1.   In agricultural societies, men tilled the land while women tended home and children.

2.   On Andean haciendas, it matters little to the man who tills the land whether the product increases.

3.   The subjugated population of Messenia tilled the land as serfs, helots.

4.   Then he went back to tilling the land.

5.   American farmers have always been good at tilling the land.

6.   Almost all the land is still tilled by hapless peasants on unprofitable collective farms.

7.   By one estimate, only one in five American farmers has an heir interested in tilling the land.

8.   For more than two years, Thoreau tilled the land, wrote, thought and walked.

9.   He was tilling his land one morning, as was his wont, when he threw down his plow, ran away from home and became a monk.

10.   Honduran subsistence farmers have tilled the land for centuries, fashioning corn into tortillas and harvesting beans.