62 collocations for farms

When he later discovered that they were becoming so engrossed in the game that they had but little time to plant, sow or reap, or do any of the things incidental to farm life, he became very indignant indeed.

Certainly it was with no idea of successfully farming the land he had acquired, for half of it was stony and half covered by pine forest.

But Captain Rheid held up his head, declaring that his boys were good boys, and had always obeyed him; if they had left him to farm his hundred and fifty acres alone, it was only because their tastes differed from his.

So far as I could make out, they seem to farm the revenue much as is done in Turkey.

The publicans, the renegades, who were farming the taxes of the Roman conquerors, and making their base profit out of their countrymen's slavery, came to him,"Master, what shall we do?"

I farmed about ten years.

This, added to the little inducement held out to farming people in a slave state, where no man can work himself without losing caste, has mainly contributed to retard the increase of population and prosperity in the neighbourhood of St. Louis.

Don Henry has farmed out the trade of the island of Arguin, under the following regulations.

The reason we farmed all the time was because that was all for us to do.

In the village of Great Parham, not far from Framlingham, lived a Mr. Tovell, of Parham Hall, a substantial yeoman, farming his own estate.

A friend of mine, a country parson, on first going to his parish, resolved to farm his glebe for himself.

[g]Let such raise palaces, and manors buy, Collect a tax, or farm a lottery; With warbling eunuchs fill a [C]licens'd

Wou'd I might farm his Custom. Char.

The most I reckon I ever did make was on Surrounded Hill (Biscoe) when I farmed one-half-fur-de-udder for Sheriff Reinhardt.

The patentees enjoyed perfect immunity, grinding them down as they pleased, farming out whole districts, and dividing the spoil.

Each district farmed its excise and its salt tax, under the superintendence of clerks appointed by the King, who regulated the assessment and the fines, and who adjudicated in the first instance in all cases of dispute.

My neighbours, the Kandolkars, are a peasant family and during the rains they take to farming their own fields.

Then I had to farm about a little fur a living.

I liked farming the best and come back to it.

Thinks Ihow very grand it sounds For a man to be farming his own grounds In the beautiful land of Australia.

I had intended to stay with them for a month and learn about farming first-hand.

"He's the man that farms the Plain herefarms it out, I mean," Mrs. Damper explained.

They had been yeomen in a small way for generations, farming little holdings, and working like labourers, plodding on, and never heard of outside their fifty-acre farms.

Or sometimes it is only a quit-rent, which the intellectual cultivator, who farms an idea, pays to the original proprietor; or rather,"(seeing that he was not making the matter more intelligible by his explanation,)"or rather, it is when we convey our own thoughts by the means of the more perfect expressions of some favourite author.

[y]: and though the boroughs by degrees bought the liberty of farming these impositions, yet the revenue profited by these bargains: new sums were often exacted for the renewal and confirmation of their charters

62 collocations for  farms