This is found advantageous on hill-sides where the work is easier if all the furrows are turned downhill; or from another point of view the furrows may be all laid uphill so as to counteract the tendency for the soil to work down the slope.

Individuals went to England and spoke wherever they could get a hearing, but it was uphill work.

How he suffered in his uphill course he has told us himself (xv.

With each turn in the road he expected to see the summit but was only greeted with another long uphill climb until he lost track of the numbers.

In the village, in the house, in the garden, by the well, by the pond, over all the rising ground, and all along the road uphill from the bridge leading to the village, not more than five hundred yards away, crowds of men could be seen through the shimmering mist.