Philadelphia Phillies’ grounds crew pulled up the tarp, revealing a field that looked something like freshly tilled farmland. Nationals-Phillies postponed after failed attempt to dry field: ‘Everybody saw the flamethrowers’ 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Its figure includes state land and plots tilled by black subsistence farmers in the old homelands. Taking the land: ANC grasps South Africa's most emotive issue 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z It wasn’t uncommon to see farmers shifting growing patterns or fallowing acres; new drilling rigs or freshly tilled acreage didn’t excite much chatter. The Water Wars of Arizona 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Two water monitors sit on each side of the ditch like referees, gathering samples of surface water and subsurface water to compare which field — tilled or “no-till” — retains more of its nutrients. Ohio’s watershed moment: How to fix Lake Erie algae 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z But unlike the American South and the Caribbean islands, the farms of England were not tilled by black slaves. What Meghan Markle means to black Brits 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The soil requires a 15%-20% retreatment after four or five years if the land is tilled and if untilled then the treatment lasts for longer. The innovation turning desert sand into farmland 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The site looks like a recently tilled garden bed, stretching out for hundreds of yards, in a near perfect circle. Australia’s Least Likely Tourist Spot: A Test Site for Atom Bombs 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z On an overcast day a week after the immigration sweep, 33 workers pulled cases of jalapeño sprouts off a truck and transplanted them into tilled soil at a farm in Lamont, Calif. In the Central Valley, ICE arrests of farmworkers who weren't immigration targets have raised anxiety 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z But candidate Trump diligently tilled the soil in which this hatred flourishes and, more appallingly, President Trump tolerated its deadly consequences in Charlottesville. Opinion | I’ve never respected a president less. And I’ve never loved America more. 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The impact of that angst will extend beyond the tilled farmlands. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z But he still nearly had a serious accident the first time he tilled a field. Rise of ‘hobby farms’ means more growers get maimed, killed 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z She looked out across the country road at tilled fields of corn. Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Crafting elegant parcels of tilled earth requires scrupulous alignment, each seed sedulous placement and tending. Stardew Valley for Switch Is the Farming Game's Ideal Home 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z One disadvantage, Ross admits, is that his soil doesn’t warm up as quickly as tilled soil. Conservation for the Future of the Family Farm 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Volunteers help tend the garden, the Village of Utica Garden Club worked on the projects, benches were donated, the village tilled the earth and Girl Scout Troop 1094 even planted a pollinator garden. EXCHANGE: Gardens in Illinois Valley seek to unify community 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z A federal court ruled against Duarte last year, saying the wetlands that Duarte tilled hadn’t been plowed for at least 24 years. Kushner Cos. sued over rent stabilization law in New York 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z I grew up on the land of a former slave plantation, and although I didn’t know this as a child, it's where my great great great grandfather tilled the soil. Read LaDainian Tomlinson's Powerful Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z A favorite relaxation place is on the south side, near a fishpond they restored, overlooking fields that were tilled by first-century Romans. A Palladian Villa in Italy, Listed for $45 Million 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The peasant who tilled the same fields on the banks of the Nile for centuries became a symbol of that nationalist sentiment. Egypt’s leader faces a crisis of his own making — one that reveals his nation’s dangerous weakness 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z The tilled plot features a classic variety of tomatoes, lettuces, onions and peppers, as well as a mix of experimental crops, including cantaloupe, leek, pumpkin, watermelon and zucchini. Iowa golf course plants garden to supply on-site restaurant 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z While there, she mingled with the inmates, walked through the farm lands, which were tilled by the women, and ate the same lunch as the prisoners. Beyond ‘Orange Is the New Black’: The storied past of Alderson federal women’s prison 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Because Jones distrusted the courts, she never filed the deed, and kept it tucked in her shirt as she tilled the land. Why Sally Yates Stood Up to Trump 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z After all, soil erosion from chemical-free tilled fields undermined the Roman Empire and other ancient societies around the world. Avoid conventional wisdom: Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z They were displaced by farmers migrating in from the south, who tilled the soil for the first time, exposing minerals deposited in the reddish clay during eruptions 2.5 million years ago. Volcanic Minerals, Not Worms, Caused Disease Outbreak in Uganda 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Most were a part of the enslaved population that once tilled the cane fields near where their bodies are now buried, as well as the descendants of many of those slaves. Researcher maps hidden graveyards of slaves 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The vast sugar cane fields thrive, but they’re largely owned by outside companies and tilled by migrant workers, often Mexicans. America just spent 8 years with a black president. For many African Americans, it meant one big thing: freedom to 'dream' 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z In the not-too-distant future, our fields could be tilled, sown, tended and harvested entirely by fleets of co-operating autonomous machines by land and air. In the future, will farming be fully automated? - BBC News 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Farmers say they are being unfairly targeted because schools often build campuses on cheaper land outside town, where they have tilled the soil long before students arrived. APNewsBreak: California to ban some pesticides near schools 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The pilot unsuccessfully attempted to restart the engine and was forced to land in a tilled field. Plane crash lands in Ohio field; pilot unhurt 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z So, every year before corn harvest, the soil is tilled and everything below comes to the surface, including rocks, which can damage crops and equipment. A Summer Ritual: Rock Picking in the Midwest 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Farm ground that is tilled still yields artifacts, but undisturbed land can be productive too. EXCHANGE: Artifacts tell Native Americans’ stories 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The cultivation of a “dust mulch”, a layer of tilled topsoil that seals in moisture to prevent it evaporating from around the plant’s roots, is one example. When in drought: the California farmers who don’t water their crops 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z And so on steamy fall mornings, when the new arrivals dug in their gardens or tilled their fields, they unearthed small fortunes. Searching for Nazi Gold 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Over the next six years, the top two feet of soil were diced, churned and tilled until Hawk’s jawbone appeared about 7:30 a.m. Father's dying wish granted: Remains of Debbie Hawk found 10 years after she went missing 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z These creatures were once much more common in Chinese villages, especially in the north, where they tilled fields, hauled produce and circled grindstones for grain. Sellers of Donkey Gelatin, a Chinese Cure in Crisis, Seek a State Remedy 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z When Berger returned home to farm, he and his father noticed yields near fence rows that hadn’t been tilled were higher than other places on the farm. Meet Iowa’s poster child for farm conservation 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z So, before planting wheat this fall, he and Shayne tilled up 25 to 30 percent of the acres. Kansas famers fight weed war