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Example sentences for "large tracts"

  • Large tracts of depopulated land were taken possession of by European settlers, peace came to the exhausted region, and in 1865 it was annexed to Cape Colony.

  • The price of these lands vary at the present time from $3 to $15 per acre, and they can be purchased only in large tracts.

  • It was also found that the effect of high prices had begun to stimulate industry, and to bring-large tracts of waste land into cultivation.

  • A more effectual mode of securing plenty would have been to have passed a bill for the better cultivation of the lands already in use, and for the enclosure of large tracts of land then uncultivated.

  • I should infer from your own Despatches, as well as from those of your predecessors, that the right of the Crown could not now be asserted to large tracts of waste land which particular tribes have been taught to regard as their own.

  • It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters.

  • Contrast between an insular or littoral climate, such as is experienced by all deeply-articulated continents, and the climate of the interior of large tracts of land.

  • Observations made with extreme accuracy over large tracts of land, show that erupted rocks have not been produced in an irregular and unsystematic manner.

  • Large tracts of the most fertile land are carried away by the force of the water; others are littered with stones, sand and rubbish, and are made unfertile for years to come.

  • The victorious leaders of the army abused their power by taking possession of large tracts of land.

  • Great destruction of land took place when the sea first broke in, and many towns were swept away; but there was afterwards a reaction to a certain extent, large tracts, at first submerged, having been gradually redeemed.

  • The word Baron iz evidently derived from the German bar or par, and under the feudal system, came to signify the proprietors of large tracts of land, or thoze vassals of the Lord Paramount, who held lands by honorable service.

  • When the province came into the possession of the English, several gentlemen of property took up large tracts of lands, which, being regulated by the English laws of descent, continued unbroken, til the late revolution.

  • Such situations the States of South Carolina and Georgia were in--large tracts of the most fertile lands on the continent remained uncultivated for the want of population.

  • In relation to negro huts, I will say that planters usually own large tracts of land.

  • Large tracts of these old chestnut groves are now doomed; a French society in Cosenza, so they tell me, is buying them up for the extraction out of their bark of some chemical or medicine.

  • The intervening region is a plain of rock carved so smoothly, in places, as to appear artificially levelled with the chisel; large tracts of it are covered with the Indian fig (cactus).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    army corps; china clay; large band; large block; large bundle; large collection; large crown; large dish; large extent; large families; large family; large game; large intestine; large majority; large mass; large mound; large pile; large pond; large population; large quantities; large town; large towns; large tracts; large village; larger scale; largest exporter