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Example sentences for "hundred acres"

  • The Lewis plantation was about three hundred acres, with usually fifty slaves working on the place.

  • There was over a hundred acres in the Master's farm, and it was all bottom land too, and maybe you think he let them slaves off easy!

  • They was over a hundred acres in the plantation, and I don't know how many slaves, but before the War ended lots of the men had run away.

  • More potent remedial agents may supply their place in the materia medica, and an acre of grass land yields more nutriment for cattle than a range of a hundred acres of forest.

  • Above this pass is a wide and nearly level expanse, containing a hundred acres, perhaps much more.

  • More potent remedial agents may supply their place in the materia medica, and an acre of grass-land yields more nutriment for cattle than a range of a hundred acres of forest.

  • A similar work on the Little Miami river, in Warren county, Ohio, has upwards of four miles of embankment, yet encloses little more than one hundred acres.

  • The enclosures D, H, I, K, have each about two and a half miles of embankment; and H and K enclose but little less than one hundred acres each.

  • The works, designated by the letters A and B, have each upwards of two miles of heavy embankment, and contain not far from one hundred acres.

  • Tara had the advantage of extent as well as of height, and could be made a permanent dwelling-place as well as an acropolis, for there are fully a hundred acres on what may be called the summit of the hill.

  • The islands of Loch Ree are of almost all sizes, from a hundred acres to a square perch.

  • Uisneach, with its over a hundred acres of nearly level land on its top, was therefore chosen, for a hundred thousand men could find space on it.

  • At this place, known to the Creeks as Tohopki or Tohopeka, the Tallapoosa made a bend so as to inclose some eighty or a hundred acres in a narrow peninsula opening to the north.

  • He said that he owned a hundred acres somewhere up this way.

  • We crossed one tract, on the bank of the river, of more than a hundred acres of heavy timber, which had just been felled and burnt over, and was still smoking.

  • It appeared that he had been buying land lately (I think it was a hundred acres), but there was probably an incumbrance to it, somebody else claiming to have bought some grass on it for this year.

  • I doubt that there are a hundred acres of warm, dry, gravelly or sandy soil east of the Alleghanies that would not amply reward a similar application.

  • There are others who cannot handle a hundred acres so that nothing is lost through neglect or oversight.

  • If the Chase be enclosed, the timber must be cut down, young and old; and here are a couple of hundred acres of land, worth ten thousand acres of land in the New Forest.

  • Some of them contain more than a hundred acres each; and the number of cattle and sheep, feeding in them, is prodigious.

  • The government have given him two hundred acres of land in sight of the Moravian village, and there he dwells in patriarchal simplicity.

  • Each on us rents a farm of this Littlepage, of a hundred acres good.

  • He ought to take fifty dollars for a hundred acres.

  • In the following years Dabney made it a practice to clear about a hundred acres of new ground annually.

  • The gray crest of the summit towers above the ledge of fertile soil which lies around it, a domain sometimes narrower, sometimes wider, and altogether about a hundred acres in extent.

  • His tenants have thriven so well that each of them owns at least a hundred acres, three hundred sheep, twenty cows, ten oxen, and five horses, and employs more than twenty persons.

  • At this moment the Commune owns two hundred acres of woodland, and a hundred and sixty acres of meadow.

  • He agreed to build four farmhouses with a hundred acres of land attached to each, and promised to advance the sums required to pay for clearing the ground, for seeds, ploughing gear, and cattle, and for making occupation roads.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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