as herbicide resistance grows 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Yet neither edifice is as important as the land itself, which Olmsted tilled for seven years. Saving a Vital Patch of Olmsted’s Staten Island Eden 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z “I like to say the ground has been tilled” by the Affordable Care Act, Ms. Aguilar said. Instability in Marketplaces Draws Concern on Both Sides of Health Law 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z One walnut grower lost tons of topsoil from a recently tilled property west of the city. California vineyards take steps to prevent loss of topsoil to El Niño rains 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z But kids aren’t the only ones drawn to the tractors that tilled the soil and carved out a living for Gail. EXCHANGE: Collector turns his workhorses into show horses 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Miklos said the tractor tilled pasture to kill weeds and promote growth of desired plants. Miklos’ dual roles: protect, assist development of wetlands 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z While they were burdened and disdained in America, it was the land they had tilled and spilled blood on, the land where they created life and buried their dead. The man who was caged in a zoo | Pamela Newkirk 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z All that remains of the 3,700-square-foot vegetable garden was freshly tilled soil and pipes for an irrigation system that will be reconfigured to accommodate the return of turf grass to the site. Controversial Fort Collins community garden being moved 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z His healthier soil, he believes, made better use of the tiny amount of rain that fell than did the fully tilled fields of other farmers. Farmers Put Down the Plow for More Productive Soil 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Before the availability of effective herbicides to control weeds that compete with crops and reduce productivity, farmers tilled their fields, which resulted in unsustainable environmental impacts like the loss of topsoil and release of CO2. News Flash: We're Made Of Chemicals! 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z FarmLogs develops mobile applications specifically meant to help row farmers track metrics for fields, such as when they must be tilled, fertilized, watered and so on. Agtech Upstart FarmLogs Raises Another $10 Million 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Then it might be spread on open plots of land and tilled into the soil, a practice called “land farming.” Fracking Sludge in Open Pits Goes Unmonitored As Health Worries Mount 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Some plots once tilled by small farmers lie untended, nothing more than overgrown grazing fields for cattle. Redrawing a State in India Drives Land Prices to the Sky 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The book tour tilled much of what ground remained. A silver lining in early attacks on Clinton? 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Often visitors leave without grasping that our national military cemetery once was land tilled by slaves, Lee’s family-owned slaves. Civil War General Lee's Arlington Mansion Gets Rubenstein Donation 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Those women grew sugar cane, and corn, and potatoes, tilled land, shelled bushels of peas, birthed generations, and made a headscarf look like a crown. How to encounter a black woman’s body: The politics of Mammy Sphinx 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Now they are tilled in the main by Syrian women and children, who work for lower wages. Syrian refugee children in Lebanon forced to seek work – in pictures 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The auctioneer said earlier that the remains were found in 1949 as a garden was being tilled on the Benner Farm in Gettysburg. Gettysburg skull auction canceled, burial planned 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z When the earth is tilled, Bell says carbon is released. Minnesota soil researcher digs dirt 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have shot dead 29 farm workers as they tilled their fields in a village in the remote northeast, a police source said on Thursday. Nigeria's Boko Haram kills 29 in village attack: sources 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z How about this: No one is saying Fortgang did not sow seeds, but checking his privilege is just acknowledging that the ground he tilled was more fertile than the ground others tilled. Dear Privileged-at-Princeton: You. Are. Privileged. And Meritocracy Is a Myth. 2014-05-06T17:00:18Z A week ago, they reached the spacious, mud-walled house of Haji and Zahra on a promontory overlooking a valley of freshly tilled wheat and potato fields along a fast river. Afghan Couple Find Idyllic Hide-Out in Mountains, but Not for Long 2014-04-21T04:07:45Z That birds were more likely to nest in no-till fields than in tilled ones was not terribly surprising. No-Till Farming Is Even Better for Wildlife Than Thought 2014-03-26T15:00:00Z The percentage of corn acres in Indiana that were not tilled or were minimally tilled jumped from 36 percent to 45 percent between 2004 and 2009, according to the state's Conservation Tillage Program. How Growing Corn Could Produce Less Pollution 2013-12-05T16:45:00.521Z There is a drawing of the way the land used to be tilled - two men pulling a plough instead of oxen, guided by a third. The village where time has stood still 2013-11-25T00:06:40Z Between 1985 and 1996, the farm bill had provisions under which farmers who tilled highly-erodible lands without a conservation plan or drained wetlands to plant crops risked losing their federal crop insurance subsidy. Conservationists push to preserve North Dakota prairie, wetlands through farm policy 2013-09-22T21:35:04Z Britain is fertile soil for golf, its tilled territories producing seven members of Europe’s victorious 2012 Ryder Cup team and six players in the world top 20, including two of the top three. European Tour, Expanding but Short on Cash, Finds Itself at Crossroads 2013-07-14T23:59:19Z By searching for signs of vegetation, raised beds and tilled earth, he was able to mark the location and size of both community and residential gardens. Using Satellites, Researchers Pinpoint Chicago's Urban Gardens 2013-01-15T18:15:00.353Z For Green Mountain College, where Lou tilled the fields with his teammate, a second ox named Bill, this was never the plan. Vermont College Euthanizes One Ox, Spares Another 2012-11-13T03:05:38Z There is hardly any tilled land in the county; its herds are large, and its population consequently declining. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z It was to this end even more than for the barren satisfaction of pleasing Mother Nature that she had tilled the garden of her mind with both science and imagination. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z He was a sort of squatter, and tilled a few acres which had been partially cleared by the Indians years before; but relied principally upon his gun and fish-pole for a livelihood. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z Hence these almost independent “principalities that the monks established in those “countries, where some years before they tilled, with “their own hands, the grounds which a pious liberally “had abandoned to them.” The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z If you wait for good hunting weather, the crops interfere with your sport, and our farmers have not the English inducement to welcome the hunt across the fields, tilled at the sweat of their brow. Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z But the hallowed soil is never tilled, so that all provisions have to be brought from the surrounding districts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Fit for plowing or tillage; Ð hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The country through which we passed in the fresh morning air, a range of bleak lime-stone heights sparsely covered with oak trees, seemed thinly peopled, and little tilled. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z During the war the country had been self-supporting, wheat had risen, land suitable and unsuitable had been enclosed and tilled. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Crumb's was one of the old farms; the grandfather of David Crumb had tilled the same acres. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z THE fields of thought are plowed so deep, So carefully are tilled, That all the granaries of the world With plenteous store are filled. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z He argues that it was natural to divide the land tilled by a mixed plough-team among the owners of the several beasts and implements. