She's worth a ten-acre lot

Ten, twenty, thirty thousand acre farms are not unknown.

" "And, Adamthe five-acre field should be mowed today.

Exactly what the outcome was, no one knows; but the memorial on the life of Pleasants shows that he appropriated the rent of the three-hundred-and-fifty-acre tract and ten pounds per annum to the establishment of a free school for Negroes, and that a few years after his death such an institution was in operation under a Friend at Gravelly Run.

They got news some way they was to get forty acres land and a mule to start out with but they said they never got nothing.

The old planters of Beverly in Massachusetts and the thousand acre grant of 1635.

I am assured that the only expense to the colony is the fee for survey, amounting to eighteen dollars for a ten-acre allotment, as the Coolie prefers the thinly-wooded and comparatively poor lands, from the greater facility of clearing them; and these lands are quite unsaleable to other customers.

But Rodney's advice was not takenany more than his advice to people the island, by having a considerable quantity of land in each parish allotted to ten-acre men (i.e. white yeomen), under penalty of forfeiting it to the Crown should it be ever converted to any other use than provision ground (i.e. thrown into sugar estates).

He was no half-acre farmer, but a worker of hundreds of acres; an' my little homestead was only a potato patch alongside of his.

Already their value has sunk for 160-acre warrants to 67 cents per acre under an apprehension that such a measure as this might become a law.

"They are now settled on a thousand acres o' land here in New England.

It was a three acre garden.

The beneficiaries, chosen because of their indigence, were transported at the expense of the trust and given fifty-acre homesteads with equipment and supplies.

Why is it that the value of acres increases in a geometrical ratio, as they stretch away towards the North Star from the frontier of Slavery?

Apropostalking of Hogg, the poet, we called to see him in his half-acre island in Eltrive Lake, and truly we met with that burning hot reception which we had anticipated from Blackwood's Magazine description of him.

Mr. Four-acres israther drowsy.' 'Ah, sir!' sighed the young woman.

"Acres circumfert centum licet Argus ocellos, Non tamen errantes cernat ubique typos.

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies.

A most glorious sight that same hundred-acre bog must have been a couple of weeks later, when the berries had ripened, and a carpet of rosy redness blushed upwards to the waning sun!

The Prairie proper ends at Calgary, among the cattle-ranches, mills, breweries, and three million acre irrigation works.

Why, look at that bit of bric-à-brac you were riding to-day; a decent God-fearing Australian wouldn't be seen dead in a ten-acre paddock with it.

TESTAMENT, m., acre authentique par lequel on déclare ses dernières volontés et dispose de ses biens pour le temps qui suivra sa mort.

It is quite possible that not one of the hundred laborers on and under this ten-acre patch ever thought it an extraordinary focus of production.

To each slave was assigned a half-acre plot with the promise that if he worked with diligence in the master's crop the whole gang would in turn be set to work his crop.

The first argument would apply to a thousand new facts, which physical science is daily proving to be true; and the second, when the reputed size of the sea-serpent is compared with the known size of the ocean, rather more silly than the assertion that a ten-pound pike could not live in a half-acre pond, because it was too small to hold him.