uncultivated land. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The villages were abandoned, and the land lay around in uncultivated wastes. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
In this respect, the Persians, Turks, and the so-called uncultivated people, are much more generous than we are. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
Ignored was that local law stipulated that "uncultivated" land could be owned by individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: Israel's East Jerusalem Linked Settlement Expansion] Reference
It is only the ill-bred, that is, the uncultivated imagination that will amuse itself where it ought to worship and work. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
States to all the uncultivated regions of the Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The history of every uncultivated people amply proves it. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Rocks, brushwood, uncultivated spaces, surround us on all sides. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This mixed nature in an uncultivated peasant's breast interested. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Hence all art which is above the merely common and uncultivated sense. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
American rivers were too uncultivated in their taste to rise at a fly. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
The herbage grew in isolated patches on a black and uncultivated soil. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
There are hints of an older past: broken-down churches; dense, uncultivated forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Two Songs by Mark Power] Reference
There is a great difference in the growth of the cultivated and the uncultivated ones. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
"Free from their master's supervision the serfs will leave the fields uncultivated," said the. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
The soil generally is a bed of manure, the land uncultivated and without any person to claim it. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
While every other part of the soil is daily raked up, shall the finest spot be left uncultivated?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Strong and uncultivated minds carry their friendship, as well as their enmity, to an astonishing pitch. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
It is also a fact that cultivated minds derive more pleasure from nature and art than uncultivated minds. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Their faculties are rude and uncultivated; they act chiefly on the perceptive plane, reflecting but little. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
When morning broke she found herself in an uncultivated country, destitute of any marks of human habitation. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Licks are rude, uncultivated, stony barrens, poor beyond description and extremely difficult to travel over. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
Plantations lying uncultivated for a single year, in the second present a handsome young growth of cottonwood. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Instructing them thus, both by words and actions, he gathered a large harvest in a wild and uncultivated field. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Land springs in uncultivated and uninhabited regions, particularly in the mountains, yield a good and pure supply. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
This custom of making compensation also prevailed among European nations in their earlier and more uncultivated ages. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
These West Virginians are uncultivated, uneducated and rough, and need the common school to civilize and modernize them. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
He says, "I could not possibly believe that any uncultivated country had ever been discovered exhibiting so rich a picture.". From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The cultivated who have brought life to a far higher point than the uncultivated have protected their liberty by a social rule. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
A great army must be a moving city, capable of subsisting itself in the uncultivated and desert regions through which it often passes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
First, a single family immigrated to some uncultivated parts of the country, perhaps accompanied by others, who formed a little colony. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
He found the language rough, uncultivated, and unformed, and left it softer, more harmonious, and possessed of a system of versification. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
They continually recalled to us the surprise of some of the early explorers at seeing an uncultivated country look so much like a garden. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
It is an uncultivated and formal tongue, with monosyllabic roots and rude inflexions totally different from the neighboring languages of Syria and. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Are these pioneers meant to put uncultivated fields to use, or rebut "Western propaganda" claiming that large parts of Belarus remain uninhabitable?. From Wordnik.com. [NUCLEAR FAMILIES] Reference
It is characteristic of the child, of the uncultivated classes in all communities, of whole communities primitive in their culture and relatively unenlightened. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
One example of this balance is the biblical concept of Shmitta, the sabbatical (seventh) year, during which all lands, public and private, must rest uncultivated. From Wordnik.com. [Ari Hart: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Faith] Reference
Just views of them may indeed excite compassion; yet, for our instruction, they will exhibit to us a genuine picture of human nature in its rudest and most uncultivated state. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
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