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The subject population tilled their fields for the benefit of their foreign lords, and the benefit was shared by the inhabitants of Canaan. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z In a world filled with millions and millions of acres of land waiting to be tilled, where one man can raise the food for hundreds, millions are on the edge of famine. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The skin of Laman and his followers became black; while that of Nephi and his people, who tilled the land, retained its original whiteness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The Pughs will plant their first crop of organic spinach and lettuces in the next few weeks on ground they tilled behind the barn they converted into a two-bedroom home. Eyeing greener acres, new farmers reap growing U.S. aid 2012-02-06T13:14:06Z When, however, a famine arose, I tilled all the fields in the nome of Maḫ, from its southern to its northern boundary, and gave nourishment and life to its inhabitants. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z As the slope leveled off into short, tilled terraces, a new sound joined the melee: heavy weaponry clattering from somewhere high above us. The Hard Way Out of Afghanistan 2012-02-01T22:05:17Z The fields were tilled with ploughs drawn by oxen, or with the hoe. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Under Abbot �gelric the fens were tilled, the monastery grew rich, and the town increased in size, enormous tracts of land being held by the abbey at the Domesday Survey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Along the west side of Hadley's pasture, between it and the county road, lay the tilled fields of the Ross property, corn and pumpkins and turnips, against which a solemn trespass board advised us. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z No husbandman ever chose his seed or tilled his ground at greater cost of patient care. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z As we lay flat on our stomachs in the wet mire of a tilled poppy field, Sisson shook his head. The Hard Way Out of Afghanistan 2012-02-01T22:05:17Z Amid the rolling hills that border the Big Sioux River, tilled fields abut ethanol plants, hog farms and dairy factories. Sioux County, Iowa: Ground zero for farm boom 2012-01-10T06:07:34Z The Dismal Gibcat, with exceeding dullness, replied that a man who had received his education at a public school and an ancient university ought to be able to distinguish between tilled land and thoroughfare. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Their peaks are heaped against the skies, and their fields are tilled with the hoe when mules and plows might fall down to destruction. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z "He's tilled the soil here, and when you till the soil you usually get a pretty good crop," Deace said. Tight race in Iowa kicks off White House campaign 2011-12-31T14:26:05Z In the Des Moines area, farms that were bought for development — even parcels that were cleared and graded — are being tilled and planted again, some rented as a stopgap measure and some permanently sold off. In Iowa, Farmland Expands as Crop Prices Soar 2011-12-31T03:13:33Z In the quiet tilled spots of earth, from time immemorial, men have sown rare seeds of poetic thought that have flowered into song. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The land was cleared and tilled to some extent. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z He cleared and tilled a small spot of land around it, and Susan began to hope that for her sake he would settle down quietly as a squatter. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Men with teams of horses came from every farm for miles around and tilled his ground. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z He built himself a small cottage and tilled a little farm quite close to the graveyard of Dergen, and in sight of the sea. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z She and Claes tilled their field together, yoking themselves like oxen to the plough. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z For this reason running water and growing fruits should be spread over the earth; "the field should be tilled, and trees planted which produce food." The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z Scene: Half-way down the glen, where heather and patches of tilled land end, and woodland commences. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z I don’t like to see our farmers’ boys turning their backs on the fields their fathers have tilled.” Eunice 2011-12-05T03:00:40.560Z Since then, the fields, which his ancestors had tilled for more than a hundred years, had lain abandoned at the edge of the high road. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z Poor farmers meant less labour, badly tilled soil, reduced wages, and the hinds became a picture of misery. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z A flat land lay before us, green and well tilled. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Afterward by degrees you grub up the stumps and get the clean, tilled land. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The Cagayanes were prohibited from growing rice, but were allowed as an indulgence to plant a row or two of maize around their carefully tilled tobacco-fields. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z While the rest of the huerta still slept, he tilled his fields in the uncertain light of dawn, but more and more convinced, all the time, that he could not go on working them alone. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z A Fine Crop Celery grown on soil tilled by dynamite.—See p. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Armed men, with sentinels posted to give warning of an enemy's approach, tilled the fields. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z While nobles were fighting for gold, and harrying heretics, briars and weeds were spreading over the fields that the patient Moors had tilled and made marvellously fertile. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Only a small part of the land, as compared with that tilled before the war, is under cultivation, the remainder becomes wild. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Half of the land having been broken up, Batiste fenced in the plot and tilled it with the aid of the willing nag, which was like one of the family. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z What do they care whether science, taken as a whole, has untilled or badly tilled regions? Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The plantations, which were tilled by slave labor, are almost concealed in the recesses of the forests, so thickly wooded is the country. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z At the period of my purchase the only human inhabitants of Jala-Jala were a few Indians, of Malay extraction, who lived in the woods and tilled some nooks of land. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z The principal land-use in the Big Blue Watershed is tilled crops, with wheat, sorghums, and corn being most important. Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas 2011-10-15T02:00:26.927Z I shall always remember that quiet little place where the red-headed Guthries,—they must have been red-headed from eating so much porridge,—tilled the earth and brought up sheep in the way they should go. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Life's garden tilled with toil and tears we see; No Paradise, sometimes Gethsemane. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Lord St. Vincent tilled with "Envy," and discharging a watery broadside; and Lord Grenville, who is raising his "Opposition Clamor" to confuse their course. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z The tilled and inhabited lands around Lake Mœris, large as a sea, were never flooded. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z FRESNO, Calif. — As the sun rises on tilled soil on the outskirts of Fresno, Calif., Mori Vance bends to pick black eyed peas, then disappears among towering okra bushes. California farming group helps African Americans enter agriculture, teaches healthy living 2011-09-16T07:33:24Z They passed Belchantska, and advanced again among tilled fields, fallow land, meadows, and broad wind-swept spaces which were bordered on the horizon by a blue rim of forest. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z The men, also, joined the soldiers on the battlefield, and used any weapon they could obtain, but chiefly the instruments with which, in normal times, they tilled the ground. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z His father was an easy-minded farmer, who tilled his own acres; he was reading the newspaper in an easy chair, and his mother, a delicate, somewhat nervous, lady, was sewing near the window. