Sentence examples for cultivated ground from inspiring English sources

In the next century, however, the collapse of the Persian frontier guard in Central Asia and the consolidation of a new steppe empire based in Mongolia combined to provoke large-scale displacements of peoples westward along the steppe and southward from the steppe onto cultivated ground.

But the sceptics underestimated the native passion of the English for cultivated ground of their own.

C. capitatum is closely related to Good King Henry (C. Bonus-Henricus) and to lambs' quarters (C. album), one of the most common weeds of cultivated ground.

The society is communal in organization, untilled land being owned by the village and cultivated ground by the individual as long as he tills it.

The depth of his pleasure in that meal was so tangible, even to a child, my memory of it fills me with wonder at how deeply fulfillment can blossom from a cultivated ground of restraint.

Once established on cultivated ground, the Parthians prevented other steppe nomads from following hard on their heels by developing a superior cavalry force and inventing a means for supporting it at relatively little cost.

SINCE it reopened in 1992, on beautifully cultivated grounds in Washington, the Mayflower Inn has been an elegant oasis, like an English country house tucked into the Litchfield Hills.

In many of her floral and leaf designs she is in some ways effectively cultivating ground broken by Matisse.

Start cultivating soil by tilling the ground at least a foot deep, aerating and thoroughly mixing the rough soil, removing any rocks, twigs, or other hard bits.

The community identified grazing areas, settlements, cultivated, bare ground and trading centres for each entire land use type.

Bundy's call for "the people" to reclaim their livelihood from the capital echoes a long tradition of populist claims on land, from the Diggers and Levellers of the English Civil War, who cultivated unused ground, to squatters movements in modern Brazil and, of course, the encampments of 2011, which "occupied" public spaces from Manhattan and London to Tel Aviv.