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Example sentences for "common land"

  • There was much appropriation of common land by individual owners by sale or force.

  • A cottage may be built for a poor, lame, sick, aged, or disabled person on waste or common land.

  • I hardly know what is common land," replied the Vicar.

  • It used to be a bit of common land, didn't it?

  • I'm told that they will do so,--that they say it is common land.

  • He fancies the land may be common land, and not private property.

  • But the principal reason of all is that on a common land no one has freedom to enclose his strips without a special permission and Act of Parliament.

  • They could take any local sand, gravel, chalk, or stone from waste or common land or, if not needed by and satisfaction is made to the owner, from enclosed land.

  • They lived in a huddle of cottages, pastured their animals on common land, and used common meadows for hay-making.

  • They could take any local sand, gravel, chalk, or stone from waste or common land or, if not needed by and satisfaction was made to the owner, from enclosed land.

  • They lived in a huddle of cottages, pastured their animals on common land, and used common meadows for haymaking.

  • He moved a little way across the stretch of common land, and stood at the side of the caravan so that he was concealed from any one crossing the bridge from Neuilly.

  • He rose, and, passing the door of the Inn, crossed the space of common land to where the caravan stood, a deserted monument of green and red.

  • But when the enormous population of the capital and its rapid growth and expansion are considered, the conclusion is inevitable, that not one acre of common land within an easy railway journey of the metropolis can be spared.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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