The fertileland surrounding this tank is occupied, among others, by a colony of Lingayats, of whom each household, as a rule, owns several acres of land.
He had written that he should start immediately for the broad West, to secure a home amid its fertile lands.
He read of its boundless extent, its fertile soil, its sources of wealth, and the facility with which a home and competence could be acquired, and nothing would satisfy him but to go there.
The whole of these two States were formerly inhabited by the buffalo, the fertile prairies of Illinois being particularly suited to their needs.
It is more than probable that had the bison remained unmolested by man and uninfluenced by him, he would eventually have crossed the Sierra Nevadas and the Coast Range and taken up his abode in the fertile valleys of the Pacific slope.
He conquered the whole country round Lake Van, ravaging the country "as a savage bull ravages and tramples under his feet the fertile fields.
But it was inevitable that the Arabs should settle in so fertile and pleasant a land.
It is said that women are fertile in inventions to further their schemes of personal gratification, vanity, or even mischief.
Its fertile black soil generated more than one fourth of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms provided substantial quantities of meat, milk, grain and vegetables to other republics.
Large tracts of fertile land, the application of modern technology, and subsidies have combined to make it the leading agricultural producer in Western Europe.
All these details sound like fairy-tales, like the dream of a fertile imagination; still they are described minutely by contemporary and serious writers, by Suetonius, by Martial and by Tacitus.
The rocks themselves crumble and decompose, and turn into a fertile mold.
Here was once the most fertile and beautiful part of Italy, celebrated for its flowers so that Virgil praised them.
Among the productions of his fertile intellect are works on rhetoric, logic, poetry, morals and politics, physics and metaphysics.
The soil is as fertile now as in the time of the historian; but owing to the neglect of the ancient canals, the greater part of this once populous district has been converted into alternating areas of marsh and desert.
Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south.
From time immemorial Arabia, except for the fertile strip of the Yemen to the south, had been a land of nomads, the headquarters and land of origin of the Semitic peoples.
This basin was much more fertile in the past than it is now.
Elsewhere upon fertile plains and in more open country there were probably already much larger assemblies of homes than in those mountain valleys.
But in the less fertile and more seasonal lands outside these favoured areas, there developed on the other hand a thinner, more active population of peoples, the primitive nomadic peoples.
Under Trajan there was a Roman province of 'Arabia,' which included the then fertile region of the Hauran and extended as far as Petra.
As the power of the Babylonian rulers spread out beyond the original areas of good husbandry into grazing regions and less fertile districts, a class of herdsmen came into existence.
The climate of this Mediterranean basin was perhaps cold temperate, and the region of the Sahara to the south was not then a desert of baked rock and blown sand, but a well-watered and fertile country.
Only a narrow strip about seven hundred yards wide of fertile wooded soil belongs to the Cossacks.
In this fertile wooded strip, rich in vegetation, has dwelt as far back as memory runs the fine warlike and prosperous Russian tribe belonging to the sect of Old Believers, and called the Grebensk Cossacks.
Not far from the shores of the Laguna de Bay lies the town of San Diego, surrounded by fertile fields and rice plantations.
Thank God that he has given you virtuous priests; and the Mother Country that she untiringly diffuses her civilization over these fertile islands, protected by her glorious flag.
These fertile fields, stolen from us, are ours; the buffalo are gone; we have no food, and our women and children are starving.
With the acquisition of fertile districts in Africa and elsewhere, not only did the need for home-grown commodities decrease, but it is probable that the profits of home farming decreased also.
The incomers were Waldenses; their religion was guaranteed protection, and their industry and thrift soon covered the desolate region with fertile farms.
We will follow the main stream, the Coker, through the fertile and beautiful vale of Lorton, till it is lost in the Derwent, below the noble ruins of Cockermouth Castle.
Immediately under the eye is a deep-indented bay, with a plot of fertile land, traversed by a small brook, and rendered cheerful by two or three substantial houses of a more ornamented and showy appearance than is usual in those wild spots.
He said that his fault was to be fertile to exuberance.
The Pawnees are divided into four tribes, scattered over the fertile borders of the Platte River.
It is the earliest title the citizens hold to seven thousand acres of the most fertile land in the West--perhaps in the world.
Rising in Yellowstone Park, it is formed by the junction of Gibbon and Firehole rivers, and at first flows north through a mountainous and rocky country; but in its lower reaches courses through a fertile valley.
The plain that commands a view of the lake is one of the [CCV] most fertile in the mountainous regions.
This arid valley, of which the missionary speaks, has been proved fertile under the influence of irrigation.
Its soil is fertile as that of the islands of which we have just spoken.
The march was uninterrupted down this beautiful and fertile valley.
But the scene Is lovely round; a beautiful river there Wanders amid the fresh and fertile meads, The paradise he made unto himself, Mining the soil for ages.
These restless surges eat away the shores Of earth's old continents; the fertileplain Welters in shallows, headlands crumble down, And the tide drifts the sea-sand in the streets Of the drowned city.
It has added not a little to our existing stock of knowledge in the various departments of natural history, and has made discovery in districts before untrodden, of an almost boundless extent of fertile country.
The country, though often fertileand beautiful, was in some places sandy and barren, and utterly destitute of water.
On the other side of the river the hills swept round, rising almost abruptly from its margin, with here and there small fertile valleys dividing the heights.
One day, after a night camp on the edge of a rather high table land, they started across a fertile plain that was covered with a rich growth of grass.
