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The friendly native has fled for his life; the patches of lowland once planted with sweet potatoes or rows of hemp-trees, are merging into jungle for want of the tiller's hand.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Another mode is, to make the people mourn their folly, through the passions of their rulers, and then come wars, taxes, oppression, waste of blood and treasure; or the clouds of heaven are sealed and the parched earth responds not to the tiller's toil; mildew blights the ungathered harvest, pestilence wastes population, or the red rain of battle drenches the land with sorrow, and captivity is the doom of the nation.

Proceedings of the Bible Convention of the Confederate States of America : including the minutes of the organization of the Bible Society, Augusta, Ga., March 19th-21st, 1862 : and also a sermon preached before the convention by the Rev. George F. Pierce, D.D., Bishop of the M. E. Church, South, Ga. 1862: Augusta 1862

Another mode is, to make the people mourn their folly, through the passions of their rulers, and then come wars, taxes, oppression, waste of blood and treasure; or the clouds of heaven are sealed and the parched earth responds not to the tiller's toil; mildew blights the ungathered harvest, pestilence wastes population, or the red rain of battle drenches the land with sorrow, and captivity is the doom of the nation.

The word of God a nation's life : a sermon, preached before the Bible Convention of the Confederate States, Augusta, Georgia, March 19th, 1862, 1862

"Good-day, old chap," said the last who made his exit; "tiller's fixed agin -- nailed amidships? eh!"

The World of Ice 1859

"Good day, old chap," said the last who made his exit; "tiller's fixed agin -- nailed amid-ships, eh?"

The World of Ice 1859

But he is unaware that these plants will become poison because his oppressors will take them and gain strength from his (the tiller's) produce and will oppress him even more than previously.

a reader's words rw 2009

But he is unaware that these plants will become poison because his oppressors will take them and gain strength from his (the tiller's) produce and will oppress him even more than previously.

a reader's words 2009

When he wrote with feeling - whether it was about the 'golden dust' or about the tiller's right to a piece of land, or about petty oppressors with 'the courage of the sparrow and the guts of the rat', he set standards of excellence that are unlikely to be equalled.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2008