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    1. Herndon had looked almost bored till then but snapped to attention with that revelation


    2. In case of hoarseness, rest the throat without misuse till hoarseness passes


    3. He won't be back till next week at the earliest


    4. He'd done all the bookkeeping till she joined the household and he cooked most of the meals


    5. She withdrew her hands from his butt, not noticing they'd gone there till she noticed it wasn't returned


    6. "Redhead?" Herndon was concerned, "the same Venna who was with Tahlmute till he got mixed up in that shonggot scandal?"


    7. And, he is away in henarDee till next week


    8. His nation still survived till the end, it was probably the last surviving mortal democracy


    9. Run through blender till liquefied


    10. This was not the case till say a decade back

    11. In India, we hear that the government may be planning to limit pension till the age of 75


    12. · The retirement period could be further subdivided into phases such as (i) when you are still as active as earlier say till 65-68, (ii) you need to slow down and take-up less strenuous activities say till around 70-72 and (iii) the traditional retirement when your health concerns take over fully


    13. It was only a little more than an hour till they were out on the open lake where he opened the throttle full and pounded over the water in the last gloom of dusk


    14. It's four years till the first possible impact


    15. It was forty two hours till daylight and the temperature would probably drop sixty degrees from its current seventy one or so


    16. For example, if you mention your child as the owner of your home but you expect your spouse to reside there till his/her death, then a mention must be made in the will to this effect


    17. Without that, it will be nearly a year till I can reach you


    18. They would not depart till Afternoonday wake-up, that would be plenty of time for her business


    19. The real strength was waiting patiently for her return wasn't it? As well as letting her know that he would be fine until then, and letting her know that her position with him was secure, though it was filled by a temp till then


    20. He had to have the kedas slow way down till he was sure they were going to get under one stone arch where they went under a canal

    21. He learned that an overdose was a very real danger and that it erased the brain, leaving the body a vegetable till it died


    22. It was not a very famous star till then, doostEr had never heard of it before


    23. As it was, this held them up till lunch time


    24. "If he finds one his age or an adult who will join with him we might not see him till dawn


    25. "I think we should remain calm till we know more," doostEr said


    26. "I do remember it will be more than half a decade till it happens, whatever the odds are


    27. I promise you Morg will be next up," she said, "Till then you'll have to be content with me and cherubs


    28. "The time till then is not even a small mark on the future we have in front of us


    29. There’s some question about whether the man had been caught with his hand in the till which will need looking into, but the net result is that Sadler’s story no longer holds water


    30. The detector on the geosynchronous is out and we didn't see him till he came round the limb of the planet

    31. They did not have to wait till he was in full sunlight, the systems would work with skylight or under clouds, but would not work for forty hours of darkness, half of the globe was without data service at any one time


    32. He would never think of dialing out hunger, so over a hearty breakfast of eggs, ham and grits, she was going to have to tell him, there was less than ninety minutes till that shutlecraft docked with the Lula at this point and less than half an hour till they had to be in the androids to greet them


    33. The council slipped to another space to deliberate, they soon announced that they would need a continuance till next week


    34. So no serious planning could be done till a map was drawn


    35. It wouldn't effect anyone's duty or life very much one way or the other, all it did was change the time till they became a growing community once again


    36. She had been his second wife and still the most fun till the end


    37. Finally, seeing I hadn't phoned her till yesterday afternoon, she called me at about 4:00 pm and asked me whether I intended to come or not; then she commented jokingly: “Those who don't bring an expensive present, won't come in!”


    38. He was disappointed that they would not get to study here, but the fifty year voyage to Altair would be far quicker than the thousand year wait till this one could be inhabited again


    39. I will see Diana at the gym two more times till the end of the month and that's all


    40. It wasn't till they thrust clear of the iceball that Enrico said, "You worry that they are sending us as martyrs don't you? Well we have seed with us, the faith doesn't sacrifice unborn children

    41. Again the rope went up till it disappeared in the sky, again he swung and twisted in the wind


    42. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!


