英语词汇“untilled”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

If a rich field, a productive field, is the sign of success, then fallow and untilled soil, soul that is ignored, the scrubby, swampy, completely worthless tract of land, is what waste land was. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

Bare and untilled fields yield bones—skulls, femurs, pelvises, ribs—that lay exposed to the elements. “Dead Souls,” Reviewed: A Powerful New Documentary About Political Persecution in China 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

More and more, farmers are interested in not tilling their soil at all, for instance; untilled soil means reduced erosion and the preservation of its organic material. What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Rico About Feeding Itself 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Reduced tillage, already practiced by thousands of farmers, was once considered a major climate win because researchers saw carbon accumulate near the surface of untilled soils. Planting crops — and carbon, too 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Maguire’s lobbying for the brumbies is part of a backlash to a growing movement in Australia to correct historical narratives that cast white settlers as conquering an “empty” and untilled continent. Majestic Icon or Invasive Pest? A War Over Australia’s Wild Horses 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

The political landscape was never prepared, soil untilled, last-minute policies falling on stony ground. Devoid of agility, charisma and credibility, Corbyn has led Labour into the abyss | Polly Toynbee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

As part of the assessment, the agency wanted to overlay the two scientists' map with with another map projecting which untilled areas may one day become farmland. ‘Shocked and disappointed’: Pair of researchers say they felt pressed by federal wildlife officials to bury risk on endangered beetle 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

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

She’s not interested in imparting any new wisdom here or providing untilled ground to tread. Dark side of Vegas is revealed in ‘All the Beautiful Girls’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Zimbabwean Lands Minister Douglas Mombeshora argued that authorities were conducting an audit to determine the best use for farms and untilled land. Robert Mugabe threatens Zimbabwe’s white farmers with land seizures 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Larger measures that would help cut down on river pollution include low-impact development, where developers work to fit the natural landscape, and water-friendly agriculture practices such as switching to untilled soil, which reduces sediment runoff. Groups work to clean up river in South Dakota 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

He is talking about farming, specifically soil-conservation farming, a movement that promotes leaving fields untilled, “green manures” and other soil-enhancing methods with an almost evangelistic fervor. Farmers Put Down the Plow for More Productive Soil 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

While walking along the edge of Mr. Mackinnon’s field, Mr. Kile noticed a plant a few inches high growing in an adjacent area of untilled dirt. Tasmania, Big Supplier to Drug Companies, Faces Changes 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

But in spite of the popularity which the reproductions of their works and those of some of Mount's pictures enjoyed, the field remained comparatively untilled. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z

They not only filled the old channels, but over-ran them, irrigating, in appearance at least, a thousand fields hitherto untilled. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z

The field, which contained about ten acres, was cultivated—a small part only, around the consecrated spot, remained untilled. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z

Fall′owness, state of being fallow or untilled; Green fall′ow, fallow where land is cleaned by a green crop, as turnips. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z

Which will prevail, think you, in the struggle to possess the unoccupied and untilled lands of the Pacific shores of Mexico? Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z

Even this was to be but a nucleus, and at this moment much of the land then untilled is yielding abundance of grain. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z

The earth is not glad which lies untilled. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z

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

Moor, mōōr, n. a large tract of untilled ground, often covered with heath, and having a poor, peaty soil: a heath.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z

But, above everything, she liked him for being untilled soil, virgin earth. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z

She had believed that she should only find a great wall of rock, "deserted and untilled." Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z

St. Salvat's Castle is simply the headquarters of the smuggling business, presided over by my uncles and doubtless constituting the chief resource of this poor untilled corner of the world. Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century 2011-08-25T02:00:27.073Z

Something of the mystery of the ancient days hovers at night over these untilled places. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z

He was indeed so vexed with them that he left all his lands untilled, and his tanks and irrigation channels dried up. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z

I only indicate how large a portion of this explanatory field is yet untilled. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z

They clamour for electoral rights and leave all this vast field of influence unoccupied and untilled! Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z

Unless monks and nuns are regularly and entirely employed in useful labour, these evil weeds are certain to spring up in the untilled soil of the human heart. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z

Courtenay had marched the country round with agricultural labourers and others who had left their work in the fields to follow the Lord, and the farmers who thus saw their fields remaining untilled grew anxious. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z

In this way many villages were left deserted, the lands remained untilled, and the landowners found themselves suddenly deprived of the hands necessary for their work. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z

All around there were untilled fields, as like each other as peas in a pod. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z

"A field untilled, a web unwove, A flower withheld from sun or bee, An alien in the courts of Love——" Kipling. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z

So is an acre untilled, a mine unopened, a forest that bars the way to homes and human happiness. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z

Craven lies outspread in beauty—woods, hills, fields, and pastures charming the eye of one who comes from the untilled moors, and suggestive of delightful rambles in store. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z

He rode through the woods and the idle, untilled fields of his own estate, and was struck by the contrast between his own barren, unkempt lands with the thriving farms of his neighbors. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z

I reconnoitred the place cautiously from the back, where there was an untilled garden patch, and first made enough noise to rouse a dog, if there was one. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z

Nature presented an aspect on the rocky, untilled New England coast different from that in the civilized countries of the old world. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z

They had not deserted it till the last moment; their cattle had been stolen and their herds wounded, their land was untilled, and the little watercourse was choked with rubbish. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z

The sight of these hills, and the gradual succession of cultivation and woods by untilled slopes patched with gorse and bracken, impart an interest to the walk. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z

So do I feel that the mental faculties gain an abnormal intensity in proportion as the affections are neglected, and the soil of the heart left untilled. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z

His cattle and his ploughs were taken away, his fields are untilled, and his poor wife is left alone with two children. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z

He partially succeeds, and this half-success has the effect of restoring the lands about the castle, which were desert and untilled, to blooming fertility. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race

Low hills, bush-dotted and gullied, arose on every side except the southern one, where a small field, untilled and marshy, lay along a creek bed, now nearly dry. The Man from Jericho

There shouldn’t be an inch of untilled land on all the ranch, if the crops we have paid out just a little better. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch

The land lay untilled; the cattle, untended, strayed at will through the unfenced fields. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II)

I plow the untilled upland, I ripe the seeding grass, And fill the leafy forest With music as I pass. Later Poems

If they were weakened by bad usage, or driven from the domain by cruelty, the fields were untilled, the swine unherded, the baron and vassals without bread. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845

There was no single patch untilled, and no cultivation that was not up to the full limit of the soil's productiveness. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel

On the infertile Bagshot Beds the large area of the New Forest remains untilled under its ancient oaks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance"

I had left the southern Tyrol in the outburst of a glorious spring, but as I journeyed northward I found the rivers frozen, the roads encumbered with snow, and the fields untilled and dreary-looking. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune

Wars are to cease; the beasts of prey are to change their natures; the untilled earth is to bring forth fruits spontaneously; and peace, ease, and plenty are to reign supreme. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition

The opening up of the vast untilled grain lands of the Northwest has been followed by an influx of new blood from other countries, and particularly from the United States. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906

The city was divided into separate districts for the different races, the canals were dammed up, the water-works fell to pieces, the valley was left untilled, and fruit trees were unpruned and unwatered. Cathedrals of Spain

Churches and convents, castles and cottages, were all fallen into ruin, and brambles grew on the untilled land where once golden corn had waved. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens

My wife was dead at that time, and lonely and childless, as I then was, my whole heart that had lain so long untilled, was again enabled to bear genuine fruit. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I.

