Which preposition to use with plantations
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.
You told me never to go to the plantation without you.
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.
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 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.
In the year 1789 he erected his plantations into manors.
Three weeks later I heard that Muckle John was destined for the Plantations in a ship of Mr. Barclay of Urie's, which traded to New Jersey.
Writers who have given us an Account of China, tell us the Inhabitants of that Country laugh at the Plantations of our Europeans, which are laid out by the Rule and Line; because, they say, any one may place Trees in equal Rows and uniform Figures.
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.
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!
These, I learned, were runaway slaves from the plantations above New Orleans.
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.
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.
I before told you this river, owing to the rocks and falls, was not navigable; but I forgot to inform you, that the inhabitants of the back country contrive to waft the produce of their plantations down the river on floats, during the floods, in spring and fall; which will be conveyed by means of this new road to Philadelphia, whence it will be exported to the west indian or european markets.