    43. front of your mirror and try out various expressions till you get something that you think is the best for you


    44. We will find at the end that it misses, but we will find even later that it is shepherding a smaller rock that impacts the Kassikan, a rock they won't notice till a couple days before the impact


    45. He was a little queasy about these computer programs claiming to be people for they had not existed outside Asia till he arrived at 61 Cygni, even though they were of Earth


    46. " There were of lot of those details he had to write down for her but it was a lot of practical stuff, she didn't get to the emotional part till they were in bed


    47. She thought of questions till he was off on FiveCoiling


    48. In a couple miles you reach lake henarDee and the dam itself where there are three miles of seventy-story waterfront till the beginning of the Grand Canal that goes on to Chardovia


    49. He wandered afterward, walking along a sixth floor street till he could see the pier their boat was on


    50. till iniquity was found in thee














































    1. He tilled the land by hand


    2. «Now Abel became a shepherd and kept flocks, while Cain tilled the soil


    3. also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded; 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate


    4. seventh part of the Earth: six parts have you dried up, and kept them, to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled


    5. Destroy all wrong from the face of the Earth and let every evil work come to an end, and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear, and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth' shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore; And then shall all the righteous escape; And shall live till they beget thousands of children; And all the days of their youth and of their old age shall they complete in peace; And then shall the whole Earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and be full of blessing; And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it, and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure of it shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil; And cleanse you the Earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness, and all the uncleanness that is wrought on the Earth destroy from off the Earth; And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me; And the Earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send them on it from generation to generation and forever


    6. 43 And when God had driven Adam from the garden of Eden, he took the stick in his hand and went and tilled the ground from which he was taken


    7. transferring some of the plantings to areas that were being tilled by


    8. Destroy all wrong from the face of the Earth and let every evil work come to an end and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth' shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore; And then shall all the righteous escape; And shall live till they beget thousands of children; And all the days of their youth and of their old age shall they complete in peace; And then shall the whole Earth be tilled in righteousness and shall all be planted with trees and be full of blessing; And all desirable trees shall be planted on it and they shall plant vines on it and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure of it shall bear a thousand and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil; And cleanse you the Earth from all oppression and from all unrighteousness and from all sin and from all godlessness and all the uncleanness that is wrought on the Earth destroy from off the Earth; And all the children of men shall become righteous and all nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me and all shall worship Me; And the Earth shall be cleansed from all defilement and from all sin and from all punishment and from all torment and I will never again send them on it from generation to generation and forever


    9. 43 And when God had driven Adam from the garden of Eden he took the stick in his hand and went and tilled the ground from which he was taken


    10. 42 on the third day you did command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the Earth: six parts have you dried up and kept them to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled might serve you

    11. " He said to them "It is like a mustard seed the smallest of all seeds; But when it falls on tilled soil it produces a great plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky


    12. As the horses passed the tilled and irrigated fields of squash and wheat, Bors paused to gather an apron-full of ripe strawberries


    13. He planted without plowing the entire land but rather by inserting the seed within the soil as he tilled a small strip of land


    14. This is often very difficult when it is placed in the garden rows as there is a little bit of difficulty perhaps, avoiding all together possibility of stepping in the tilled rows where the fruits, vegetables, or the plants are planted in traditional garden situation


    15. But much before Pakistan was tilled in the Islamic fields of Hindustan; its seeds of failure, as observed by W


    16. Jeeter looked down, and with a vile, burning knot rising in his throat he realized that he was unsteady on his feet not only because his knees were clattering like a pair of castanets, but in large part because the very ground had come to life, with the tilled soil roiling with multi-tentacled, squirming, pincer-wielding slug-like creatures


    17. To his right a richly tilled


    18. Where there should only have been tilled fields and the odd farmhouse was a scene from hell


    19. also realized why the couple had tilled part of the land, and he had resigned himself to grow


