Citations:till
English citations of till
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- Verb
- An Earth all lying round, crying, Come and till me, come and reap me;--yet we here sit enchanted!
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 1, Midas
- And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:5:
- An Earth all lying round, crying, Come and till me, come and reap me;--yet we here sit enchanted!
- Preposition
- And he never drew the bridle till he landed safe and sound.
- 1890 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson The Man from Snowy River
- And he never drew the bridle till he landed safe and sound.