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The rock was Saint Helena, and a very beautiful rock it is too, hill and dell and thriving town, its mountain-sides tilled and its straths and glens containing many a fertile little farm. Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z "On Symbols of the Cross," he says the seas cannot be sailed without cross-shaped masts, nor the earth tilled save with cross-shaped instruments. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z The peasant tilled his land with sweat and toil. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z The country was harried from end to end by bands of lawless robbers, who destroyed the tilled fields and vineyards, and turned the land into a howling wilderness. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z The people were divided, for the most part, into two classes, those who fought the battles, and those who tilled the soil, to obtain the wherewithal to sustain both. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z An apple-tree, growing on the line where tilled garden ground meets a lawn, grows more vigorously on the side towards the garden. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z Why should we leave the soil our fathers cleared, And lifelong tilled with patient, loving hands? Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z Three miles further on the moor sloped down to the tilled lands again. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z A corrupt aristocracy divided the land among themselves; the great estates were tilled by a wretched and hopeless race of serfs; the citizen classes were ruined. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z If a field is to be tilled, it is done by two natives, who are furnished with long poles, pointed at one end. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z It is a land of sugar-cane, yams, and sweet potatoes, very prolific, and very easily tilled. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z He then was anxious to know who ground the corn and tilled the fields—whether the men or the women. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z He drew a modest livelihood from his tavern, and tilled his fields with diligence. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z A people's freshest literature springs from free soil, tilled by free men. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z It is probable that during the coming summer a million acres of land in this country will be tilled by those undergoing sentence. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z The whole subject opens up a virgin field which has after all only begun to be tilled. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z For a computed distance of fourteen miles, we encountered a succession of ascents and descents, which made us rejoice, as evening approached, to see a tilled valley before us. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z They tilled small farms with their own hands, and indentured servitude and slave-holding were consequently unimportant. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Each tenant stayed right where he had been all the time, in possession of the tract he had always tilled, he and his father before him. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z If they squint, neighbors say, the farm tilled by David Abreu begins to look a little like home — his cilantro is as green, his bean supply as tidy. All of His Crops Flourished. Too Bad They Were in a Park. 2011-06-25T02:08:27Z Its green trees, and the fair fields which he so oft had tilled, smiled as an Eden upon him. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z The farmers dwelt together in the town and tilled the fields for several miles around. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z In the north the small farm was usually tilled by the owner and his sons, aided by hired help especially during harvest time. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Her stoicism seemed to have its roots in the soil itself, tilled and fought for by centuries of ancestors. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z They must have grain for the cattle and themselves, and pasturage for the beasts, room for orchards and gardens, room for the villages of those who tilled their fields. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Demeter, granter of fruits, many sheaves vouchsafe to the cornfield, Aye to be skilfully tilled, and reaped, and the harvest abundant. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z In all the elements of essential prosperity, in all that elevates man, how striking the contrast between the region that is tilled by slave, and the region that is tilled by free labor.” The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The bisons disappeared; the Celts took possession and tilled.” The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z To a large extent also even the steep hillsides are tilled. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The artisans worked for it, and the agricultural labourers tilled its fields. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z This day had been a happy one for both Hawermann and his child, and now he was sitting in the shady arbour overlooking the fields he had tilled and the neighbouring country. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:43.727Z Kind would rather have stayed and tilled his father's wheat-field, hard by the cottage; but since his elder brother would go, he resolved to bear him company. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z I mean to say, they enjoyed no citizenship, but, on the other hand, they had in most cases not to pay taxes for the lands they tilled or dwelt on. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z So he cut off from the demesne a farm of eighty acres of fine Curragh land, well drained and tilled. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z His bit of orchard is well kept and tilled, and if you were to put him down in any quarter of the world, he would know how to get a living. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The Roman warriors tilled their fields with the same intelligence as they pitched their camps, and sowed corn with the same care with which they drew up their armies for battle. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Thou hast prospered our grain, and tilled our land. The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] 2011-04-02T02:00:09.993Z To their right rolled the prairies, that never can become mere fields, however much they be tilled or fenced. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z The pretender, in return, circulated manifestoes, in which he abolished servitude, freed unconditionally all the serfs, and created them proprietors of the soil which they tilled. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z The Seminole was not exclusively a hunter; he was a husbandman as well, and tilled the land—rudely, it may be, but was this a reason for dispossessing him? Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z "The darkness of ages shall be superseded by the revivifying warmth and the fruitful light of the sun; harvests of abundance will cover with their sheaves the soil tilled by a fecund revolution." The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z It was he who first tilled a small field with his own imperial hands, to make agriculture respectable to his people. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z There were a few tilled fields about it and a considerable courtyard in the Eastern fashion. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z From his home will you cast The old man who has tilled it for years! The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z The spring sun was warm on Bud's back as he bent over the freshly tilled garden plot. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z The soil is for the most part clayey, resting on a bed of chalk, and is, in general, fertile and well tilled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Cities have shot up which are as huge and bewildering, as impenetrable and as endless, as nothing else has been save those virgin forests now fast receding before the onward march of the tilled land. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z They seem to be happy; their fields are tilled, a horse and a cow graze near the house; a kitchen garden is under way and several broods of baby chicks are in the yard. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z From his home will you cast, The old man who has tilled it for years? The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z Simon walked almost parallel to the dark fringe for nearly a mile; then turned off into the tilled lands. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Twice she came within sight of the ground, descending to within fifty feet in order to do so, but only an expanse of tilled fields rewarded the pilot's efforts. