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Example sentences for "untilled"

Lexicographically close words:
untie; untied; unties; until; untill; untimely; untinctured; untinged; untired; untiring
  1. The land had lain desolate and uncultivated for many years, savage beasts had increased in the untilled solitudes, even as weeds and nettles grew in the gardens and vineyards of Samaria.

  2. She first constrained bulls' necks to bear the yoke, And untilled ground with crooked ploughshares broke.

  3. If the land is allowed to remain untilled after a rain or during a hot spell, the water in it will evaporate too rapidly and thus the soil, like a well, will go dry too soon.

  4. Wheat sowed on land that was plowed as soon as the summer crops were taken off yielded a very much larger return than wheat sowed on land that remained untilled for some time after the summer crops were gathered.

  5. Virginia, gradually desert the old seats of civilization, and advance further and further into the yet untilled country.

  6. The house where the eviction was to be held was a miserable hovel, whose roof did not amount to much, sitting among untilled fields, with a small dung heap before the door.

  7. In Mayo, in two instances, I have seen a corner left untilled in a field.

  8. Passing that way the virgin pitiless Land in the middle of the fen descried, Untilled and naked of inhabitants; There to escape all human intercourse, She with her servants stayed, her arts to practise And lived, and left her empty body there.

  9. The season was a backward and wet one, and the fields, partly from this cause, and partly from the people being engaged in the late struggle, lay untilled and neglected.

  10. I had left the southern Tyrol in the outburst of a glorious spring, but as I journeyed northward I found the rivers frozen, the roads encumbered with snow, and the fields untilled and dreary-looking.

  11. And finally, what is more fruitful, in these times of misery, he becomes the possessor of abandoned lands that have remained untilled for ten years.

  12. In many villages I have seen whole tracts of land relapsed into purtee, or untilled waste, simply from want of bullocks to draw the plough.

  13. Their road led always upward, with a gradual, easy grade; and by noon they had left the cultivated section of the lower valley for the higher, untilled lands.

  14. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.

  15. The rents derived hitherto from the free tenants, natives of the soil and cottagers, had been L12 a year, now it is declared that there are no tenants at all, and that the land is lying untilled and useless.

  16. After a time it was realized that the war would not be short, that fields must not lie untilled for years, nor men undergo the deteriorating effects of trench warfare continuously.

  17. But facts remain facts in spite of prejudice, and the Woman's Land Army, with faith and enthusiasm in lieu of a national treasury, are endeavoring to bring woman-power and the untilled fields together.

  18. Untilled breadths of prairie round about begin to show scars.

  19. The untilled hills of the reservation thrust themselves up in the August sunshine like the emaciated joints of one bedridden.

  20. The untilled hills of the reservation thrust themselves up into the autumn glare, unashamed of their poverty of soil.

  21. Nevertheless, the Iroquois war-parties broke in at various points, burning and butchering, and spreading such terror that in some districts the fields were left untilled and the prospects of the harvest ruined.

  22. The fields had lain untilled over half Canada; and, though four ships had arrived with supplies, twice as many had been captured or driven back by English cruisers in the Gulf.

  23. Sir Timothy, however, suffers for his injustice and wickedness, for "great part of the land lay untilled for some years, which was deemed a just reward for such diabolical proceedings.

  24. The wild kind grows in divers parts of this land plentifully by the field-sides, and untilled places.

  25. They grow almost every where, as well on tops of walls, as at the foot amongst rubbish and untilled grounds, but especially in gardens.

  26. They grow in many places by old walls, hedges and way-sides in untilled places; and being once planted in a garden, especially some shady places, it will remain there.

  27. They grow in the way-sides in untilled places, and by the sides of old walls.

  28. This grows in many places of our land in waste untilled and barren fields.

  29. They grow, both of them, wild in pastures, and untilled grounds in many places, and oftentimes both in one field.

  30. The two first grow wild in barren or untilled places, and by the way side in many places of this land.

  31. These grow on heaths, and many open untilled places of this land.

  32. It grows in all counties of this land, by walls and hedge-sides, in waste grounds and untilled places.

  33. Gerarde grew this plant in his garden, but he tells us that it is a native of Italy and Languedoc, where it flourishes in certain untilled and sunny places.

  34. The land belongs to the nation, and all may freely turn their cattle on the untilled parts.


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