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“He was tilling the ground,” said Leonard Leo, a former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, a Council for National Policy member and a close family friend of the couple’s.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Two separate investigations of Estes went on simultaneously for weeks without either group's knowing that the other was tilling the same field.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the farmer that morning was tilling his soil, Flushed, ragged, and sunbrowned, and grimy with toil, When pausing a moment, as all farmers will, He spied our two friends coming over the hill.

From Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 by Various

A few scattered sheep were lazily feeding near; below them a man was tilling a fresh-cleared patch of ground; far away beyond two figures were standing side by side.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

When not needed at more important work Stephen attended the common school. but the serious business of life was tilling his uncle's fields.

From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by Gardner, William