...It covers nearly a hundred acres, and is situatedon an eminence on the left bank of the river... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...As I scanned the acres ofrough moor and then looked at the sea lapping delicately on the grey sand I hadthe feeling that a knotty problem was before me...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...All that I could make out for certain was that he hadcrossed the stream, and that his business, whatever it was, had been with thefew acres of tumbled wilderness below the precipices...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...But he had loved the bungalow and the broad, free acres best and so shehad come to love them best, too...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
... “I have more than half a mind,” said Porthos, flattered by the remark, “to make Madame Truchen a present of my little farm at Bracieux; it has twelve acres...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...They find garden-ground enough on the gentle slopes at the sides of the rivulets, and possess no cattle to eat off the millions of acres of fine hay we were now wading through...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Therailroad station and store-houses are close to the river bank, and,spread over several acres of cinders, are the railroad yard andmachine shops...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...The United Statesgovernment was seriously considering the distribution of land andcapital—"40 acres and a mule"—and the price of cotton opened an easyway to economic independence...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...Last year his wife took on her hands about 130 acres of land, and with her force she raised about 107 bales of cotton...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
... The fertile garden, many acres in size, constituting a separate establishment, distinct from the common farm—with its scientific gardener, imported from Scotland (a Mr...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...By 1880 this was increasedto about 6,000,000 acres; in 1890 to about 8,000,000 acres; in 1900to over 12,000,000 acres...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...They saythat in the Union of South Africa 1,250,000 whites own 264,000,000 acres ofland, while the 4,500,000 natives have only 21,000,000 acres...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...Huge bonfires blazed and crackled, until at last a wide black scar appeared in the thick south side of the swamp, which widened and widened to full twenty acres...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
... meant to sign a contract to sell this wench two hundred acres of land?" ...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
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