He must qualify for the possession of her hand by long, voluntary residence in the slums; he may inherit ancestral acres only if he has, concerning them, socialistic intentions.
It used to be thought that to cultivate many acres superficially was the way to feed the world and enrich the farmer.
Acres and acres of graves fall away from the red ramparts to the grey sea; and breakers rolling straight from America send their spray across the lowest stones.
The roof was therefore their only escape: a roof overlooking acres and acres of other roofs, and closed in by the naked fortified mountains which stand about Fez like prison-walls.
This season I had taken upon myself to make one of five mowers who cut down all my father's spring corn, consisting of very little short of three hundred acres of barley and oats.
In the year 1801, I grew twelve quarters of best oats per acre, upon eight acres of poor down land, at Widdington, the rent of which was not more than ten shillings an acre.
I swear I would not now change my place against his, or give up being Clive Newcome to be my Lord Marquis of Farintosh, with all his acresand titles of nobility.
Fifteen hundred acres of the best land in England were sold off: all the timber cut down as level as a billiard-board.
Fifty-one acres and a half of land were given to each.
Seventy acreswere given to each horseman, fifty to each of the other colonists.
They apportioned ten acresto each Roman, and three to each Latin colonist.
The colony of Gravisca was established this year in a district of Etruria, formerly taken from the Tarquinians, and five acres of land were given to each settler.
If twenty-five acres of the swampy land that bordered the Beaver River just where the brook fell into it were given up to him the mortgage should be cancelled, and the debt should be considered paid.
Though why grandfather should be so unwilling to part with a few acres of poor land to Jacob Holt is more than I can understand.
I have been in the Doge's palace and I saw several acres of very bad drawing, very bad perspective, and very incorrect proportions.
It must be always recollected it is not acres alone that will sustain sheep or cattle, or maintain a first-class stock; on the contrary, it is the quality of the ground, and whether enclosed and drained.
In June of that year the first burials were made in 200 acres set aside as a national cemetery.
Mike, with his traffic and dickering, had let the money received for his two acres slip through his fingers,--he scarce knew how.
He also writes that if you had not turned soldier you might have come to him and he would make you a present of thirty acres of land.
Tony will get her ten acres some day in this commune, and they say there's more besides.
Our fields reach far up the hill and away down to the Treisam, and we had two hundred acresof woodland,--enough to cut ten thousand florins' worth of wood every year.
A new lawyer having settled in the little town of Sulz, a lawsuit began between the manor-house farmer and the commune, in which paper enough was used up to cover acres of ground.
Some fifteenacres are now available, and a complete, useful, and beautiful recreation ground could easily be made therewith.
Eight or ten acres could probably be obtained, and, by controlling the banks of the hollow, a beautiful and secluded little park could be made.
At nine o'clock in the morning the forest fire was conquered, after having burned over severalacres of timber.
Immediately after breakfast next morning Tom and Hippy started out to make a thorough "cruise" of the pine trees in the section from which a few acres of logs had been cut.
Several acres had been cut off, and skidways built up for more extensive operations, probably for that very season.
It was blackened and cheerless acres of bare and fallen trees that their swollen eyes gazed upon on the way back to camp.
No one at the present day can think that the possession of the great Dominion, then regarded as "a few acres of snow," was not worth twenty times the sum.
Agriculture and the fishing industry were no longer neglected, and while some of the settlers under Smith's guidance brought forty acres under cultivation, others undertook to supply the colony with fish.
Those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross.
I can outlive my friends easily enough, it seems," he thought, as he recited the lines of holy fields over whose acres walked those blessed feet.
Within five years, sixty Massachusetts families must be settled, each possessing a house (at least eighteen feet square and seven stud), with five acres of improved land.
In 1855, exhibition grounds, thirty acres in extent, were purchased in Pittsfield.
As far as the eye could reach, beyond the few acresof land which had been reclaimed from the moors, there seemed to him nothing but wild desolation.
It was little more than a cottage, and Graham judged that the farm consisted of only about fifty acres of stony and barren land.
He chopped wood, and helped care for the few acres they called their farm.
He accordingly purchased, in 1840, a tract of about forty acres of land, comprising a portion of the hill called the Abendberg, in the Canton Bern, above Interlachen.
As for getting more land, this was not the case, for we could have entered ten thousand acres of the best land.
The Pigeon Creek farmer "tickled" two acres of ground in a day with his old shovel-plough, and got but half a crop.
Abe and John took the four yoke of oxen and "broke up" fifteen acres of land, and then split rails enough to fence it in.
Charles Milton for one hundred pounds, leaving thirty-eight acresof the tract unsold.
The eastern forty acres I intend to keep for mother while she lives: if you will not cultivate it, it will rent for enough to support her; at least, it will rent for something.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
