uncultivated

• “In San Andrés isolated trees and small localized groups of trees survive, apart from secondary bushy vegetation in uncultivated areas or forming an irregular undergrowth among the crops of coconut palm, while there are some remnants of the forest in the central massif of Providencia.”

  Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests

• “As I have already said, we had from the beginning felt called especially for itinerating work, the work of looking out new fields and preparing the way for other laborers, the work of preparing the soil in uncultivated regions, that by twos and threes, and in greater numbers when God's time arrived, the sowers of the Word might come to dark Tibet to scatter the seed unto a glorious harvest.”

  With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior

• “The villages were abandoned, and the land lay around in uncultivated wastes.”

  The Scottish Chiefs

• “Job wrote his epic poem in a state of society which we should probably term uncultivated; and when Lamech gave utterance to the most ancient and the saddest of human lyrics, the world was in its infancy, and it would appear as if the first artificer in "brass and iron" had only helped to make homicide more easy.”

  An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

• “In this respect, the Persians, Turks, and the so-called uncultivated people, are much more generous than we are.”

  A Woman's Journey Round the World

• “But the difference between the states does not appear to me so great as the gentleman imagines; and I beg leave to say, that in proportion to the increase of population, the southern states will have greater weight than the northern, as they have such large quantities of land still uncultivated, which is not so much the case to the north.”

  Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at

• “Ignored was that local law stipulated that "uncultivated" land could be owned by individuals.”

  Printing: Israel's East Jerusalem Linked Settlement Expansion

• “And those who possess or have cultivated in themselves this fine moral sentiment of unselfishness, justice, and considerateness, will be surrounded by an atmosphere of culture though their dwelling-place be an uncarpeted cabin, while those who lack this restraining grace will be "uncultivated" though their surroundings afford every comfort, beauty, and luxury.”

  Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls

• “It is only the ill-bred, that is, the uncultivated imagination that will amuse itself where it ought to worship and work. ”

  A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

• “uncultivated" people, these "illiterates," in order to aid these "ignorant natives," we robbed them, the gentlemen who "had worked so hard," Look how we took what they had worked so hard for to give it to the idlers!”

  FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE LA COUBRE DISASTER

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