Which preposition to use with plantation
After all, one does not take the trouble to meet a man accidentally in a plantation of young beech-trees in order to hear him discourse of his wife's good qualities; and besides, Mr. Charteris was speaking in a disagreeably solemn manner, rather as if he fancied himself in a cathedral.
Joe overtook his master as he entered the ornamental plantation in front of the house, and Crewe quickly whispered his instructions, as the retreating figure of the K.C. threaded the wood towards the gates.
He took another long look at Holymead, who was then within a few yards of the plantation on his way to the gates, and remarked, in a hesitating tone, as though to justify his failure: "Well, you see, sir, when he was coming in it was the front view I saw, now I can only see his back.
For instance, to get to a man in Essex county, the word would be passed by Middle Plantation to York Ferry.
" "I put it to you, witness," persisted Counsel, "that you could not positively identify a man in a plantation at that time of night.
Have you been on board yet?" "No, sir, I have been looking over the plantation with my father all day, and only got home in time for dinner.
He said that he contrived to induce labourers to come to his plantation for a few days at a time, chiefly for the purpose of earning money enough to pay the Government assessment of their land; but his opinion was that, if there were no assessment, no labour would be procurable.
There are some very heavy seas off that point at times, and there is no plantation near by.
It is true that some plantations are so far distant from any seed-crushing mill that it is not worth while to sell the seed as a commercial product; and it might seem, therefore, as though we might regard the entire costs of cotton growing on such plantations as constituting the marginal costs of raw cotton.
You told me never to go to the plantation without you.
Running up the hill through the trees, he reached the open slope of moor on the farther side which divides the plantation from the main wood.
Our overseer had not been long able to ride about the plantation after his accident, before his life was again endangered.
Once for each cursed plantation along this west coast from the point.
If we add yet another lustrum, we find the Scotfortunate, save for one misfortune that made him a joyless worshipper of goldpurchasing from the widow, who wished to return to England, the entire plantation under the condition of an annuity.
In the year 1789 he erected his plantations into manors.
In 1856 a hurricane visited the Island just before the harvest, and completely tore up several large plantations by the roots; a catastrophe that naturally has caused much discouragement to the cultivators.
ter nobody ner nuffin, but des went 'roun' moanin', en groanin', en shakin' her head, he 'cluded ter let her stay on de plantation en nuss de little nigger chilluns w'en dey mammies wuz ter wuk in de cotton-fiel'.
He afterwards, with his friends, removed to Virginia, leaving some of his servants and an overseer to manage the plantation during his absence.
These, I learned, were runaway slaves from the plantations above New Orleans.
He was owner of a cotton plantation below there, and on being told of the above whipping, he said that slaves were often whipped to death for great offences, such as stealing, &c.but that when death followed, the overseers were generally severely reproved!
One in particular attracted my notice; this, on inquiry of a gentlemanly-looking man, who, like myself, was inclined to "meditate among the tombs," I ascertained had been erected by the relatives of a planter, who had resided in an adjoining state, but who had several cotton plantations within ten miles of Charleston; these he occasionally visited, but in general confided to the care of an overseer, who lived with his family on one of them.
In the first place, subject to the control of a mayor-commandant appointed by the Governor of New Orleans, the early dwellers in this territory managed their plantations about as they pleased.
If a soldier was affronted by a farmer, they would probably lay his territories waste, and ravage his plantations like an enemy's country; if another disagreed with his landlord, they would advise him to make good his quarters, to invade the magazines of provision without restraint, to force the barricadoes of the cellar, and to forage in the stables without controul.
Some time in 1850 on John and Mollie Hoover's plantation between Savannah and Charleston near the Georgia line.
But in the irony of fate those Africans who lent their hands to the looting got nothing but deceptive rewards, while the victims of the rapine were quite possibly better off on the American plantations than the captors who remained in the African jungle.