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When they do, ever more land often goes unclaimed, unploughed, unrestrained.

From The Guardian Nov. 24, 2020

At the end of the long avenue of cedars there was a wide, unploughed common which extended for a quarter of a mile along the roadside.

From The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

When an unploughed border was left covered with grass or stones, it was called a "balk."

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

"The land, unploughed, shall yield her crop; Pure honey from the oak shall drop; The fountain shall run milk; The thistle shall the lily bear; And every bramble roses wear, And every worm make silk."

From The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier

Property here is divided only by narrow ditches, serving at the same time for drains, or by ridges of unploughed ground, as in the common fields of England, which answer the purpose of foot-paths.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

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