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Till

noun

Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together. Synonym: boulder clay.

A treasury for government funds. Synonyms: public treasury, trough.

A strongbox for holding cash. Synonyms: cashbox, money box.

verb

(past & past part. tilled; pres. part. tilling)

Work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation.

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"Till" Quotes from Famous Books

... held on without slack. She, it was evident, with confidence in her speed proving matchless, as resolute to outrun her pursuer as he to endure till midnight and fulfil his purpose. And Christian held on, still self-assured. He could not fail; he would not fail. To avenge Rol and Trella was motive enough for him to do what man could do; but for Sweyn more. She had kissed Sweyn, but he should not ...

— The Were-Wolf • Clemence Housman

... From that time till the legislative Union every enemy of England could safely count on finding a foothold and active friends in Ireland. It is much too late in the day to indulge in any recriminations on this score. The issues were the most tremendous that have divided Europe; each side was passionately ...

— Against Home Rule (1912) - The Case for the Union • Various

... thinker—a seeker after truth. There was no problem,—social, political or philosophical,—which he was not ready to grapple with. He could plunge into these subjects like a pearl-diver who means to touch bottom, and would never come out till his last breath was spent. This mental habit and his continual suffering made him only too serious, too much in earnest. Jests were not in his line, but he sometimes wrote poetry of the very highest order. He is the first and most original ...

— Sketches from Concord and Appledore • Frank Preston Stearns

... of "the Martyr Hayne," who has given to Charleston her only authentic ghost-story, the scene of which was a brick dwelling which stood till 1896 at the corner of Atlantic and Meeting Streets. Colonel Isaac H. Hayne, a soldier of the Revolution, secured a parole, that he might be with his dying wife. While on parole he was ordered to fight against his country. Rather than be forced to the crime ...

— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

... Europeans to islands within sight of their own shores—Irish, Welsh, Breton, or Spanish,—and then, as these islands became better known, men's imaginations carried the mystery further out over the unknown western sea. The line of legend gradually extended itself till it formed an imaginary chart for Columbus; the aged astronomer, Toscanelli, for instance, suggesting to him the advantage of making the supposed island of Antillia a half-way station; just as it was proposed, long centuries after, to find a station for the ocean telegraph ...

— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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