This wood, exceeding a thousand acres in extent, stretched down from the hills along some broken and otherwise little valuable land, and had been reserved from the axe to meet the wants of some future day.
Some among us maintain that no man ought to hold more than a thousand acres of land, while others think natur' has laid down the law on that p'int, and that a man shouldn't hold more than he has need on.
Some of the reformers propose that no man shall hold more than a thousand acres of land, while others lay down the very intelligible and distinct principle that no man ought to hold more than he can use.
Of this level and fertile bottomland there was near a thousand acres, stretching in three directions, of which two hundred belonged to what was called the Nest farm.
The free grants so obtained were not to exceed a thousand acres.
The surveyor-general reports in 1732 that not as many as a thousand acres within a hundred miles of Charleston, or within twenty miles of a river or navigable creek, were unpossessed.
As for the Prairie, could it be made to grow grasses, it would be a treasure to the colony, inasmuch as its extent reached fully to a thousand acres.
Of this level and fertile bottom-land there was near a thousand acres, stretching in three directions, of which two hundred belonged to what was called the Nest Farm.
This vast mass of virgin soil they sold to speculators at nominal prices, sometimes receiving a horse or a gun for a thousand acres.
Every such settler also acquired a preemptive right to purchase a thousand acres adjoining, at the regulation State price, which was forty pounds, paper money, or forty dollars in specie, for every hundred acres.
He then claimed the soil as his under the Cherokee deed; and disposed of it to the settlers who contracted to pay ten dollars a thousand acres.
If he or any other man of the black race could acquire one thousand acres of such land it would stand out with more credit to the Negro race than all the protestations of a world of agitators in so far as the individual was concerned.
Don't own a thousand acres of land, but certainly takes care of home like a man.
Imagining myself the lord of a thousand acres, I achieved a profound joy of living.
I went on with my purchase of lands till I had my thousand acres, but these acres were in scattered plots and the house with the patio and the porch was never built.
A thousand acres could be cut over each year without detriment to the forest, and if sent in this way to Limoges, would find a ready market for building purposes.
Gerard had built five farmhouses with their dependencies upon it, with a thousand acresto each.
Gerard bought for himself and for Monsieur Grossetete a thousand acres on the other side of the high-road to Montegnac.
This is the way those two-thousand acres of coal lands were swiped!
For three years, Wayland, you have been fighting over those two-thousand acres of coal land where the Smelter stands.
The Neace Cattle Company owns twenty thousand acres of land in Montana and John C.
The greater part of the active supervision of the work devolves upon Mr. Ferrel of this review and he is one of the largest grain growers of his township, having under cultivation in 1917 more than a thousand acres.
Of course, these cattle could not live on your father's thousand acres, but the ranges are free and the thousand acres answered very well as a headquarters.
He finally acquired a thousand acres; he told me that at one time he had about five thousand head of cattle.
It is everywhere recognized that the great outcome of a man's life is not the title to a thousand acres.
The tract of a thousand acres on Cape Cod had been protected by humble beach grass.
If he had not been tied down all his life to a so-called worn-out farm of a thousand acres, he might just as well have been the Governor of the State.
We have worked hard, and we have kept as much stock as we could, but we could never produce enough fertilizer on the farm to go very far on a thousand acres.
I've got a thousand acres of land--which I paid for in spot cash to Dick Kessler about eight years ago.
I own five thousand acres, and about a thousand acres of it is the best coal land in the United States.
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