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Outside the cities, many live in poverty; about 85% of Iran's land is untillable without artificial irrigation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Larsen says he'll use all legal means to keep his land, which he says is mostly untillable mountainous terrain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soils are, thereby, rendered earlier in spring, because the water, which rendered them cold, heavy, and untillable, is earlier removed, leaving them earlier in a growing condition.

From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)

These people still use what wood can be grown on the untillable land within transporting distance, and convert much wood into charcoal, making transportation over longer distances easier.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

They could not understand why he would leave standing in the midst of a wheat-field a magnificent soft maple, the branches of which shaded and made untillable an area of scores of yards.

From The Wolf's Long Howl by Waterloo, Stanley