He homesteaded, preempted and also took up a timber claim and he likewise purchased railroad land, owning at one time seven quarter sections.
For one term Mr. Danielson taught school in that state and in 1884 he came to Washington, settling on Whiskey creek in Walla Walla county, where he filed on a homestead and preempted another quarter section.
In 1877, soon after his marriage, Mr. Nixon removed to Whitman county and took up a homestead and tree claim and preemptedanother one hundred and sixty acres of land.
He first preempted one hundred and sixty acres and at the same time took up a timber claim, while three years later he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of railroad land.
In 1872 they removed to Walla Walla county, Washington, where Mr. Lambdin preempted a quarter section of land just across the line in Oregon, on the present site of Freewater.
He acquired another adjoining one hundred and sixty acres; also homesteaded one hundred and sixty and preempted one hundred and sixty; then, in later years, he bought five hundred acres more.
They took up their abode on Whiskey creek, in what is now Columbia county but was then a part of Walla Walla county, and the father preempted a quarter section of land, upon which he continued to reside until called to his final home.
The lowlands were preemptedlong ago, and the contest for parts of them between the mills and the homes has been intense.
Moreover, one bank ispreempted by the railroad, the other by the long and unsightly stretches of mill yard.
In a general way, the French element have preempted the eastern end of the city for themselves, while the English-speaking portion of the population clings to the section north and west of Phillips square and Ste.
Maybe the pretty girls will all bepreempted before you get there," Leigh replied.
But groves had rooted, low windbreaks cut the country at frequent intervals; many acres of sod had been turned by the plow, and many more were being shut in by fences where the open cattle range was preempted by freeholds.
Carey had preemptedwhere the upper fork of Grass River crossed the old Sunflower trail.
Machiavelli is the classic of this school, a man most mercilessly maligned, because he happened to be the first naturalist who used plain language in a field hitherto preempted by supernaturalists.
In thirty-four out of the forty observers the stereotypes preempted at least one-tenth of the scene.
He preempted land on the Pataha prairie and resided there until 1876.
In 1877 he took up his abode in Palouse, Whitman county, Washington, and preempted one hundred and sixty acres, on which he lived for six or seven years.
As the play began he turned and looked at the "killer" who had been named "Butch," after he had shot two heads of families that had preemptedland on the range that Brady claimed as part of his holding.
Next door to the cabin that Simpson had preempted on the first-come-first-served order that prevailed, was one of the olden saloons.
Around the walls of the yellow parlor, chairs stood two deep, occupied, or preempted by fan or gloves or lacy handkerchief.
A Lilliputian spider-web was stretched over the preempted keyhole, and he fetched a grass-stem and poked out its tiny gray-striped denizen before he inserted the key in the rusted lock.
When these men came in, the old prisoners had preempted all the vacant land adjoining their quarters, and they sold their right to it, to these tender-feet for large sums, for the purpose of putting up shelters on.
The Gardner, Thatcher, and Marble claims were allpreempted by the settlers of 1858 without regard to their former holders.
Mrs. Marble, the only other survivor of the massacre at Lake Okoboji and Spirit Lake, likewise found her husband's claim preemptedupon her return.
Prescott who had preempted the claim, the sum was only nominal and in no sense an adequate compensation for the property lost.
But when his wandering brought him again to the place he had abandoned at the stern, he found that it had been preempted by another.
Out of his eyes slowly went the apathy of despair and another look of even stronger feeling preempted its place: a look of worship and adoration.
The determination with which Sim had set out on his mission of death had largely preempted his field of thought.
The pedestrian paths were further away and, at this hour, preempted by the inevitable babies, mothers and nurse-maids.
That this already was preempted by a group of busy beings and a couple of two-wheeled tool cars of the miniature Noah's Ark sort used by highway contractors, did not concern the runaway.
While Mrs. Orr may not have been jealous, she preempted her husband's home hours mercilessly; but in her father's death Hortense came to know that one of the few props of her stability had been removed.
This was part of the land of the Louisiana Purchase, and my father bought a quarter section (160 acres) from the man whopreempted it from the government.
We preempted land on section twenty-eight north of range ten west, in what is now Highland township.
After the raid the new owner deserted the place, in the fall of 1869, and in a few months Mr. Roper returned from Beatrice and again preempted the same place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preempted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
