King and L'Arpent appointed commissioners to investigate it -- Decision -- The end.
The portion of the common set aside for agriculture was divided into strips of one arpent in front by forty in depth, and one or more allotted to each inhabitant according to his skill and industry as a cultivator.
An arpentof ground for corn rents at from thirty to thirty-six livres.
An arpent yields one hundred quintals of hay a year, worth three livres the quintal.
Their first home was on the arpent town lot near the hospital.
In all the Island of Montreal the tax for each arpent of land was two liards and a half pint of wheat.
The wooden homes the settlers built on their one arpent were of the simplest, and on the arrival of the last immigration there was much activity in felling and carpentering.
Napoleon Buonaparte" (Italian pronounciation) "will make good every arpent within the next two years.
He became desperate, and did a thing I have known more than one planter to do: wrote his pledge for every arpent of his land and every slave on it, and staked that.
The measurement of the arpent varied from an acre to an acre and a half.
The last-mentioned class usually contract to cultivate and dress an arpent of vines, exclusive of the vintage, at from 8l.
He thinks Lisa Arpent a jeune fille--like these others.
This use of the word acre as long measure arises from the fact that the French acre or arpent, the arpent of Paris, makes a square of ten perches, of eighteen feet each, on a side, a Paris foot being equal to 1.
Footnote 1215: The arpent measures between one and one and a half acres.
In general, in the regions of large farms, the proprietor obtains ten livres the arpent if the cultivation is very good, and three livres when ordinary.
Williams, whom Scharf indorses as an authority, computes the arpent at 192 feet 6 inches, English measure.
The Quebec Department of Crown Lands, which we adopt as preferable authority, translates the arpentinto 191.
Meanwhile a subsidiary cemetery, the third, was acquired about 1749 “on a site belonging to Mr. Robert near the powder magazine, containing about a quarter of an arpent in superfices.
The lineal arpent was the equivalent of one hundred and ninety-two English feet.
The superficial arpent, or arpent of area, contained about five-sixths of an acre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arpent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