The wars had left them poor, untilled, in a wretched condition. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier

The field lies untilled for any one who will work it. Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions

While this world seems far too crowded to provide us work for all, Acres spread their untilled bosoms, while the nations rise and fall. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897

In North Dakota Mrs. Darrow had asked me to go into the untilled suffrage field. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V

The unproductive strips would have been left untilled even though no alternative use had been possible. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction

Instead of this, Italy presents to the traveller's eye a deplorable spectacle of wretched cabins, untilled fields, and a population oppressed by sloth and covered with rags. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge

The fields were untilled because no man could tell who would reap the harvest. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII

Those that failed to burst in the air exploded the minute they struck the hard untilled clay of the fallow fields and fragments flew in every direction. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

There were splashes of rolling meadows spotted here and there by other trees, untilled meadows sloping downward from the ridges to the river. Eight Keys to Eden

Crops prosper and crops fail, but we can’t let the soil go untilled.” Winning the Wilderness

Scarce an acre of land which would promise to reward the cultivator will be found untilled. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

Is one that manures his ground well, but lets himself lye fallow and untilled. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

From a tree there chirped the titmouse: "Osmo's barley will not flourish, Nor will Kaleva's oats prosper, While untilled remains the country, And uncleared remains the forest, Nor the fire has burned it over." Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes

These quarries are scattered over several square miles of untilled country, and the separate pits are to be numbered by the score. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization

It is a mystery not yet satisfactorily solved how within fifty miles of a city like New York so much land should be left unproductive and untilled. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science

To all white men Australia, with its vast tracts of untilled wheat land, holds out a welcome hand. Wheat Growing in Australia

The fields were untilled, houses had been sacked, population had declined, and famine and disease had spread a funereal shade over the dwellings of the poor. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges

Thousands were assembled behind this shanty in an open space of untilled ground, and the Virginian orator proceeded to address them. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After

They came, leaving their farms untilled, their forges cold, their axes and hammers still. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada

An iniquitous government breeds despair in men’s souls; its vexations depopulate the land, the fields remain untilled, famine, contagion, and pestilence stalk over the earth. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.

Like the doctor, the biologist was a specialist in books no less than in science, and his hobby comprised a field till recent times untilled. The Book-Hunter at Home

The latter were generally gloomy, thinking of the field untilled and the wife and little ones, perhaps, unfed. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

He owed his crops less to intelligent cultivation of the soil than to provident Nature in a new and untilled country. Union and Democracy

The land belongs to the nation, and all may freely turn their cattle on the untilled parts. Impressions of South Africa

There were no more hills, but the remaining country was all of hard untilled ground, with sprinklings of tamarisk and kali bushes, which showed we were entering on a new botanical region. Byeways in Palestine

The Indian summer wrapped with a soft touch of mourning purple much of desolation, much of untilled earth, and charred roof-tree, and broken walls. The Long Roll

The flame of roses that burns on every handbreadth of untilled ground and springs like a rainbow above the cloud of every darkling roof or wall. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida

Some of them also are accustomed to leave a part of their holding untilled in memory of their former and more prosperous life. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II

Journeying along, great was their surprise to find every town and village desolate of people; the fields untilled; and fields overgrown with weeds: nor man, nor woman, nor child was to be seen. The Seven Champions of Christendom

She first constrained bulls' necks to bear the yoke, And untilled ground with crooked ploughshares broke. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)

One may flush it in the grove, the forest, the peanut field, or the untilled prairie, and everywhere it is found engaged in the most highly satisfactory occupation of destroying insect life. The Bird Study Book

We dragged him over the yard until he raised a pile of dirt and leaves in front of him like a plow in an untilled field. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure

In the West and Southwest there are large tracts of public land untilled. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation

Almost the whole of the interior of Brazil still remains unsettled and untilled. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)

The fields in most places have been untilled and, in fact, the greater portion of the population, as well as our army, has to be fed from England. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War

For even her great untilled spaces are being covered by the foreign hand. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

I have read the expostulations of Mr. Finck about the untilled fields of Chopin. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques

Their followers, indeed, received no pay; but they had to be fed, and their estates were lying untilled for want of hands. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS

Day had of late turned his attention to horses, and the farm had a bleaker look in consequence, because many of its acres were left untilled. The Mermaid A Love Tale

But the cruel hand of war had devastated and impoverished the country, the slaves were freed, and the land for years lay untilled and neglected. The Statesmen Snowbound

I offer you a field hitherto untilled, left to the wandering winds and the birds of the air, extensive enough in its forlorn iniquity, I assure you, to engage your patient and continued efforts. Cape Cod Folks

His vengeance was so thorough that for nine years afterwards the land between York and Durham was untilled. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See

The war god calls, whate'er befalls His orders must be filled, Though work may stop in mine and shop, And farms may lie untilled. War Rhymes by Wayfarer

And it is astonishing how quickly good land left untilled reverts to its primeval condition, or, in the expressive language of the country, "goes back to bog." Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

Their malice and rudeness and apparent impertinences are due to lack of experience, to the fact that their manners are still untilled, I believe, rather than to intentional insult. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View

Page 140 Villages lay in ruins, surrounded by untilled fields and gardens run to seed. Bruges and West Flanders

In the country, fields were left untilled and harvests rotted on the ground. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality

England is now mistress of the field, and it will be her fault if she leaves it untilled. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

The soil, impoverished, wasted, untilled, rested under the shadow of the old names—the old customs. The Miller Of Old Church

For political reasons the Government discourages immigration from other countries, and therefore the untilled lands will have to be idle until there is a sufficiently large population to cultivate them. Roumania Past and Present