    20. Wind turbines had been re-erected for electricity and the land had been tilled to produce fruit and vegetables

    21. whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God: but if it bears thorns and thistles,


    22. whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing form God: but if it bears thorns and thistles,


    23. "Do you think that to be an agriculturist it is necessary to have tilled the earth or fattened fowls oneself? It is necessary rather to know the composition of the substances in question—the geological strata, the atmospheric actions, the quality of the soil, the minerals, the waters, the density of the different bodies, their capillarity, and what not


    24. Then they had left off the skins of beasts, had put on cloth, tilled the soil, planted the vine


    25. I could clearly distinguish the tilled soil on its outskirts, the various mountain chains running parallel with its coastline, and its volcanoes, crowned by Mauna Kea, whose elevation is 5,000 meters above sea level


    26. To all appearance the summer's pomp was still at fullest height, and although in the tilled acres green had given way to gold, though rowans were reddening, and the woods were dashed here and there with a tawny fierceness, yet light and warmth and colour were still present in undiminished measure, clean of any chilly premonitions of the passing year


    27. Beneath the walls of Isengard there still were acres tilled by the slaves of Saruman; but most of the valley had become a wilderness of weeds and thorns


    28. someone that he had known, who had walked proudly once in arms, or tilled


    29. thatched roofs, the tilled fields pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought


    30. Karyl set off into a broad valley of tilled fields

    31. He set the plow in the furrow, he called sharply to his burro, “Burrrrrrr-o!” And they walked together through the rich field, under the clearing sky, on their tilled land by the deep river


    32. in our family it's nothing new ; ray uncle, my grandfather, too, tilled the soil with their own hands


    33. «?haracd that your father tilled the soil with his own hands—he did it like a prince


    34. 1 restrained myself for a long time, but at last I suddenly broke ou': and informed him before every one that he was hanging about unnecessarily, that I should get better just as well without him ; that, though he looktnl like a scientilic man, he was tilled with nothing but conventional ideas and did not even untlcrstand that medicine had never cured anyone ; that, in fact, he was in all probability grossly ill-educated, " like all the specialists who had become so high and might}^ among us of late j-ears


    35. From the office books and his talk with the foreman, Nekhludoff found that two-thirds of the best of the cultivated land was still being tilled with improved machinery by labourers receiving fixed wages, while the other third was tilled by the peasants at the rate of five roubles per desiatin [about two and three-quarter acres]


    36. The land so much needed by men was tilled by these people, who were on the verge of starvation, so that the corn might be sold abroad and the owners of the land might buy themselves hats and canes, and carriages and bronzes, etc


    37. Men do not wish to leave the land which they have tilled for generations; they do not wish to disperse on the bidding of the government; they do not wish to pay the taxes which are extorted from them; neither do they willingly submit to laws which they have not helped to make; they do not wish to give up their nationality


    38. They neither tilled the ground, nor ate bread


    39. In this, we may well give somewhat of theoretical instruction through lectures and even text-books; but more important than this, and not incompatible with it, is that effective teaching which comes by working out the practical object lesson of a thoroughly well tilled farm, as is done at Hampton, and to a less degree, as yet, at Tougaloo and Talladega


    1. tools to begin tilling, pruning, and preparing to restore the


    2. We both stared at a farmer tilling his soil and watched the sun glittering on the sea which now showed small white caps


    3. Whereas, tilling the soil successfully required the active concentration on the part of the tiller


    4. 17 And in some time after, Cain and Abel his brother, went one day into the field to do their work; and they were both in the field, Cain tilling and ploughing his ground, and Abel feeding his flock; and the flock passed that part which Cain had ploughed in the ground, and it sorely grieved Cain on this account


    5. Tilling the land, he sang like cantors in the Pampas


    6. Why is a rat more important that preventing fires? A Taiwanese immigrant farmer was arrested for running over a kangaroo rat while tilling his own land and fined $200,000


    7. 17 And in some time after Cain and Abel his brother went one day into the field to do their work; and they were both in the field Cain tilling and ploughing his ground and Abel feeding his flock; and the flock passed that part which Cain had ploughed in the ground and it sorely grieved Cain on this account