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z On the farther side of the Rhine and the Danube, in marked contrast with this society, the Teutonic Barbarians tilled their lands and herded their flocks. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z We are now in West Flanders, in a countryside of market gardens, where every inch of ground is closely tilled, and the fields are laid out like a chessboard. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z From his home I will cast The old man who has tilled it for years; Though each tree and flower is linked with the past, And a friend of his childhood appears. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z Then she looked out over the tilled lands. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Trudging across the tilled land were eight or nine greatcoated Huns, armed with rifles. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z It was two years later that, as has been said, "he tilled up the measure of his fame by the victory of Mobile Bay." Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z The women tilled the ground, the children herded the cattle, and the men hunted—when hungry. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z From his home he has cast The old man who has tilled it for years; Though each tree and flower is linked with the past, And a friend of his childhood appears. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z The unfree class tilled the soil, and were thus the serfs of a ruling class, and only freemen could bear arms. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z The country consisted of tilled fields—the work of impressed Belgians, forced by their taskmasters to cultivate the ground to provide foodstuffs for the Huns. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z In the course of two 504 generations the “farmers” who paid rent for these holdings became more and more numerous, and demesne land tilled by villein-service grew more and more rare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z In the meantime the strong, able-bodied African tilled the fields of the South, when he might have been fighting for freedom and the Union. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z One of her sons was in the army, and seldom at home; the other helped her about the house and tilled a little meadow which belonged to them. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z In the foreground, to the left, was an acre or two of tilled soil. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z But the marrow of his pride in Chicago is his community with its origins in “men, like myself, of New England blood, whose fathers felled our forests and tilled our prairie land.” The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Even if they exacted the full rigour of service from the survivors, they could not get their broad demesne lands properly tilled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The African was found to be strong-bodied, and through and by means of his diligent labor the cities and lands of the South had been built up and tilled respectively. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z So it is pushing curtains in the hues of “tilled soil” and paint in “cornbread,” delicate almond-colored benches with matching scalloped mirrors and rugs in colors like “Wilderstein brook trout,” all designed by Martha Stewart. Revamping, Home Depot Woos Women 2011-01-28T17:00:08Z Again and again I came upon farm land, small patches of tilled soil which the stubborn strength of man had wrested from the wilderness to supply his needs. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z According to another tradition, before Demeter's time, men neither cultivated corn nor tilled the ground, but roamed the mountains and woods in search for the wild fruits which the earth produced. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z They work with their hands, and the Czar issues a ukase that they are to be driven off the soil they have tilled. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z The farms on country roads, abandoned by the families that formerly tilled them, are occupied by foreigners of alien speech and manners. Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals 2011-01-25T03:00:24.873Z In that year, 1915, the peasants had tilled the fields themselves. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The full, pure voice sang: 188 "I have cut the hops of Alsace—they have grown on the soil we tilled—the green hops are certainly ours—the red earth is also ours." The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z It is true, the virgin forest still flourished in immediate contact with those fields, shorn, tilled, and smoothed as they were, giving a wild and solemn setting to the rural picture the latter presented. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Besides, she tilled the little field, and in the evening she spun the thread to make her brothers' shirts. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The conviction was verified one day when, rounding a bend in a drive through a pine-woods country, he felt his pulses bound at the sudden picture of a beautiful stretch of tilled land. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Thy field lay fallow, I have tilled it. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The farms are generally small, and are for the most part tilled by manual labour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Agriculture evidently occupied very little of the time of the family, which tilled just enough land "to make a live on't," while everything in the shape of lumber was "improved" to the utmost. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z We are a republic, but the only nation of the Christian world whose fields are tilled by chattel slaves. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Scholars like Professor Wilson, 74, who have tilled the field much longer, mentioned the development of more sophisticated data and analytical tools. ?Culture of Poverty,? Long an Academic Slur, Makes a Comeback 2010-10-18T02:31:00Z That includes the removal of 70,000 truckloads of contaminated soil - including from yards where, unaware of the danger years ago, homeowners had tilled vermiculite waste into their gardens. For asbestos-ravaged town, questions persist 2010-05-24T15:13:00Z In all, nearly 1,900 farmers tilled roughly 17,000 acres of poppy into the soil by early May, in exchange for $2.1 million in payments, according to the military’s data. In Afghan Fields, a Challenge to Opium?s Luster 2010-05-22T20:18:00Z The remote tribal villages of Jharkhand state, where the fields are still tilled by oxen, are at the centre of it. Poor appeal 2010-05-04T23:48:00Z Yet here in one of the more thoroughly tilled cities in America, subversive has come full circle: the federal government plans to plant its own bold garden directly above a downtown plaza. 2010-01-30T23:00:00Z His father was in straitened circumstances; and their united labours—for they tilled and sowed the same fields together—were unable to improve them. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 Agriculture and industry were despised by them, their women tilled the ground, and under their rule the common population became reduced almost to servitude; “plebs pœne servorum habetur loco,” as Caesar tells us. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race You asked where the land was that we tilled. The Hillman Cato was a great dealer in slaves; the Sabine farm was tilled by the arms of slaves; Cincinnatus and Regulus worked their little freeholds entirely by means of slaves. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Marshes covered once fertile fields, and the men who should have tilled the land spurned the plow as degrading. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Not a foot of waste ground, not a nesting-place for weeds, not a broken fence; grove and stream, and tilled fields, and gardens, and lawns, and well-kept buildings. The Reclaimers And on looking round Manawyddan saw all the land tilled and peopled as in its best state, and full of herds and dwellings. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Where the land is the property of large owners, and is tilled by labourers, there must be more or less of the feudal temper and manners remaining. How to Observe Morals and Manners The land itself is not tilled by the people it feeds. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. My scope was not broad, it is true, but the ground was thoroughly tilled. A Yankee from the West A Novel In fact, very little was tilled at all in the region about La Gloria. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers It sent out some settlers who sailed from London in the year 1606, and they did what Raleigh's men had failed to do—built themselves homes, and cleared and tilled the land. Stories of London An ubu or prayer was offered before they ate their food, when they tilled their ground, planted their gardens, built their houses, launched their canoes, cast their nets, and commenced or concluded a journey. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Whatever remained of it has been cleared away, partly to make room for the pillar, and partly by cultivation, for the land has been tilled and cropped to the very summit. A Reading Book in Irish History Accordingly, when these estates fell into private hands they were transferred subject to the condition that they should be tilled as heretofore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" A pox, the women will never consent to it: they'll be tilled to death first. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 It was not until he reached tilled land and saw laborers at work, that he alighted and sat down on the ground. On the Heights A Novel There the women never tilled the ground nor did any hard work, though they occupied themselves with the manufacture of bark-cloth, mats, and other articles of domestic use. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II He had the prestige of being a homeowner, and the pride of working his own soil, perhaps the same soil his grandparents had tilled. Frying Pan Farm If the earth had a perfectly smooth surface the same everywhere, and if it were all tilled and cultivated in exactly the same way, there would be no such thing as rent. Political economy The yacht shot up into the wind all right; but after hanging there for a minute with slatting sails, she gracefully tilled away again on her former tack. Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 Here I must pause for an explanation in self-defense, for my reader may think I advise the "little farm well tilled" that has so much captured the public mind. The Holy Earth Not alone is there no doubt whatever, that the Suebi were the collective owners of their land at Cesar's time, but also that they tilled the soil collectively. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State His Georgia home with all its crudities, its rough, unpainted houses, its poorly tilled fields, its ignorant, frenzied religion was immeasurably far away. The Shadow The early settlers tilled the soil and derived from it the simple things that they needed. A Living from the Land Land ploughed and otherwise tilled, but left unseeded during the summer, is sown with wheat in the succeeding autumn or spring. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Old Jean had tilled her piece of garden-ground to some purpose, and had never taken a sou as recompense for his work. Seven Frozen Sailors They then ran for the nearest harbour, and the crews landing tilled the soil until the fine season came round again. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Then there was a Merryvale in Congress and another in the State Senate, while scores of slaves tilled the land and tended the cherished orange groves. The Shadow Eric did not go any farther in this exposition; he wished to cast no imputation upon the father, who had owned large plantations tilled by slaves. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine For I had tilled all the fields of the district of Mah, up to the southern and northern frontiers. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Pouches are drawn out; pipes and cigars are lighted; glasses are tilled for the twentieth time. Seven Frozen Sailors From the old mission fathers they had learned, also, some useful arts, and wherever their prairie lands were tilled a rich result was always obtainable. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit. The Bible Story Although all land was considered to be the property of the sultan, on the local level the land was distributed to feudal lords and was tilled by non-Muslim serfs. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Thus the workers were taxed in addition to the land they tilled. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. There were rolling uplands, and patches of forest, and occasional villages surrounded by broad tilled fields. The Golden Amazons of Venus Making ample deductions for persons not owning land it would appear that more than half the planters at this date still tilled their fields only with their own labor. The Planters of Colonial Virginia By this word the Mexicans denoted the country people, who formed the great mass of the population, who also tilled the ground, and paid to the landowners a third part of the produce. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. It’s laid out a good many years now, for it’s only an acre, or so, and we never tilled it for corn. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks All the land of each village had to be tilled by the residents thereof, either as owners or tenants. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. He himself had played football and gone birds'-nesting with the farmers whom he met at vestry and the labourers who tilled their fields, and so had his father and grandfather with their progenitors. Tom Brown's School Day's Apparently the Virginia yeoman, the sturdy, independent farmer of the Seventeenth century, who tilled his little holding with his own hands, had become an insignificant factor in the life of the colony. The Planters of Colonial Virginia The lowlands were covered with primeval forests and fens--only here and there a few scattered settlements appeared on patches of parched tilled land. A Captive of the Roman Eagles Over this level sweep of tilled land rise at intervals the spires of rare villages, round which scattered houses and gardens of the Bavarian sort—broad-eaved, flat-roofed, gay with flowers—are gathered. The Battle of Blenheim However, even in the first century B. C. these plantations were partly tilled by free peasants, either as tenants or day laborers, and under the principate there was a gradual displacement of slaves by free coloni. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. For thee, O child, shall the earth, without being tilled, produce her early offerings; winding ivy, mixed with Baccar, and Colocasia with smiling Acanthus. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition But it still remains to prove that their owners were men of meagre fortunes, men who tilled the soil with their own hands. The Planters of Colonial Virginia Thus the escape of the Barbarians, whose tilled lands would all be laid waste, would be cut off both eastward and westward. A Captive of the Roman Eagles With the actual tillage of soil, control of the space tilled becomes absolutely necessary, and more necessary with every improvement in agriculture which takes the nature of permanent improvement upon the soil. Rural Health and Welfare Apparently, the clients were tenants who tilled the estates of the patricians, to whom they stood for a long time in a condition of economic and political dependence. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. It was only over ground not yet tilled that his eloquence fell like rain. Rose MacLeod The country of Brabant is everywhere beautiful, rich and well tilled, but the estate of Capello was the most beautiful, the richest and the best tilled of any we saw. Francezka Around this village fertile meadows spread down to the river banks, bringing forth plenteous crops for the support of the honest and thrifty husbandmen who tilled them. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children Many of them lived in comfortable houses, wore white men's clothes, and tilled fields on which were raised in the aggregate great quantities of wheat, corn, cotton and potatoes. The Struggle for Missouri As we have seen, the competition of the slave plantations proved ruinous to those who tilled their own land. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. I have seen fields in Carolina where this might occur, as where a forty-five degree slope is tilled to the brink of a precipice. Our Southern Highlanders Few, indeed, remember what things were forty years ago, as few realise when waste lands have been stubbed and drained and tilled what they were like in their former state. Studies in Contemporary Biography The land previous to setting to asparagus should be well tilled and manured. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history The base of the new society was the freeman who fought, tilled, judged and grew from more to more. Optimism An Essay Hadrian also tried to further the development of peasant landholders by permitting the coloni to occupy any lands not tilled by the middlemen, and giving them rights of possession over all types of land. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. The car literally flew up the next incline, and the dark lines of trees and hedges in the distance proved that tilled land was being neared. Cynthia's Chauffeur Yet more, I dammed the river, I tilled the meadow, creating the land itself by drawing it God-like out of the waters. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages When the Loyalists arrived in 1783 the dyked marsh lands produced about 400 tons of hay, but it was said that “if tilled and ditched they would produce much more.” Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 They cleared their land, or tilled it where it had been cleared, and thought little of improvement or change. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 It is the peasants, the men and women who tilled these fields, and their children that are being shown here, in the splendid and wonderful place where they never set foot before. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium If old, they resume the identical fields they tilled before, but never the old houses or site of the old village, that being deemed unlucky. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies The confiscation of the lands where thousands had tilled the soil under the shadow of the monastery or the Church, was followed by a new system of cultivation, which deprived the peasants of their homes. The History of Freedom The sites of the ancient villages on interval and island have long since been tilled by the thrifty farmer’s hands. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 The men tended the flocks and tilled the land, and while they plowed the fields, the boys followed them step by step, goading on the work-oxen. Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline Nor were there any railways, or tilled fields, or ships on the sea, or books, for there was nobody who could read them. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories The extending of the margin of cultivation which makes it include poorer grades of land causes that part of the area now tilled which does not command any rent to yield one. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy It is owned and tilled by a hard-working man, who, in the busy season, employs one or two assistants. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools Anon they tilled their cornfields on the intervals and islands. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 More than thirty fructifications have appeared at one time, varying in size from one to twenty cm. in a field of potatoes, well tilled, and less than an acre in extent! The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species If properly tilled, such land is rich, free from weeds, and easily pulverized. Soil Culture They made the clothes, the shoes, hats, shirts, underwear, tools, and all the other necessities that mankind required; they tilled the ground and produced its food. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times My grandfather and my father and I, we have all tilled these acres, my furrow following theirs. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) Sixty years later the lands he had cleared and tilled and the site of his residence were transferred to the hands of the first English settlers on the river, the Maugerville colony of 1763. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 Both the Company and Governor's land was to be tilled chiefly by tenants. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 As they rode he dreamed of tilled fields and settled communities in the path of his horse and used his instruments to measure distances and to plumb the depth of streams. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria But they have tilled the land pretty fairly. Fathers and Children Oats and turnips, rather than wheat, barley and potatoes, occupy the tilled land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" But tyrannical confiscation of the soil they tilled loomed foreboding.... The Missourian What is true of Egypt is true of all of the early civilizations, as they each started where a fertile soil could easily be tilled. History of Human Society In regard to Ireland his theory was that the land should be taken from the present proprietors, and divided among the peasants who tilled it. The Landleaguers All this had eaten up his energies, and his fields had gone but half tilled. The Bondboy He has tilled the soil until its fertility was exhausted and then moved on to the newer regions of the West, again to farm and to exploit the virgin riches of a plenteous land. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The place of our retreat was in a little neighborhood consisting of farmers, who tilled their own grounds, and were equal strangers to opulence and poverty. Eighth Reader But the ground was tilled, and barley, wheat, oats, and rye were raised. History of Human Society It is the outcome of many qualities which need cultivation; the soil that produces such fruit must have been carefully tilled. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The tilled land of this district was exceedingly rich, since it is the principal source of supply for rice in Mindanao. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. I shall use the term land farmer to describe the man who tilled the soil in all parts of the country after pioneer days. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The people for the past few years have not tilled the fields and have lived solely upon meat; so when finally cattle were lacking, famine came. In Desert and Wilderness This was a period of accidental agriculture, or hoe culture, whereby the ground was tilled by women with hoes of stone, or bone, or wood. History of Human Society A fourth kind, much smaller, and also without being hollow, serves to make the fences that surround enclosed fields when tilled. Adventures in the Philippine Islands Evidently, although Bakunin was supposedly a city, its populace tilled their fields and provided themselves with their own food. Ultima Thule He tilled the soil and he cut the timber, he explored the earth for mines, seeking everywhere the first values of a virgin land. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology Did not the Church plant the seed as rapidly as the barren soil of the human mind was tilled and made fallow? Carmen Ariza The plantations of the rich were tilled chiefly by bonded laborers, brought from the mother country. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 Where many crofters had once tilled the soil, only a lone shepherd was now found, meditating on scenes of desolation. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba Their present number was all that the island would support, though every possible foot of ground was tilled. Two Thousand Miles Below The leases, while they are for but a year, specify how the land shall be tilled, how fertilized. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The gaiety of the castle was answered back from the park, and harmonized by that of the working people who tilled all the broad lands around it. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals They were tilled, not by servants or by slaves, but by the freemen that owned them. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 Men tilled the soil, went to church, gathered in town meetings, and ordered their ordinary affairs as they had done for half a century. The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths These ridges are separated by a sort of valley like a Norwegian fjord, tilled with red marl. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel There may possibly be similar conditions in other states; certainly in Alabama the black prairie tilled by the Negroes is esteemed better than the other land. The Negro Farmer Every yard tilled right up to the top. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Behold the vineyard Thou hast tilled With thorns and thistles filled. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark The number of times a vineyard should be tilled depends on the soil and the season. Manual of American Grape-Growing The Rivanna River looked like a ribbon of silvery satin laid on green velvet, all in striking contrast with the red soil of the tilled fields. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield The soil varies according to the underlying rocks, but is thin and washes badly, if carelessly tilled. The Negro Farmer They have tilled the ground until it resembles a garden, they have deepened the rivers, built harbours, created industries, been in every way successful. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The farms had been tilled by feudal-laborers, practically slaves; these oppressed peasants now flew to arms. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck There are several reliable guides indicating when the vineyard needs to be tilled. Manual of American Grape-Growing The General knew how to pass from the green spots themselves to the condition of those who tilled them. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Hitherto the Negro has tilled much of the best land of the South. The Negro Farmer For while Papal Ireland is largely rock and bog, the heretical portion is reclaimed and tilled, the bogs drained, the primeval boulders rolled away, broken up, and made into fences. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule In this way the land was subdivided again and again, while at the bottom of the scale were the miserable serfs who tilled the soil. The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial The people of Omi awoke, scarce expecting to find either earth or heaven, when lo! they looked on what had yesterday been tilled land or barren moor, and there was a great sheet of blue. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan Nor can high wages account for the conversion of tilled land to pasture simultaneously with the conversion of pasture land to tillage in the seventeenth century. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction The district all round is well tilled, and the houses bien and comfortable. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Then a monastery, in the precincts of which the ground is reclaimed and admirably tilled, the drainage being carried over ingenious turf conduits, the soil lacking firmness to hold stone or brick. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule “Did you expect to see wild honey dripping out of the cottonwoods 24 and sycamores, buffaloes and deer standing up and waiting to be shot at, and a farm ready to be tilled?” The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas Through the long, hot summer he tilled the fields, and invested the proceeds in clothes and books for the ensuing year. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West Pasture in excess of the legal requirements was plowed up, and persons who did not wish to convert any arable to pasture are found increasing their tilled land by bringing grass land under cultivation. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction There were many peaceful years while Cain tilled the ground and Abel pastured his sheep.' Ghetto Comedies When he was not fighting, he was laboring for his living, or he shut himself up in a solitary island, and tilled the soil. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal It was my own, and I tilled my land and was content. The Mexican Twins “I’ll build my cottage right here by the side of this spring, and my tilled land will always be in view.” The Cabin on the Prairie Thus elements of fertility were transferred from the pasture land to the smaller area of tilled land. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction But if he has with much compunction consciously turned his furrows in a field tilled before, he stands a fair chance of being hailed at the outset of a new career. Imaginary Interviews As has been previously stated the colonial pioneers much preferred to live on the land they tilled. Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 Meanwhile Rufe had Zeph down, and was rubbing the soft black loam of the tilled field very thoroughly into his features, giving especial attention to his neck and ears. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies The acres and acres of tilled land stretched away from the dwelling, enclosed in the most substantial manner, and sleek cattle, that fed in the rich pasture, bespoke competency and enterprise. The Cabin on the Prairie Gonner in Common Land and Inclosure covers much the same ground, but does not bring out as clearly the extent to which the seventeenth century enclosures were accompanied by conversion of tilled land to pasture. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction If the gardener has not tilled the garden and has diminished the yield, the gardener shall pay an average rent. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters The corn stood high in the broad field which the Tarquins had taken from Mars and had ploughed and tilled for generations. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome He owned the soil he tilled, and his little estate had already been in the family for some hundred years. Pioneers of Science If, on the contrary, it was tilled for six years, then the run of the sabbatic years would be interrupted. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Better six square feet of well tilled, weedless, thrifty garden than an acre poorly cultivated and full of weeds. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Thus there was in Virginia at this period a class of men who owned their own land and tilled it entirely with their own hands. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Fields were tilled, the fort was repaired, wise Powhatan treated the pale-faces kindly for Smith's sake, and the emigrants felt for the first time firm ground beneath their feet. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He also, in common with other of the islanders, tilled a little land and kept a few traps set for lobsters. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Our inn-keeper tilled his own fields, grew his own hops, and brewed his own beer; and his wife, wearing her peasant's costume, did all the cooking and cleaning, assisted by a daughter or a cousin. Home Life in Germany Dinner over, and Bob's story finished, they were taken to see the stable and the broad tilled fields by the river bank, where corn stood shocked among the stubble. The Black Buccaneer As noted above they have tilled the same soil for four thousand years. Birdseye Views of Far Lands The unhappy parson, too, was there not much of good in him, and might he not yet prove a human field worthy to be tilled by a husbandman of souls? Aladdin of London or, Lodestar The soil is in general light, but it might be otherwise tilled; and, were it so, would yield far other harvests than those now known in Italy. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Here were no longer pastures, tilled fields, houses with neighboring barn-yards, and unclaimed woodland; no longer was the road fringed with stone walls or stump fencing. Seven Miles to Arden The peasants were enabled to acquire the land which heretofore they had tilled almost like slaves for the benefit of the great landowners belonging to the aristocratic and patrician classes. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Just about half of the soil of France is tilled and about one-eighth is used for grazing while all the famous vineyards of this country cover but about four per cent of the ground. Birdseye Views of Far Lands The land was well tilled and her cattle well tended. A Padre in France The fields are wretchedly tilled, where tilled at all. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The land must be tilled, and is tilled. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study Hundreds of slaves, I have been told, tilled this soil in the days long ago, when its productive power was greater than that of any estate in this whole section. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Little patches of ground are tilled and bananas, pears, oranges, and all kinds of fruit and vegetables as well as corn and other grain grow in abundance. Birdseye Views of Far Lands Peopled, irrigated, and tilled into her remotest corners, she would again become as prolific as of old. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 I have braved public opinion; I have tilled my garden; I have brought myself up from fainting weakness occasioned by accident and broken bones. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He contemplated the wheatfield, tilled partly by his own hands, with a stirring of the heart that was new to his experience. Otherwise Phyllis Busied in clearing off the woodland, each bethought himself of a source of revenue beyond the produce of his tilled ground. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Supporting a population of four hundred and seventy people to the square mile, every foot of the land of course is tilled carefully. Birdseye Views of Far Lands The Benedictine monks tilled the soil of the country surrounding their monasteries, literally making the "desert blossom as the rose." History of Education My strong hands have tilled the fields; and in my early childhood have harnessed the horse, and brought the wood to the door; have led him to the blacksmith's shop to be shod. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He tilled the low land in one of his fallow fields and repaired the fences wherever necessary. Otherwise Phyllis A road or two to be cleared and drained and tilled, and one might have travelled a summer day through the fine farming country without seeing a finer farm than he made it at last. David Fleming's Forgiveness Cold fowls, ham and tongue, chicken salad, and lobsters, cut-glass decanters tilled with wine, brandy, and other liquors, garnished this table. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The fields are not now tilled by the hoe, nor is cotton spun by the hand. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education |
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