And all the untapped mineral wealth, and the untilled arable land; it would take years of litigation even to make the Company’s claim to Big Blackwater stick. Little Fuzzy

Where the flat fields were untilled they were very green, a green that was almost yellow, it was so bright. A Dozen Ways Of Love

Petrarch says that it is inconceivable how the city of Rome, whose adjacent fields were untilled, and whose vineyards had been frozen the year before, could for twelve months support such a confluence of people. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

Thousands died of hunger, the towns were burned, and the soil left untilled. The Leading Facts of English History

It was a holiday p. 262everywhere; the fields were left untilled, the carts were taken up to carry whole peasant families to the market-town of Arezzo, where the King was to spend the night. Rome in 1860

Harvests rotted on the ground and fields were left untilled not merely from scarcity of hands but from the strife which now for the first time revealed itself between capital and labour. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400

Lands were untilled, there was misery, and at last there was famine, and then discontent and demoralization extending to the upper classes, and a diminished income which finally bore upon the Tsar himself. A Short History of Russia

There would be more employment; the waste lands of the Old World, and the still untilled ones of the New World, would be taken up. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.

Within each colony, much of the land remained untilled, while the clan settlements appeared like little islands of cultivation in the midst of forest, waste, and common. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain

They are an untilled soil—none knows what they might produce, but the confidence of their leader, who is a wondrous man, bespeaks them a capable people. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt

His real work, his essential labor in that untilled field, was no farther advanced. Burned Bridges

Consider, that in his Stone Age agriculture and grains were almost unknown—the forest uncleared, the soil untilled, and hunting and fishing the sole or principal human activities. Science in Arcady

In Germany schools were closed for a third of a century, homes burned, women outraged, towns demolished, and the untilled land became a wilderness. The Art of Public Speaking

The ground lay untilled throughout that whole space for upwards of nine years. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)

A field untilled, a web unwove, A flower withheld from sun or bee, An alien in the courts of Love, And—teacher unto such as we! Songs from Books

The fields were untilled, and many square miles, stripped of men and cattle, were given over to the caprices of wild nature. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

Here, indeed, is an untilled field for those to whom the Irish Question is yet a living one. Ireland In The New Century

Surely, they had argued, God was not on the side of those who kept an untilled field. Mr. Britling Sees It Through

A great part of the country was left unsown and untilled, while the war gave no opportunities for importation from other countries. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I

The fields lay waste and untilled; the cattle, few in number, were mere bundles of skin and bone; the villages were half-emptied of their inhabitants, while those who remained resembled skeletons rather than human beings. For The Admiral

The little patches called gardens were mostly untilled, uncared for, squares of slimy moss, dotted with clumps of coarse ugly grass, but here and there were the blackened and rotting remains of sunflowers and marigolds. The Hill of Dreams

His own spiritual acreage was left absolutely untilled. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

We have cited authorities and quoted precedents and given examples: it was a matter of memory; while all the time the whole spiritual acreage was left untilled. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women

Sir Timothy, however, suffers for his injustice and wickedness, for "great part of the land lay untilled for some years, which was deemed a just reward for such diabolical proceedings." Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766

The olive-trees were still standing; where the house had stood there was a black, charred, roofless shell; the untilled fields lay bare beneath the frost. The Waters of Edera

Friend and foe have quartered there, until they have changed it into a desert; famine and pestilence hold sway there, and the despairing inhabitants have left their fields untilled and wander about shelterless and hungry. The Youth of the Great Elector

Others, without considering what a country has previously produced, and that at present the grain has not been planted, will declare unfertile the soil which has been untilled for some months. Common Sense, How to Exercise It

After clearing the woods, Don Luis came out into a large untilled space where the road turned back toward the estate and ended at an old two-winged gate protected with iron sheets and bars. The Teeth of the Tiger

We shall first endeavor by those simple means which lie to our hands, to know the areas of charm and imagination which remain as yet an untilled field of her domain. The Art of the Moving Picture

Then, if the farmer leaves a spot untilled, the dogrose pre-empts the place and showers its petals on the vagrant winds. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

All trade and commerce languish; in the country the fields remain untilled, in the towns the artisans are unemployed, nobody finds work or wages. The Youth of the Great Elector

Otherwise her mind, by no means a poor one, lay fallow and untilled. The Purple Heights

The fields are untilled; the roads are untravelled. Who Goes There?

Nor were land hunger and revenge the only motives that stirred them to aggression; meaner feelings were mixed with the greed for untilled prairie and unfelled forest, and the fierce longing for blood. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807

Their road led always upward, with a gradual, easy grade; and by noon they had left the cultivated section of the lower valley for the higher, untilled lands. The Eyes of the World

And you, my thoughtless Jack, and little Francis, think of the fate of those who left their land untilled, or heedlessly sowed tares for wheat. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island

The position of a little city surrounded with untilled land and an empty sepulcher was really not worth the trouble of decapitating mankind through the centuries. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel

Our consciousness of defects, of fields of effort untilled, of vast possibilities neglected and slipping away from us for ever, has never really slumbered again since the chastening experiences of the Boer War. An Englishman Looks at the World

The fields had gone untilled while the peasants, drunk with their new freedom, and without a care for the morrow, lived off the grain that had been saved up during the past years. The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe

Farms are untilled, enterprise deadened, invention crippled, education neglected; life is of little value; labor is the badge of servility,—laziness the very badge and passport of gentility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

He would be content to earn enough to live and to get drunk upon, and wide tracts of land would remain untilled. Jack Archer

Her fields lay untilled, her mines unexplored, and her fisheries uncultivated. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain

There were no fences at all by the roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

No one is ignorant of the difficulties that are met with in the conversion of untilled land into arable and productive land. What is Property?

