Starting with agriculture, we learn that "among all the great groups of the 'natural' races, the Negroes are the best and keenest tillers of the ground.
Among the genuine tillers the whole life of the family is taken up in agriculture, and hence the months are by preference called after the operations which they demand.
Like tillers expecting auspicious showers of rain, the Pitris always expect that their sons and grandsons would make offerings unto them of food (in Sraddhas).
Thou shouldst invite those Brahmanas whose wives wait for their return like tillers in expectation of rain.
In this way he procured for the tillers of the soil the desired medium in the water, since the mouth of the canal was sometimes closed, sometimes opened, which was both a difficult and costly thing to do.
And even these arts were likely to attain the greater excellence in so far as the artisans and tillers of the ground were less disturbed by war and military service.
Indeed it is safe to say that until very recent times methods followed by tillers of the soil in quite a number of countries advanced very little upon those of the prehistoric man.
The twelfth century and first part of the eleventh before Christ were years of re-adjustment, the Israelites losing the habits of desert nomads and becoming tillers of the soil.
The wide gray velvet trousers from the pocket of which protruded the points of a pair of compasses distinguished him from tillers of the soil.
Nothing was more needed and sought after for thirty centuries among tillers of the soil than a good plough, and what finally supplied it was not necessity alone, but improved brains.
While prophets have lamented, and artists have painted, and poets sorrowed over the drudgeries of the tillers of the soil, the tillers have steadily and quietly and with infinite patience and toil worked out their own salvation.
Tillers of the Soil no Longer "Brothers of the Ox.
President McKinley was a man of moderate means, a man whose stock sprang from the sturdy tillers of the soil, who had himself belonged among the wage-workers, who had entered the Army as a private soldier.
The activities of our age in lines of research have reached the tillers of the soil and inspired them with ambition to know more of the principles that govern the forces of nature with which they have to deal.
The only other persons whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country as is the welfare of the wageworkers are the tillers of the soil, the farmers.
The tillers of land obtained the allotments of them for life, and new allotments were made from time to time.
As time went on, the system entirely fell through, and hereditary proprietorship of the tillers came tacitly into existence.
As a rule, they must first escape partly or wholly the environment of their pasture lands, either by emigration or by the intrusion into their midst of alien tillers of the soil.
These ambitious tillers look like savages, are shy as wild things of the woods, and work naked to the waist.
Agriculture, though underlying all permanent advance in civilization, is handicapped by the lack of courage, mobility, enterprise and large political outlook characterizing early tillers of the soil.
Thus the Vaisya caste were in ancient times the tillers of the soil.
Thanks, thanks, my brave fellows, faithful peasants, tillers of the soil!
The Indians, mostly Aymaras, are either tillers of the soil, or engaged in the transportation of goods by mule or llama, or are artisans of the ruder sort.
On the West of the river Triton next after the Auseans come Libyans who are tillers of the soil, and whose custom it is to possess fixed habitations; and they are called Maxyans.
For this reason 7 the Scythians put out the eyes of all whom they catch; for they are not tillers of the soil but nomads.
Here crowning the summits of these ancient mounds of an older race of tillers of the soil dwell the peaceful American farmers in their comfortable rural homes all unmindful of that other race who toiled here.
Year after year the tillers make constant drafts upon the vitality of the soil without an ounce of compensating manure, until all fertility is exhausted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tillers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
