单词 | tilled land |
例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 Three miles further on the moor sloped down to the tilled lands again. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Then she looked out over the tilled lands. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z 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 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 Oats and turnips, rather than wheat, barley and potatoes, occupy the tilled land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" 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 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. 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 “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 A few herds of ponies were grazing near by, but there was no tilled land, and these hundreds of lamas are supported in idleness by contributions extorted from the priest-ridden people. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia At the same time, when Indian corn is sown in tilled land it yields with little labour more than twice as much food per acre as any other kind of grain. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Although there were few counties with a lower yield of cotton per acre, one-quarter of a bale, over 42 per cent. of the tilled land of the county was devoted exclusively to this crop. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization 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 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 She looked, and around the edge of the tilled land she saw mile upon mile of desolate moor. In the Border Country They have brought their tilled land up the hillside to the city. Riviera Towns It was about one o'clock in the morning of Sunday, the 5th of April: we were then crossing some tilled lands, intersected by frequent narrow belts of woodland. Border and Bastille Thus elements of fertility were transferred from the pasture land to the smaller area of tilled land. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction The coloured inhabitants are unsurpassed as woodmen, and averse from agriculture; so that there are only about 90 sq. m. of tilled land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" He saw much tilled land along the coast and many settlements. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 About the other sides of it stretched a few acres of tilled land. What Necessity Knows Fire and sword and torture, the destruction of tilled lands, and even of the shell-fish on the shore, did not break the spirit of the Highlanders. A Short History of Scotland 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 The Nile is poured out in a stream by me, and it goeth round about the tilled lands, and its embrace produceth life for every one that breatheth, according to the extent of its embrace.... The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Such confiscation may, perhaps, be defended in the case of the United States, where the new-comers enormously outnumbered the Red Indians, and tilled land that previously lay waste. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) The tilled land, visible from the ship, reminded me of a large garden. A Trip Abroad They live principally upon seeds, and hence their forages are made chiefly in the tilled lands, where the weeds afford them an abundance of food. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 In England there was no corn, no meat, no cheese, no butter, there were no tilled lands, no harvests. A Child's History of England A hundred and fifty barons commanded the labor of nearly six thousand Negroes, held sway over farms with ninety thousand acres tilled land, valued even in times of cheap soil at three millions of dollars. The Souls of Black Folk The second district, Formartine, between the lower Don and Ythan, has a sandy coast, which is succeeded inland by a clayey, fertile, tilled tract, and then by low hills, moors, mosses and tilled land. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 A rich carpet of dark green overspreads the plain, where lighter spots indicate patches of tilled land and silver threads betray the presence of streams. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future And I would not change with Cæsar Pharamond, not I who am a respectable pawnbroker, with my home in fee and my bit of tilled land. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice But a gain to the country is only a king—for tilled land. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Outside, all round, the wide open country—grass and tilled land and hedges and hedgerow elms—is spread out before them. A Traveller in Little Things I doubt if there are now 500 acres of tilled land in the millions of square miles the mighty river drains. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America The tilled land grew less and with it dwindled the free population and the recruiting field for the army. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History A great deal of the tilled land is bog, a good deal of the waste land is shallow earth overlying rocks, some is cumbered with great boulders, and rough with heather and whins. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland And barren and desolate as it was when Raleigh received it, it soon became known as the best tilled land in all the country-side. English Literature for Boys and Girls An irregular terrace broke the slope above it, and here the tilled land had come to an end at one point because the plows came hard against a buried Roman wall. Masters of the Guild At last I got to the end of the tilled land. Five Weeks in a Balloon Some men were thrust out of tilled land on to waste land. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History "At the canal on the borders of the tilled land below the Temple of Horemkhu—it is close by," I answered. Cleopatra It should be completely land- locked, and there should be nothing in the way of human handiwork save a few chalets, or a small chapel and a bridge, but no tilled land whatever. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino He trotted over the slopes of tilled land near the Abbey, forded the river, circled a pond, and crossed a bog by froglike leaps from hassock to hassock. Masters of the Guild "There are thirty acres of tilled land," said one of the two personages still unknown to Godefroid, "six of meadow, and an enclosure containing four acres, in which our house, which adjoins the farmhouse, stands." The Brotherhood of Consolation To have been thoroughly on the prairie, and in the prairie, I should have been a day's journey from tilled land. North America — Volume 1 The frightful misgovernment of this country during the minority of Edward the Sixth, especially the conversion of tilled lands into pasture, had probably the effect of driving the surplus agricultural population into the great towns. Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc And yet, here was the city surrounded by tilled land and filled with people! Tarzan the Untamed |
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