About us stretches wealth of land, A boundless wealth of virgin soil As yet unfruitful and untilled! Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses

We went at an alert walk single-file for the better part of an hour and stopped at length in a narrow untilled "deadening." The Cavalier

Tilting its nose a trifle, fluttering as though undecided, the Parrott settled gracefully, with scarcely a Jar, upon a wide sweep of untilled land covered with short coarse grass. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama

As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Germans, for several years, left untilled the field where he was killed; and the inhabitants shewed it as a sacred spot. Paris as It Was and as It Is

None knew who were the heirs to the deserted houses and untilled fields. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

Her brain was a rich soil, although untilled, which began to teem of its own accord; and that, my dear fellow, was the beginning of the end of the old state of things. The Heavenly Twins

This untilled region is most artistic, the isolated clumps shooting up like bamboos out of the bare soil. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia

An unawakened country, dry and untilled, awaiting the hand of the master, it lifted westward in colored billows of undulating land. Together

Virginia, gradually desert the old seats of civilization, and advance further and further into the yet untilled country. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished

The land had lain desolate and uncultivated for many years, savage beasts had increased in the untilled solitudes, even as weeds and nettles grew in the gardens and vineyards of Samaria. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

Behind me the waste lands went rolling away untilled to the brown Toledo mountains. Castilian Days

Our land lies half untilled; we cannot pay for the hire of day labourers. Alone

The Island, the most part thereof, is mountainous and untilled. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01

For forty days that scene lasted; it was the time for sowing, and the whole land lay untilled. Discipline and Other Sermons

Our landholders or Zemindars, having vast areas of untilled land, are only too glad to encourage this immigration, and give the exiles, whom they find hard-working industrious tenants, long leases on easy terms. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter

Uncultivated land was free, and was at the service of any one willing to make it productive; if, however, it remained untilled for two years, it reverted to the crown. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes

Is one that manures his ground well, but lets himself lie fallow and untilled. Character Writings of the 17th Century

No spot of arable land is left untilled; and their cattle are infinitely prolific, so that when they take the field every man is followed by six, eight, or more horses for his own use. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

Farms were untilled, enterprise deadened, invention crippled, education neglected; life was of little value; labor was the badge of servility, laziness the very badge and passport of gentility. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17

In many villages I have seen whole tracts of land relapsed into purtee, or untilled waste, simply from want of bullocks to draw the plough. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter

Many a field remained untilled, many a plough stood still, because the husbandman had taken mercenary arms. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation

After a time it was realized that the war would not be short, that fields must not lie untilled for years, nor men undergo the deteriorating effects of trench warfare continuously. Mobilizing Woman-Power

We were in the rich blue-grass region, and though all of central Kentucky showed the marks of war's ravages, this region was comparatively unscathed, and the beautiful rolling country was neither abandoned nor untilled. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865

Here they were safe, provided that they never ventured out; but their fields were left untilled, and the governor was already compelled to feed many of them at the expense of the king. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

The region was wild in the sense that it was almost uninhabited and untilled. The Life of Abraham Lincoln

The house where the eviction was to be held was a miserable hovel, whose roof did not amount to much, sitting among untilled fields, with a small dung heap before the door. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland

But facts remain facts in spite of prejudice, and the Woman's Land Army, with faith and enthusiasm in lieu of a national treasury, are endeavoring to bring woman-power and the untilled fields together. Mobilizing Woman-Power

The earth, no longer barren and untilled, is decked with cities and farms and the fruits of cultivation; the sea has its ships, the islands their inhabitants. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01

The fields had lain untilled over half Canada; and, though four ships had arrived with supplies, twice as many had been captured or driven back by English cruisers in the Gulf. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

It took us about an hour to cross this untilled and unfenced strip. Over Prairie Trails

In Mayo, in two instances, I have seen a corner left untilled in a field. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland

Where war is, the ground lieth waste and untilled; none takes care of it. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02

Not all of the lands here were cultivated, and on the untilled areas herds of fifty to a hundred goats, pigs, cattle, horses and donkeys were grazing. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan

Nevertheless, the Iroquois war-parties broke in at various points, burning and butchering, and spreading such terror that in some districts the fields were left untilled and the prospects of the harvest ruined. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

To the left I found the first untilled land. Over Prairie Trails

Since they had no farm implements, no seeds, no means whatever of cultivating this ground apportioned to their use, it remained untilled while they grew hungrier day by day. Rainbow's End

Fenced fields, tilled and untilled, checkered the slope, with here and there a white farmhouse with its group of outbuildings. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret

Payment was of course made to some extent, as the country otherwise would speedily have been deserted and the land left untilled; but there was almost necessarily much oppression and high handedness. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce

Until he had read the reverse and obverse sides of life, his sense of morality had lain dormant and untilled. Half a Rogue

Rain or shine, in untilled mud or finely worked and deeply fluffed earth, I still plant 10 or 12 seed potatoes of an early variety. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway

If your idea of farming is to bury "some seeds" in untilled ground, regardless of suitability, and "wait till they come up," you will wait in vain for a decent crop. Three Acres and Liberty

Abandoning his crumbling shanty and untilled fields, he directed his steps eastwardly through the forest, a distance of about forty miles, to what is now Franklin County. David Crockett His Life and Adventures

Trees remained unfelled, the land untilled, while the men lay on the bare ground about the fort groaning and in misery. This Country of Ours

Divisions are to churches like wars in countries: where wars are, the ground lieth waste and untilled, none takes care of it. An Exhortation to Peace and Unity

It is easy for me to obtain the Tarantula at the desired moment: the part of the plateau in my neighbourhood left untilled by the vine-growers provides me with as many as are necessary. More Hunting Wasps

The scene of operations was an untilled, flinty plain, a harmas, as we call it in the district. The Mason-Bees

The dead cattle, the ungarnered crops, the untilled lands—every spring of wealth had dried up at the same moment. Sir Nigel

For hundreds of miles the country lay barren and untilled, inhabited only by wild Redmen, the nearest British settlement being five hundred miles away. This Country of Ours

The land of a farmer on service often remained untilled, and there are pathetic cases of families in bitter need because the breadwinner was in the army. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence

Let theories be discussed, by all means: the realm of the imagination is an untilled domain, in which every one is free to plant his own conceptions. More Hunting Wasps

I sometimes wandered with him into the depths of the forests, or led him over untilled grounds, hoping that change of scene and fatigue might divert his mind from its gloomy meditations. Paul and Virginia

They shall pay me twice over for my crops untilled and my buffaloes unfed. The Second Jungle Book

Moreover it is possessed neither by flocks nor by ploughed lands, but the soil lies unsown evermore and untilled, desolate of men, and feeds the bleating goats. The Odyssey Done into English prose

Chiefly plain, rude and untilled, because of the distresses of these times. A Monk of Fife

But, in a climate like that of Northeastern India, it takes but little time to transform a tract of untilled land into formidable wilderness. The Unseen World and Other Essays

Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest; The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The barn was on an untilled farm, the house having been destroyed some years before, and it was not near any other structures, so that, even in a high wind, no damage would result. Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air

I could continue my efforts to improve this, as yet, untilled corner of the earth; and to civilize those who dwelt in it, whose minds had hitherto lain dormant. The Country Doctor

The fields lay weedy and untilled; the starving peasant-folk took to the highway, every man preying on his neighbour. A Monk of Fife

