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Example sentences for "tilth"

Lexicographically close words:
tilling; tillon; tills; tilt; tilted; tilting; tilts; tima; timaguas; timbale
  1. Tilth masters that have corn of their own growing and sell it to others.

  2. The rich Lombard tilth of maize and vine gives place to English-looking hedgerows, lined with oaks, and studded with handsome dark tufts of green hellebore.

  3. Far and wide stretches a landscape rich with tilth and husbandry, boon Nature paying back to men tenfold for all their easy toil.

  4. Y: Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will; but do some good act for your souls beforehand; and fear Allah.

  5. S: And when he turns back, he runs along in the land that he may cause mischief in it and destroy the tilth and the stock, and Allah does not love mischief-making.

  6. Y: "Go ye to your tilth (betimes) in the morning, if ye would gather the fruits.

  7. Y: To any that desires the tilth of the Hereafter, We give increase in his tilth, and to any that desires the tilth of this world, We grant somewhat thereof, but he has no share or lot in the Hereafter.

  8. S: Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce).

  9. Come then, and learn what tilth to each belongs According to their kinds, ye husbandmen, And tame with culture the wild fruits, lest earth Lie idle.

  10. But ere our metal cleave An unknown surface, heed we to forelearn The winds and varying temper of the sky, The lineal tilth and habits of the spot, What every region yields, and what denies.

  11. Extra expenditure to secure good tilth is amply repaid by increased growth in the grape, and all subsequent care may fail to start the vines in vigorous growth if the land is not in good tilth preparatory to planting.

  12. Good tilth should proceed until the earth is fairly animated with growth when the vines are planted.

  13. Maintain a good tilth by the frequent use of the hoe during summer, and as autumn approaches regularly remove all decaying leaves.

  14. Early in that month break the soil down to a fine tilth and make it quite firm by treading, or by rolling.

  15. Far on every side stretches a homely landscape, tilth and pasture, hedgerow and clustered trees, to where the sky rests upon the gentle hills.

  16. Flowers, perhaps, at all events those of tilth and pasture, will have been all but improved away.

  17. On a heavy soil it has a bad influence if used repeatedly and in quantity, causing the land to "run," and making the tilth bad.

  18. The worth of 'winter tilth of a cyvar two legal pence;' and so p.

  19. To-day her tender feet must tread Rough rocky wilds around her spread: No tilth is there, no gardens grow, No crowding people come and go.

  20. And this was Vasu’s old domain, The fertile Magadh’s broad champaign, Which smiling fields of tilth adorn And diadem with golden corn.

  21. Furthermore, he set in the shield a soft fresh ploughed field, rich tilth and wide, the third time ploughed, and many ploughers therein drove their yokes to and fro as they wheeled about.

  22. Latinus the King, now growing old, ruled in a long peace over quiet tilth and town.

  23. Rumour is that the old Pelasgians, who once long ago held the Latin borders, consecrated the grove and its festal day to Silvanus, god of the tilth and flock.

  24. In Sicilian territory too is tilth and town, and famed Acestes himself of Trojan blood.

  25. That tilth harrowde finely, set sede time an ende: and praise, and pray God a good haruest to sende.

  26. That tilth being done, thou hast passed the wurste: then after, who plowgheth, plowgh thou with the furste.

  27. For the beginnings of tilth and agriculture are now sought not in the swampy lowlands, but on the heights where a clearance brought sunlight and fruitfulness.

  28. It brought with it the practice of tilth and agriculture, and led to the domestication of some of the smaller animals and the invention of weaving and spinning, achievements with which it is recognised that women must be credited.

  29. Sandy and loamy soils naturally remain open and workable and sustain good tilth with surprisingly small amounts of organic matter.

  30. Hopp says that soil tilth can be improved a great deal merely by assisting worms over a single winter.

  31. Earthworm casts (excrement) are mechanically very stable and help create a durable soil structure that remains open and friable, something gardeners and farmers call good tilth or good crumb.

  32. Compost is also reputed to make enormous improvements in the workability, or tilth of the soil.

  33. The difference between good and poor tilth is like night and day to someone working the land.

  34. If humus declines, the entire soil ecology runs down and with it, soil tilth and the health and productivity of plants.

  35. However, a soil with good tilth will permit multiple irrigations and a fair amount of foot traffic without compacting or crusting.

  36. I conclude that organic matter is somewhat dangerous stuff whose use should be limited to the amount needed to maintain basic soil tilth and a healthy, complex soil ecology.

  37. Or have the Trojans allotted thee some lot of ground more choice than all the rest, fair land of tilth and orchard, that thou mayest dwell therein, if thou slay me?

  38. Furthermore he set in the shield a soft fresh-ploughed field, rich tilth and wide, the third time ploughed; and many ploughers therein drave their yokes to and fro as they wheeled about.

  39. In other words, it does not often happen that soils are in too fine tilth to sow seed upon them without such fineness resulting in positive benefit to the plants.

  40. It improves the tilth by means of the shade furnished, and the extent to which the roots fill the soil.

  41. Some soils are naturally friable, and in these a tilth sufficiently fine can be realized ordinarily with but little labor.

  42. He then gives the field a heavy dressing with wood ashes and puts it into the best possible tilth before planting his tomatoes.

  43. Tomato roots are also exceedingly tender and incapable of penetrating a hard and compact soil, so that the condition of the soil as to tilth is of greater importance with regard to tomatoes than with most garden vegetables.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tilth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cultivation; culture; farming; husbandry; hydroponics