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  • But occasionally — as in the fleeting black and white "Night Light," the rustling orange "Tilled Field," the delicate winter sunset "Western Sky" and the bold, muscular dance of blood and fire that is "Red Sky at Night" — Ms. Freda, internalizing and synthesizing a range of influences, achieves brevity, poetry.

    Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire Lance Esplund 2011

  • Tilled soil for crops is by far worse for the environment than properly grazed grasslands.

    A better way to die? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Enquirer of Oct. 11, 2005: Tilled soil yields missing headstone of 3-year-old

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Tilled earth, chickens, sheep, goats, pigs ... this island could support a substantial settlement.

    Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000

  • Tilled farmland gave way to thorny scrub and the heat of Jaric's anger ebbed, leaving loneliness.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Tilled trees make nearly twice the growth in a season that those in sod do, in fact there is danger of their making wood growth at the expense of fruit buds.

    Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

  • Tilled trees have a darker, richer green foliage, indicating a better and more vigorous health.

    Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

  • Tilled fields showed here and there, no larger in appearance than so many outspread handkerchiefs.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • We give it here, together with the yields of the various grains and roots: Crop Area Tilled in Acres Average Yield in Bushels

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Tilled fields showed here and there, no larger in appearance than so many outspread handkerchiefs.

    The Certain Hour 1909

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