She had gone very red in the face and stiffened in the Guelphic manner whenever Scrope was mentioned, and so a rich harvest of spiritual life had remained untilled for some months. Soul of a Bishop

Had not these lands remained untilled and desolate with long overgrowth, the tenacious roots of trees could never have shared the soil of one and the same land with the furrows made by the plough. The Danish History, Books I-IX

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例句	untilled If a rich field, a productive field, is the sign of success, then fallow and untilled soil, soul that is ignored, the scrubby, swampy, completely worthless tract of land, is what waste land was. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Bare and untilled fields yield bones—skulls, femurs, pelvises, ribs—that lay exposed to the elements. “Dead Souls,” Reviewed: A Powerful New Documentary About Political Persecution in China 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z More and more, farmers are interested in not tilling their soil at all, for instance; untilled soil means reduced erosion and the preservation of its organic material. What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Rico About Feeding Itself 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Reduced tillage, already practiced by thousands of farmers, was once considered a major climate win because researchers saw carbon accumulate near the surface of untilled soils. Planting crops — and carbon, too 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Maguire’s lobbying for the brumbies is part of a backlash to a growing movement in Australia to correct historical narratives that cast white settlers as conquering an “empty” and untilled continent. Majestic Icon or Invasive Pest? A War Over Australia’s Wild Horses 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z The political landscape was never prepared, soil untilled, last-minute policies falling on stony ground. Devoid of agility, charisma and credibility, Corbyn has led Labour into the abyss \| Polly Toynbee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z As part of the assessment, the agency wanted to overlay the two scientists' map with with another map projecting which untilled areas may one day become farmland. ‘Shocked and disappointed’: Pair of researchers say they felt pressed by federal wildlife officials to bury risk on endangered beetle 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z 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 She’s not interested in imparting any new wisdom here or providing untilled ground to tread. Dark side of Vegas is revealed in ‘All the Beautiful Girls’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Zimbabwean Lands Minister Douglas Mombeshora argued that authorities were conducting an audit to determine the best use for farms and untilled land. Robert Mugabe threatens Zimbabwe’s white farmers with land seizures 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Larger measures that would help cut down on river pollution include low-impact development, where developers work to fit the natural landscape, and water-friendly agriculture practices such as switching to untilled soil, which reduces sediment runoff. Groups work to clean up river in South Dakota 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z He is talking about farming, specifically soil-conservation farming, a movement that promotes leaving fields untilled, “green manures” and other soil-enhancing methods with an almost evangelistic fervor. Farmers Put Down the Plow for More Productive Soil 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z While walking along the edge of Mr. Mackinnon’s field, Mr. Kile noticed a plant a few inches high growing in an adjacent area of untilled dirt. Tasmania, Big Supplier to Drug Companies, Faces Changes 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z But in spite of the popularity which the reproductions of their works and those of some of Mount's pictures enjoyed, the field remained comparatively untilled. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z They not only filled the old channels, but over-ran them, irrigating, in appearance at least, a thousand fields hitherto untilled. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z The field, which contained about ten acres, was cultivated—a small part only, around the consecrated spot, remained untilled. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Fall′owness, state of being fallow or untilled; Green fall′ow, fallow where land is cleaned by a green crop, as turnips. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Which will prevail, think you, in the struggle to possess the unoccupied and untilled lands of the Pacific shores of Mexico? Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Even this was to be but a nucleus, and at this moment much of the land then untilled is yielding abundance of grain. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The earth is not glad which lies untilled. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z 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 Moor, mōōr, n. a large tract of untilled ground, often covered with heath, and having a poor, peaty soil: a heath.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z But, above everything, she liked him for being untilled soil, virgin earth. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z She had believed that she should only find a great wall of rock, "deserted and untilled." Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z St. Salvat's Castle is simply the headquarters of the smuggling business, presided over by my uncles and doubtless constituting the chief resource of this poor untilled corner of the world. Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century 2011-08-25T02:00:27.073Z Something of the mystery of the ancient days hovers at night over these untilled places. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z He was indeed so vexed with them that he left all his lands untilled, and his tanks and irrigation channels dried up. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z I only indicate how large a portion of this explanatory field is yet untilled. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z They clamour for electoral rights and leave all this vast field of influence unoccupied and untilled! Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Unless monks and nuns are regularly and entirely employed in useful labour, these evil weeds are certain to spring up in the untilled soil of the human heart. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Courtenay had marched the country round with agricultural labourers and others who had left their work in the fields to follow the Lord, and the farmers who thus saw their fields remaining untilled grew anxious. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z In this way many villages were left deserted, the lands remained untilled, and the landowners found themselves suddenly deprived of the hands necessary for their work. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z All around there were untilled fields, as like each other as peas in a pod. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z "A field untilled, a web unwove, A flower withheld from sun or bee, An alien in the courts of Love——" Kipling. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z So is an acre untilled, a mine unopened, a forest that bars the way to homes and human happiness. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Craven lies outspread in beauty—woods, hills, fields, and pastures charming the eye of one who comes from the untilled moors, and suggestive of delightful rambles in store. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z He rode through the woods and the idle, untilled fields of his own estate, and was struck by the contrast between his own barren, unkempt lands with the thriving farms of his neighbors. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z I reconnoitred the place cautiously from the back, where there was an untilled garden patch, and first made enough noise to rouse a dog, if there was one. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z Nature presented an aspect on the rocky, untilled New England coast different from that in the civilized countries of the old world. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z They had not deserted it till the last moment; their cattle had been stolen and their herds wounded, their land was untilled, and the little watercourse was choked with rubbish. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z The sight of these hills, and the gradual succession of cultivation and woods by untilled slopes patched with gorse and bracken, impart an interest to the walk. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z So do I feel that the mental faculties gain an abnormal intensity in proportion as the affections are neglected, and the soil of the heart left untilled. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z His cattle and his ploughs were taken away, his fields are untilled, and his poor wife is left alone with two children. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z He partially succeeds, and this half-success has the effect of restoring the lands about the castle, which were desert and untilled, to blooming fertility. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Low hills, bush-dotted and gullied, arose on every side except the southern one, where a small field, untilled and marshy, lay along a creek bed, now nearly dry. The Man from Jericho There shouldn’t be an inch of untilled land on all the ranch, if the crops we have paid out just a little better. