Meanings of tilled the soil in English

Then they tilled the soil, and learned to love their new abode.

The purchased slaves and unfree tribes tilled the soil, and practised the mechanic arts.

One tilled the soil and the other was a shepherd.

Then farmers and manufacturers followed the gold-hunters; they tilled the soil to feed the miners.

Hardly the simple peasantry-theboors-who tilled the soil.

They were frontier farmers, who chopped down the forest and tilled the soil with their own hands.

Armies of negroes tilled the soil, and were happy in their circumscribed sphere, humanely cared for by the whites.

The Slavs were a people who tilled the soil, cherished free institutions, fought on foot, were gentle in character.

Little Marie kept her three sheep on the common, and Germain tilled the soil as though nothing had happened.

Then they had left off the skins of beasts, had put on cloth, tilled the soil, planted the vine.

But who tilled the soil?

But Mochuda, as we have already said, had no cattle, for it was the monks themselves who dug and tilled the soil.

The old nobility had grown too overbearing; the men and women who tilled the soil were considered hardly better than mere beasts of burden.

They mounted comparatively high in the scale of civilization; they tilled the soil, worked mines, cultivated various forms of art, and even built towns.

The earth was mine, and men were mine, with their thoughts, their works, the implements with which they tilled the soil, and their posterity.

The small amount of cultivation indicated but too plainly that they expected another plunder, and just tilled the soil enough to meet their immediate wants.