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Though King's life and death are well-tilled soil for historians, Sides took a new approach, crafting a compelling and unique narrative history of the stalking of King and the ensuing manhunt for his killer.

Martin Luther King's Killer: 'Hellhound On His Trail' Tells Story Of The Infamous James Earl Ray 2010

She dealt out well-tilled lands, wherever cloisters and pious folk were found.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

But in civilized life, where the State undertakes the protection of our person and property, the principle is no longer applicable: it stands, like the castles and watch-towers of the age when might was right, a useless and forlorn object, amidst well-tilled fields and frequented roads, or even railways.

The Wisdom of Life 2004

Weeds are not usually a problem provided the soil has been well-tilled just before planting.

Chapter 13 1987

Stump cuttings are produced by preparing a well-tilled, raised seedbed approximately 1 m in width.

Chapter 6 1985

Dwells in the well-tilled lowland a dark-haired Æthiop people,

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

The house is painted white, adorned with green jalousies, and surrounded by a well-tilled quarter acre lot.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

The Cabbage may be called a lime plant, and a clay plant; but, like almost every other plant that is worth growing, a deep well-tilled loam will suit it better than any other soil under the sun.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Leagues of territory now bearing a network of railroads and splendid highways, which carry rich harvests from the well-tilled farms, and connect numerous cities, was thought of ordinarily by the emigrants in early days only as it appeared to them, and then was, the stamping ground of savage tribes and the home of wild beasts, untouched by the transforming hand of civilization.

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method

A comfortable home on a well-tilled farm, that is every year increasing in value, is the ideal and happiest place for ambitions young people.

The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger