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McCulloch grants that traditional writing has tilled these fields before, and she does not deny that relatively old-school techniques—vocabulary, syntax—can load sentences with the exquisite inflections of conversation.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 26, 2019

“Since time before time our family has tilled this field,” he tells me proudly and many times over.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

You cannot understand that the root of Eli Tregarthen's life goes down into the soil he has tilled from childhood as his parents tilled it.

From Major Vigoureux by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

From his home I will cast The old man who has tilled it for years; Though each tree and flower is linked with the past, And a friend of his childhood appears.

From The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens by Dickens, Charles

Excesses and excrescences must not be carelessly dealt with, for they mark the fertility of a soil that raises rank weeds because no gardener has tilled it.

From The Negro Problem by Fortune, Timothy Thomas