11.   Add compost or other organic matter and till the soil well.

12.   All this to honor a man who was born to impoverished, illiterate farmers and began tilling the soil like his father before he decided to become a writer.

13.   Farmers were tilling the soil with ancient instruments.

14.   Having rejected Cole Porter as trivial and Pearl Jam as unclean, it finds itself behind fences of its own making, tilling soil that is increasingly barren.

15.   I till the soil and fertilize and weed and water.

16.   I tilled the soil.

17.   Rather than tilling the soil, they work as teachers and home health aides.

18.   The personal problem, he added, belongs to his generation, those who literally tilled the soil.

19.   The vast majority of the people have neither tractors nor plows to till the soil.

20.   Tilling the soil, for example, is thought to wound Mother Earth.