They were all wild, roving fellows, who loved the woods better than civilization; and their whole occupation, over and above tilling a very small patch of land, appeared to be hunting for wild game.
Their habitation, it would also appear, was remote from the settlements; and their principal occupation was hunting and trapping in winter, boiling sugar in spring, and tilling some ground they held during the summer.
The improvement in agriculture, or to speak literally, in the method of tilling the soil, is by no means great.
Here also every acre of land is turned to good account, but the method of tilling the land is very defective.
After that they essayed now one, now another, mode of tilling the dear plot of ground, and they saw that the earth made wild fruits into fruits of the garden, by a kindly and caressing culture.
I thought of tilling it in America, in which it was said there was plenty of wild, unclaimed land, of which any one, who chose to clear it of its trees, might take possession.
All of a sudden the idea of tilling the soil came into my head; tilling the soil was a healthful and noble pursuit!
I fancied myself in America, engaged in tilling the ground, assisted by an enormous progeny.
A wandering shepherd may build his camp-fire here, or an Arab who is tilling a bit of ground; but his home will be in Ayasaluk, several miles away, not here.
Formerly, the deities, while tilling the earth whereon they performed a sacrifice, used the goad for striking the bullocks yoked to the plough.
Hence, in tilling earth for such a purpose, one may, without incurring censure or sin, apply the goad to bullocks.
The society of those days appears as an agricultural mass consisting not of individual persons or natural families, but of groups possessed of the implements for tilling the land.
The contrast between the free ceorls tilling their own land and the band of military followers, who are always considered as personally dependent--this contrast is a marked one.
The facts we have been examining certainly suppose that in the villains we have chiefly to do with peasants tilling the earth and dependent on manorial organisation.
It is also obvious that the peasantry had to associate for the tilling of their own land, as it was very rare for the single shareholder to possess a sufficient number of beasts to work by himself.
We do this by taking these units of labor and capital away from the worthless marginal land and setting them to tilling that which is of the better quality.
In tilling the soil labor and capital yield less and less as more and more of them are used in a given area; and therefore both of these agents need to extend themselves widely over the land in order to use it economically.
By tillingten acres of a remote and sterile farm with as much labor and other outlay as a very good acre of land in England receives, one can perhaps get enough to pay the required wages and interest.
There are elements in what is commonly called land that wear out as do the tools that are used in tilling it, but these elements are not land in the economic sense.
She was urged to put the children into different homes, on account of their extreme poverty, but by tilling their garden, and doing some work for their neighbors, she managed to keep her little flock together.
He spent his time in writing several books, in tilling the soil, and in telling visitors the wonderful events of his life and of Anita.
If tilling your compost into soil seems to slow the growth of plants, then mulch with it and avoid tilling it in, or adjust the C/N down by adding fertilizers like seed meal when tilling it in.
Market gardeners near the Oregon coast sheet-compost crab waste, tilling it into the soil before it gets too "high.
After tilling it in, a short period of time was allowed while the soil digested this compost before sowing seeds.
You can easily create this type of temporary result by tilling a thick dusting of peat moss into some poor soil.
As useful as tilling rock powders into soil may be, the intense biological activity of the compost pile accelerates their availability.
The skip of a single season in tilling stunts the vines, and two or three skips in successive seasons ruin a vineyard.
Tilling when the soil needs pulverizing furnishes a greater feeding surface for the roots.
The tools to be used in tilling grapes vary with the topography of the vineyard, the kind of soil and the preferences of the vineyardist.
No one complains that grapes suffer from over-tilling as one frequently hears of tree-fruits.
Its population is mainly employed in tilling the surrounding fields.
But if possible the Brahman must avoid tilling the field himself; "the work of the field depends on the help of cattle; the ploughshare cleaves the soil and kills the living creatures contained in it.
If a Brahman could not earn a livelihood by service in war, he might lead the life of a Vaicya, and attempt to maintain himself by tilling the land and keeping flocks.
Of course, tilling of the soil could never satisfy them.
France in 1480; for Labeur in those days meant what it means now in the Terra di Lavoro--the tilling of the fields.
We buy the poor man's ground for a price, and we pay him his wages for tilling it for us--and we know better how to manage it than he.
These settlers had the fore-thought to carry with them farming implements to use in tilling the soil.
The colonists instead of building houses and tilling the soil to supply food, were bent upon finding gold.
The sons of the prosperous farmers do not take kindly to the tilling of the soil with their own hands.
In great part the Indians would become a cringing sudra caste, tilling the poorer lands and confined to the menial or repulsive occupations.
Now, at some distance from his own farm, there is another on which the laborers were working for their bread in the same way, by tilling the land.
It was with a sense of elation that he traversed these fields of his owntilling and sowing and reaping.
He recommended books for Fred to read, and what was more to the point sent a young man to plan his work and initiate him into the mysteries of tilling and fertilizing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tilling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