    8. “Why must we suffer the way things have always been, the rebel leader said, when we can fight the so-called leaders and take what should be ours? They have houses and fields and crops enough, whereas we stand helplessly by, tilling our poor soil and producing barely enough to keep us alive


    9. Notice that the weapons of war are turned into tools for farming and cultivating - that is, for growing and tilling the soil


    10. Here’s what I did; I copied the canvas picture in Paint making sure my work area was much larger and kept pasting beside one another (in effect, manually tilling the picture) to end up with a larger canvas photo

    11. Material wealth began with agriculture, the tilling of the soil


    12. Although the tilling and sowing of the ground is an honorable and


    13. Actually, there are very few pros about using the raised gardens when opposed to tilling soil for those wishing to structure smaller gardens and also are limited about the space where it could be done


    14. unison, together till the end of the road beats a clear path home again, tilling fields of


    15. were using the moments of peace to start tilling their lands, preparing for the seasonal


    16. Later, the Roman Wheat crop, the systematic tilling and farming of wheat in North Africa: created the North African Desert


    17. Finally twelve thousand years ago in three or four small locations… In the Tigris Valley, the Chin Valley, the Nile valley and the Indus Valley: a few nomadic ancestors stopped traveling, and settled down permanently in one area and began tilling the soil


    18. Tilling the soil is a systematic, mechanized, chemical killing of the soil that is a mass horror of total destruction


    19. Tilling is killing


    20. The image of St-John-in-the-Forest that stayed with her was not the graveyard, nor the corpses Merthin and Thomas had dug up, but the neat fields with no one tilling them

    21. The business was established and had old roots; is it not one thing to set up a new gin-palace and another to accept an investment in an old one? The profits made out of lost souls—where can the line be drawn at which they begin in human transactions? Was it not even God's way of saving His chosen? "Thou knowest,"—the young Bulstrode had said then, as the older Bulstrode was saying now—"Thou knowest how loose my soul sits from these things—how I view them all as implements for tilling Thy garden rescued here and there from the wilderness


    22. His people neither mined nor worked metals or jewels, nor did they bother much with trade or with tilling the earth


    23. They were more friendly with Elves than the other Hobbits were, and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts; and of old they preferred hunting to tilling


    24. He need think no more of the matters of tilling the soil


    25. What, then, will be the outcome of a few eccentric individuals, or madmen, tilling the soil, making shoes, and so on, instead of smoking cigarettes, playing whist, and roaming about everywhere to relieve their tedium, during the space of the ten leisure hours a day which every intellectual worker enjoys? This will be the outcome: that these madmen will show in action, that that imaginary property for which men suffer, and for which they torment themselves and others, is not necessary for happiness; that it is oppressive, and that it is mere superstition; that property, true property, consists only in one’s own head and hands; and that, in order to actually exploit this real property with profit and pleasure, it is necessary to reject the false conception of property outside one’s own body, upon which we expend the best efforts of our lives


    26. The necessity of keeping the colored man ignorant, of keeping out discussions relating to human rights, involved the other necessity of keeping a population unintelligent, unthinking and, so far forth, unproductive, as appeared in the very implements employed for tilling the soil


    1. It seldom happens that the person who tills the ground has wherewithal to maintain himself till he reaps the harvest


    2. mercies of the wicked are cruel; He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vain persons is void of


    3. The farmer tills his land


    4. The farmer tills his land,


    5. Sometimes he supervised while others stacked notes into the cash machines, other times he would help securing cash into the safe or taking it out of the safe for the tills


    6. But God tills the soil of one man through the other to sow His seed in the soil of him


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    Synonyms for "till"

    cashbox money box till public treasury trough boulder clay cultivate farm labour harrow grow work drawer compartment bin receptacle tray

    "till" definitions

    unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together


    a treasury for government funds


    a strongbox for holding cash


    work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation