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Meanings of untilled in English

Untilled.

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          1
          Chiefly plain, rude and untilled, because of the distresses of these times.
          A Monk of Fife / Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of...
          2
          In the country, fields were left untilled and harvests rotted on the ground.
          Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English
          3
          None knew who were the heirs to the deserted houses and untilled fields.
          Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
          4
          Thousands died of hunger, the towns were burned, and the soil left untilled.
          The Leading Facts of English History
          5
          The once productive cotton-fields of Thessaly lie untilled, and even around Constantinople itself-
          The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
          6
          Her fields lay untilled, her mines unexplored, and her fisheries uncultivated.
          The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer / With an Introductor...
          7
          Otherwise her mind, by no means a poor one, lay fallow and untilled.
          The Purple Heights
          8
          The soil was untilled; the manufactories had all stopped; trade had ceased to exist.
          History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
          9
          The region was wild in the sense that it was almost uninhabited and untilled.
          The Life of Abraham Lincoln
          10
          Where war is, the ground lieth waste and untilled; none takes care of it.
          Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
          11
          His real work, his essential labor in that untilled field, was no farther advanced.
          Burned Bridges
          12
          Our land lies half untilled; we cannot pay for the hire of day labourers.
          Alone
          13
          In 1776, four acres out of every seven remained untilled.
          The Unseen World, and Other Essays
          14
          They shall pay me twice over for my crops untilled and my buffaloes unfed.
          The Second Jungle Book
          15
          Here and there rice-fields, untilled, untended,{1} rise from the moist, clay soil.
          Glimpses of Bengal / Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindrana...
          16
          In Mayo, in two instances, I have seen a corner left untilled in a field.
          The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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