Mountains and hills are terraced and tilled far up their slopes.
In the well-tilled Fiji Islands, a pregnant girl is strangled and her seducer slain.
In addition to the large plantations, cultivated by several tenant farmers, the number of small farms tilled by independent owners or renters increased.
After the day of Ripley's brilliant colony the broad acres of Brook Farm were tilled by the town poor, and--"to what base uses!
In the foreground, to the left, was an acre or two oftilled soil.
Again and again I came upon farm land, small patches of tilledsoil which the stubborn strength of man had wrested from the wilderness to supply his needs.
A strip of tilled ground invariably flanked the gentler slopes of those cottage estates, and on the beach, dories and boats betokened that the owners farmed both land and sea.
These were cultivated and managed by armies of slaves, who not only tilledthe land, but supplied their master, his household, and themselves with all that was needed on the plantation.
It rarely occurred to a mediæval chronicler to describe the familiar things about him, such as the way in which the peasant lived and tilled his land.
They tilled such part of the estate as the owner reserved for his own particular use, and provided for his needs and their own without the necessity of buying much from the outside.
A great part of the third estate lived in the country and tilled the soil.
He argues that it was natural to divide the land tilled by a mixed plough-team among the owners of the several beasts and implements.
Such a system of extortion was destructive to those who tilled the soil, and if it brought in more money for the landlord, it produced nothing but misery and discontent for his tenant.
Around the monasteries stretched their well-tilled lands, mostly reclaimed from fen or forest, and probably more scientifically cultivated than those of the neighbouring manors.
He received an original lot in the conquered land, and remained a private possessor of estates, tilledby his Welsh slaves.
The desolate land will be tilled so that those who pass through the land will say: "This land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
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.
Even the bits which are left are heavily mortgaged, and, like the rest of the land, tilled by tenants.
They have tilled the ground until it resembles a garden, they have deepened the rivers, built harbours, created industries, been in every way successful.
But let this change come about, once let that bill become law, and all Protestants must leave the island, must give up the land they have tilled and tended until it is like a garden, and seek their fortunes elsewhere.
The Helots tilled their ground for them, and paid them yearly in kind the appointed quantity, without any trouble of theirs.
Men have convinced themselves that land tilled by its owner gives one half more grain and vegetables than land tilled by captives.
Listen to the plea: “All the fields cleared and tilledin this broad south land, we cleared and tilled them.
There he married, built a log cabin, and hunted, chopped trees, and tilled the ground like any other frontiersman.
When he and his fellows tilled the stump-dotted fields of corn, one or more of the party were always on guard, with weapon at the ready, for fear of lurking savages.
He tilled the land, and he chopped the trees himself; he helped to build the cabins and stockades with his own hands, wielding the longhandled, light-headed frontier ax as skilfully as other frontiersmen.
The owner who tilledthe soil was transformed into a tenant or into a wage-laborer.
With the nobility the average estate tilled exclusively with the peasant sohá is more than twice as large as the corresponding average with the capitalist class.
The soil being tilled by its owner’s labor, the farmer is supposed to raise live stock.
The smaller estates are tilled with the primeval peasant sohá, ploughs being only too seldom used by the peasantry.
Each would possess its own group of villages, and tilled lowland, its own boundary of forest, and its own camp of refuge on the hill-tops.
So we drove on till we came to a more open country of meadows and tilled fields and stray farmsteads, but with woods beyond again, and over these a peep of distant hills with misty clouds upon them.
I have had the landtilled as far as Abu [Elephantine].
This man hired of us a piece of land for tillage, and tilled it awhile; then left it fallow and neither tilled it nor forsook it, that we might let it to one who would till it.
The gravelling of his clay soils elicited some amusing comments from his neighbours, one of whom remarked that he had seen land tilled (manured) in various ways, but had never before seen a field tilled with cobble-stones!
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