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch The land lay untilled; the cattle, untended, strayed at will through the unfenced fields. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) I plow the untilled upland, I ripe the seeding grass, And fill the leafy forest With music as I pass. Later Poems If they were weakened by bad usage, or driven from the domain by cruelty, the fields were untilled, the swine unherded, the baron and vassals without bread. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 There was no single patch untilled, and no cultivation that was not up to the full limit of the soil's productiveness. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel On the infertile Bagshot Beds the large area of the New Forest remains untilled under its ancient oaks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" I had left the southern Tyrol in the outburst of a glorious spring, but as I journeyed northward I found the rivers frozen, the roads encumbered with snow, and the fields untilled and dreary-looking. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Wars are to cease; the beasts of prey are to change their natures; the untilled earth is to bring forth fruits spontaneously; and peace, ease, and plenty are to reign supreme. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The opening up of the vast untilled grain lands of the Northwest has been followed by an influx of new blood from other countries, and particularly from the United States. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The city was divided into separate districts for the different races, the canals were dammed up, the water-works fell to pieces, the valley was left untilled, and fruit trees were unpruned and unwatered. Cathedrals of Spain Churches and convents, castles and cottages, were all fallen into ruin, and brambles grew on the untilled land where once golden corn had waved. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens My wife was dead at that time, and lonely and childless, as I then was, my whole heart that had lain so long untilled, was again enabled to bear genuine fruit. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. The wars had left them poor, untilled, in a wretched condition. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier The field lies untilled for any one who will work it. Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions While this world seems far too crowded to provide us work for all, Acres spread their untilled bosoms, while the nations rise and fall. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 In North Dakota Mrs. Darrow had asked me to go into the untilled suffrage field. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The unproductive strips would have been left untilled even though no alternative use had been possible. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction Instead of this, Italy presents to the traveller's eye a deplorable spectacle of wretched cabins, untilled fields, and a population oppressed by sloth and covered with rags. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The fields were untilled because no man could tell who would reap the harvest. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Those that failed to burst in the air exploded the minute they struck the hard untilled clay of the fallow fields and fragments flew in every direction. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders There were splashes of rolling meadows spotted here and there by other trees, untilled meadows sloping downward from the ridges to the river. Eight Keys to Eden Crops prosper and crops fail, but we can’t let the soil go untilled.” Winning the Wilderness Scarce an acre of land which would promise to reward the cultivator will be found untilled. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Is one that manures his ground well, but lets himself lye fallow and untilled. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters From a tree there chirped the titmouse: "Osmo's barley will not flourish, Nor will Kaleva's oats prosper, While untilled remains the country, And uncleared remains the forest, Nor the fire has burned it over." Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes These quarries are scattered over several square miles of untilled country, and the separate pits are to be numbered by the score. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization It is a mystery not yet satisfactorily solved how within fifty miles of a city like New York so much land should be left unproductive and untilled. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science To all white men Australia, with its vast tracts of untilled wheat land, holds out a welcome hand. Wheat Growing in Australia The fields were untilled, houses had been sacked, population had declined, and famine and disease had spread a funereal shade over the dwellings of the poor. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Thousands were assembled behind this shanty in an open space of untilled ground, and the Virginian orator proceeded to address them. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After They came, leaving their farms untilled, their forges cold, their axes and hammers still. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada An iniquitous government breeds despair in men’s souls; its vexations depopulate the land, the fields remain untilled, famine, contagion, and pestilence stalk over the earth. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Like the doctor, the biologist was a specialist in books no less than in science, and his hobby comprised a field till recent times untilled. The Book-Hunter at Home The latter were generally gloomy, thinking of the field untilled and the wife and little ones, perhaps, unfed. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death He owed his crops less to intelligent cultivation of the soil than to provident Nature in a new and untilled country. Union and Democracy The land belongs to the nation, and all may freely turn their cattle on the untilled parts. Impressions of South Africa There were no more hills, but the remaining country was all of hard untilled ground, with sprinklings of tamarisk and kali bushes, which showed we were entering on a new botanical region. Byeways in Palestine The Indian summer wrapped with a soft touch of mourning purple much of desolation, much of untilled earth, and charred roof-tree, and broken walls. The Long Roll The flame of roses that burns on every handbreadth of untilled ground and springs like a rainbow above the cloud of every darkling roof or wall. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Some of them also are accustomed to leave a part of their holding untilled in memory of their former and more prosperous life. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Journeying along, great was their surprise to find every town and village desolate of people; the fields untilled; and fields overgrown with weeds: nor man, nor woman, nor child was to be seen. The Seven Champions of Christendom She first constrained bulls' necks to bear the yoke, And untilled ground with crooked ploughshares broke. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) One may flush it in the grove, the forest, the peanut field, or the untilled prairie, and everywhere it is found engaged in the most highly satisfactory occupation of destroying insect life. The Bird Study Book We dragged him over the yard until he raised a pile of dirt and leaves in front of him like a plow in an untilled field. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure In the West and Southwest there are large tracts of public land untilled. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Almost the whole of the interior of Brazil still remains unsettled and untilled. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) The fields in most places have been untilled and, in fact, the greater portion of the population, as well as our army, has to be fed from England. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War For even her great untilled spaces are being covered by the foreign hand. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays I have read the expostulations of Mr. Finck about the untilled fields of Chopin. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Their followers, indeed, received no pay; but they had to be fed, and their estates were lying untilled for want of hands. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS Day had of late turned his attention to horses, and the farm had a bleaker look in consequence, because many of its acres were left untilled. The Mermaid A Love Tale But the cruel hand of war had devastated and impoverished the country, the slaves were freed, and the land for years lay untilled and neglected. The Statesmen Snowbound I offer you a field hitherto untilled, left to the wandering winds and the birds of the air, extensive enough in its forlorn iniquity, I assure you, to engage your patient and continued efforts. Cape Cod Folks His vengeance was so thorough that for nine years afterwards the land between York and Durham was untilled. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The war god calls, whate'er befalls His orders must be filled, Though work may stop in mine and shop, And farms may lie untilled. War Rhymes by Wayfarer And it is astonishing how quickly good land left untilled reverts to its primeval condition, or, in the expressive language of the country, "goes back to bog." Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Their malice and rudeness and apparent impertinences are due to lack of experience, to the fact that their manners are still untilled, I believe, rather than to intentional insult. