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Literary notes about arable (AI summary)

The term "arable" in literature has been used to evoke the fertility and potential of land throughout different historical and cultural contexts. In Thomas Hardy's narrative, "arable ground" is mentioned almost as a boundary to cultivated space, imbuing the landscape with both a tangible and symbolic limit [1]. Meanwhile, in a Spanish setting, the notion of arable land is extended to a wider regional context as an element of the "campiña" that situates a town within its productive environs [2]. Norse chronicles similarly reference arable land as a valued resource, ensuring subsistence by its ability to support corn cultivation and personal use for tenants [3]. The discourse continues in Russian literature where arable land is juxtaposed with pasture and forest yields, highlighting both scarcity and economic potential [4]. Even in scientific texts, the arable fields along river banks are noted for their agricultural relevance [5], and Byron's poetic illustration of sowing on arable land underscores its essential role in the cycle of cultivation [6]. Collectively, these examples depict "arable" as a term rich with agricultural promise and economic significance across various literary traditions.
  1. The plantation wherein she had taken shelter ran down at this spot into a peak, which ended it hitherward, outside the hedge being arable ground.
    — from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
  2. campiña f (arable) territory, region (around a town).
    — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
  3. He gave them arable land to sow corn in, and let them apply their crops to their own use.
    — from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
  4. We have not much arable land, but our pasture makes up for it, and with the forest yields about two thousand roubles a year.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  5. the arable fields and along the banks of rivers.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  6. By those who sow them in a land that 's arable.
    — from Don Juan by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

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