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Page 140 Villages lay in ruins, surrounded by untilled fields and gardens run to seed. Bruges and West Flanders In the country, fields were left untilled and harvests rotted on the ground. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality England is now mistress of the field, and it will be her fault if she leaves it untilled. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The soil, impoverished, wasted, untilled, rested under the shadow of the old names—the old customs. The Miller Of Old Church For political reasons the Government discourages immigration from other countries, and therefore the untilled lands will have to be idle until there is a sufficiently large population to cultivate them. Roumania Past and Present And all the untapped mineral wealth, and the untilled arable land; it would take years of litigation even to make the Company’s claim to Big Blackwater stick. Little Fuzzy Where the flat fields were untilled they were very green, a green that was almost yellow, it was so bright. A Dozen Ways Of Love Petrarch says that it is inconceivable how the city of Rome, whose adjacent fields were untilled, and whose vineyards had been frozen the year before, could for twelve months support such a confluence of people. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Thousands died of hunger, the towns were burned, and the soil left untilled. The Leading Facts of English History It was a holiday p. 262everywhere; the fields were left untilled, the carts were taken up to carry whole peasant families to the market-town of Arezzo, where the King was to spend the night. Rome in 1860 Harvests rotted on the ground and fields were left untilled not merely from scarcity of hands but from the strife which now for the first time revealed itself between capital and labour. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 Lands were untilled, there was misery, and at last there was famine, and then discontent and demoralization extending to the upper classes, and a diminished income which finally bore upon the Tsar himself. A Short History of Russia There would be more employment; the waste lands of the Old World, and the still untilled ones of the New World, would be taken up. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Within each colony, much of the land remained untilled, while the clan settlements appeared like little islands of cultivation in the midst of forest, waste, and common. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain They are an untilled soil—none knows what they might produce, but the confidence of their leader, who is a wondrous man, bespeaks them a capable people. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt His real work, his essential labor in that untilled field, was no farther advanced. Burned Bridges Consider, that in his Stone Age agriculture and grains were almost unknown—the forest uncleared, the soil untilled, and hunting and fishing the sole or principal human activities. Science in Arcady In Germany schools were closed for a third of a century, homes burned, women outraged, towns demolished, and the untilled land became a wilderness. The Art of Public Speaking The ground lay untilled throughout that whole space for upwards of nine years. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) A field untilled, a web unwove, A flower withheld from sun or bee, An alien in the courts of Love, And—teacher unto such as we! Songs from Books The fields were untilled, and many square miles, stripped of men and cattle, were given over to the caprices of wild nature. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Here, indeed, is an untilled field for those to whom the Irish Question is yet a living one. Ireland In The New Century Surely, they had argued, God was not on the side of those who kept an untilled field. Mr. Britling Sees It Through A great part of the country was left unsown and untilled, while the war gave no opportunities for importation from other countries. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I The fields lay waste and untilled; the cattle, few in number, were mere bundles of skin and bone; the villages were half-emptied of their inhabitants, while those who remained resembled skeletons rather than human beings. For The Admiral The little patches called gardens were mostly untilled, uncared for, squares of slimy moss, dotted with clumps of coarse ugly grass, but here and there were the blackened and rotting remains of sunflowers and marigolds. The Hill of Dreams His own spiritual acreage was left absolutely untilled. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen We have cited authorities and quoted precedents and given examples: it was a matter of memory; while all the time the whole spiritual acreage was left untilled. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Sir Timothy, however, suffers for his injustice and wickedness, for "great part of the land lay untilled for some years, which was deemed a just reward for such diabolical proceedings." Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766 The olive-trees were still standing; where the house had stood there was a black, charred, roofless shell; the untilled fields lay bare beneath the frost. The Waters of Edera Friend and foe have quartered there, until they have changed it into a desert; famine and pestilence hold sway there, and the despairing inhabitants have left their fields untilled and wander about shelterless and hungry. The Youth of the Great Elector Others, without considering what a country has previously produced, and that at present the grain has not been planted, will declare unfertile the soil which has been untilled for some months. Common Sense, How to Exercise It After clearing the woods, Don Luis came out into a large untilled space where the road turned back toward the estate and ended at an old two-winged gate protected with iron sheets and bars. The Teeth of the Tiger We shall first endeavor by those simple means which lie to our hands, to know the areas of charm and imagination which remain as yet an untilled field of her domain. The Art of the Moving Picture Then, if the farmer leaves a spot untilled, the dogrose pre-empts the place and showers its petals on the vagrant winds. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great All trade and commerce languish; in the country the fields remain untilled, in the towns the artisans are unemployed, nobody finds work or wages. The Youth of the Great Elector Otherwise her mind, by no means a poor one, lay fallow and untilled. The Purple Heights The fields are untilled; the roads are untravelled. Who Goes There? Nor were land hunger and revenge the only motives that stirred them to aggression; meaner feelings were mixed with the greed for untilled prairie and unfelled forest, and the fierce longing for blood. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 Their road led always upward, with a gradual, easy grade; and by noon they had left the cultivated section of the lower valley for the higher, untilled lands. The Eyes of the World And you, my thoughtless Jack, and little Francis, think of the fate of those who left their land untilled, or heedlessly sowed tares for wheat. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island The position of a little city surrounded with untilled land and an empty sepulcher was really not worth the trouble of decapitating mankind through the centuries. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Our consciousness of defects, of fields of effort untilled, of vast possibilities neglected and slipping away from us for ever, has never really slumbered again since the chastening experiences of the Boer War. An Englishman Looks at the World The fields had gone untilled while the peasants, drunk with their new freedom, and without a care for the morrow, lived off the grain that had been saved up during the past years. The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe Farms are untilled, enterprise deadened, invention crippled, education neglected; life is of little value; labor is the badge of servility,—laziness the very badge and passport of gentility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 He would be content to earn enough to live and to get drunk upon, and wide tracts of land would remain untilled. Jack Archer Her fields lay untilled, her mines unexplored, and her fisheries uncultivated. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain There were no fences at all by the roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz No one is ignorant of the difficulties that are met with in the conversion of untilled land into arable and productive land. What is Property? About us stretches wealth of land, A boundless wealth of virgin soil As yet unfruitful and untilled! Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses We went at an alert walk single-file for the better part of an hour and stopped at length in a narrow untilled "deadening." The Cavalier Tilting its nose a trifle, fluttering as though undecided, the Parrott settled gracefully, with scarcely a Jar, upon a wide sweep of untilled land covered with short coarse grass. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Germans, for several years, left untilled the field where he was killed; and the inhabitants shewed it as a sacred spot. Paris as It Was and as It Is None knew who were the heirs to the deserted houses and untilled fields. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Her brain was a rich soil, although untilled, which began to teem of its own accord; and that, my dear fellow, was the beginning of the end of the old state of things. The Heavenly Twins This untilled region is most artistic, the isolated clumps shooting up like bamboos out of the bare soil. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia An unawakened country, dry and untilled, awaiting the hand of the master, it lifted westward in colored billows of undulating land. Together Virginia, gradually desert the old seats of civilization, and advance further and further into the yet untilled country. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished The land had lain desolate and uncultivated for many years, savage beasts had increased in the untilled solitudes, even as weeds and nettles grew in the gardens and vineyards of Samaria. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Behind me the waste lands went rolling away untilled to the brown Toledo mountains. Castilian Days Our land lies half untilled; we cannot pay for the hire of day labourers. Alone The Island, the most part thereof, is mountainous and untilled. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 For forty days that scene lasted; it was the time for sowing, and the whole land lay untilled. Discipline and Other Sermons Our landholders or Zemindars, having vast areas of untilled land, are only too glad to encourage this immigration, and give the exiles, whom they find hard-working industrious tenants, long leases on easy terms. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter Uncultivated land was free, and was at the service of any one willing to make it productive; if, however, it remained untilled for two years, it reverted to the crown. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes Is one that manures his ground well, but lets himself lie fallow and untilled. Character Writings of the 17th Century No spot of arable land is left untilled; and their cattle are infinitely prolific, so that when they take the field every man is followed by six, eight, or more horses for his own use. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Farms were untilled, enterprise deadened, invention crippled, education neglected; life was of little value; labor was the badge of servility, laziness the very badge and passport of gentility. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 In many villages I have seen whole tracts of land relapsed into purtee, or untilled waste, simply from want of bullocks to draw the plough. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter Many a field remained untilled, many a plough stood still, because the husbandman had taken mercenary arms. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation After a time it was realized that the war would not be short, that fields must not lie untilled for years, nor men undergo the deteriorating effects of trench warfare continuously. Mobilizing Woman-Power We were in the rich blue-grass region, and though all of central Kentucky showed the marks of war's ravages, this region was comparatively unscathed, and the beautiful rolling country was neither abandoned nor untilled. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Here they were safe, provided that they never ventured out; but their fields were left untilled, and the governor was already compelled to feed many of them at the expense of the king. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV The region was wild in the sense that it was almost uninhabited and untilled. The Life of Abraham Lincoln The house where the eviction was to be held was a miserable hovel, whose roof did not amount to much, sitting among untilled fields, with a small dung heap before the door. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland But facts remain facts in spite of prejudice, and the Woman's Land Army, with faith and enthusiasm in lieu of a national treasury, are endeavoring to bring woman-power and the untilled fields together. Mobilizing Woman-Power The earth, no longer barren and untilled, is decked with cities and farms and the fruits of cultivation; the sea has its ships, the islands their inhabitants. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 The fields had lain untilled over half Canada; and, though four ships had arrived with supplies, twice as many had been captured or driven back by English cruisers in the Gulf. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV It took us about an hour to cross this untilled and unfenced strip. Over Prairie Trails In Mayo, in two instances, I have seen a corner left untilled in a field. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Where war is, the ground lieth waste and untilled; none takes care of it. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 Not all of the lands here were cultivated, and on the untilled areas herds of fifty to a hundred goats, pigs, cattle, horses and donkeys were grazing. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan Nevertheless, the Iroquois war-parties broke in at various points, burning and butchering, and spreading such terror that in some districts the fields were left untilled and the prospects of the harvest ruined. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV To the left I found the first untilled land. Over Prairie Trails Since they had no farm implements, no seeds, no means whatever of cultivating this ground apportioned to their use, it remained untilled while they grew hungrier day by day. Rainbow's End Fenced fields, tilled and untilled, checkered the slope, with here and there a white farmhouse with its group of outbuildings. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Payment was of course made to some extent, as the country otherwise would speedily have been deserted and the land left untilled; but there was almost necessarily much oppression and high handedness. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce Until he had read the reverse and obverse sides of life, his sense of morality had lain dormant and untilled. Half a Rogue Rain or shine, in untilled mud or finely worked and deeply fluffed earth, I still plant 10 or 12 seed potatoes of an early variety. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway If your idea of farming is to bury "some seeds" in untilled ground, regardless of suitability, and "wait till they come up," you will wait in vain for a decent crop. Three Acres and Liberty Abandoning his crumbling shanty and untilled fields, he directed his steps eastwardly through the forest, a distance of about forty miles, to what is now Franklin County. David Crockett His Life and Adventures Trees remained unfelled, the land untilled, while the men lay on the bare ground about the fort groaning and in misery. This Country of Ours Divisions are to churches like wars in countries: where wars are, the ground lieth waste and untilled, none takes care of it. An Exhortation to Peace and Unity It is easy for me to obtain the Tarantula at the desired moment: the part of the plateau in my neighbourhood left untilled by the vine-growers provides me with as many as are necessary. More Hunting Wasps The scene of operations was an untilled, flinty plain, a harmas, as we call it in the district. The Mason-Bees The dead cattle, the ungarnered crops, the untilled lands—every spring of wealth had dried up at the same moment. Sir Nigel For hundreds of miles the country lay barren and untilled, inhabited only by wild Redmen, the nearest British settlement being five hundred miles away. This Country of Ours The land of a farmer on service often remained untilled, and there are pathetic cases of families in bitter need because the breadwinner was in the army. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence Let theories be discussed, by all means: the realm of the imagination is an untilled domain, in which every one is free to plant his own conceptions. More Hunting Wasps I sometimes wandered with him into the depths of the forests, or led him over untilled grounds, hoping that change of scene and fatigue might divert his mind from its gloomy meditations. Paul and Virginia They shall pay me twice over for my crops untilled and my buffaloes unfed. The Second Jungle Book Moreover it is possessed neither by flocks nor by ploughed lands, but the soil lies unsown evermore and untilled, desolate of men, and feeds the bleating goats. The Odyssey Done into English prose Chiefly plain, rude and untilled, because of the distresses of these times. A Monk of Fife But, in a climate like that of Northeastern India, it takes but little time to transform a tract of untilled land into formidable wilderness. The Unseen World and Other Essays Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest; The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The barn was on an untilled farm, the house having been destroyed some years before, and it was not near any other structures, so that, even in a high wind, no damage would result. Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air I could continue my efforts to improve this, as yet, untilled corner of the earth; and to civilize those who dwelt in it, whose minds had hitherto lain dormant. The Country Doctor The fields lay weedy and untilled; the starving peasant-folk took to the highway, every man preying on his neighbour. A Monk of Fife She had gone very red in the face and stiffened in the Guelphic manner whenever Scrope was mentioned, and so a rich harvest of spiritual life had remained untilled for some months. Soul of a Bishop Had not these lands remained untilled and desolate with long overgrowth, the tenacious roots of trees could never have shared the soil of one and the same land with the furrows made by the plough. The Danish History, Books I-IX
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