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Sentences starting with acres

Acres deep they will march. [5]

Sentences ending with acres

Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
Most of them were in conspicuous positions, and surrounded by wide acres. [9]
But first, mark this: I have in the West here some land--three hundred and twenty acres. [11]
Our specialists, more particularly, depend on the month's product, on the yearly crop of new facts, new suggestions, new contrivances, as much as the farmer on the annual yield of his acres. [3]
The garden is on high ground in the middle of the town, overlooking the great harbor, and it adjoins the spacious grounds of Government House--fifty-six acres; and at hand also, is a recreation ground containing eighty-two acres. [5]
It's a good house, though--Palass saw to that--and it's insured; but still I know you'd have come just the same if I'd had only two acres. [11]
In the place from whence it was first moved, it left a gaping distance forty foot broad, and fourscore Ells long; the whole Field was about twenty Acres. [4]
He owned this fine old estate of some hundreds of acres. [6]
All about the field, like heaps of manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded to each couple of acres. [2]

Short sentences using acres

It covers acres. [9]

Sentences containing acres two or more times

If, up to this time, I had seen only one "old master" in each palace, instead of acres and acres of walls and ceilings fairly papered with them, might I not have a more civilized opinion of the old masters than I have now? [5]
The quantity of public land disposed of during the five quarters ending on the thirtieth of September last was 4,221,342 acres, of which 1,538,614 acres were entered under the homestead law. [7]
The aggregate number of acres surveyed during the year has been equal to the quantity disposed of, and there is open to settlement about 133,000,000 acres of surveyed land. [7]
I know acres and acres of men who have done time in a legislature in prehistoric days, but among them is not half an acre whose resentment you would not raise if you addressed them as "Mr." instead of "Hon. [5]

More example sentences with the word acres in them

In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. [5]
It was Austen who made a note of the gratings over the drains, and of the acres of orderly forest in a mysterious and seemingly enchanted realm. [9]
Two thousand acres which, since the General's death, had been at sixes and sevens. [9]
With the dwelling-house went the possession of three acres of land. [4]
Our pine forest was well scorched, the dead trees all burned up, and our broad acres of manzanita swept away. [5]
Of course, there was no reason why you should come to see me really--I've 'only got two hundred acres and the house. [11]
France is shrunk to a couple of acres of ground; a sheriff's constable could take care of it; its affairs are not matters of state. [5]
However, he plowed through these papers, removing unnecessary flowers and digging up some acres of adjective stumps, and then succeeded in getting two of the articles accepted. [5]
What--" "I have the three hundred and twenty acres out there"--he pointed westward--"and I will make a home and begin again with her. [11]
By twelve o'clock, the city began to empty itself upon the Theresien meadow; and long before the time for the king to arrive --two o'clock--there were acres of people waiting for the performance to begin. [4]
He came into that fellow's one day with a plan for cutting up the eighty acres he'd kept into town lots; and he'd got it all plotted out so-well, and had so many practical ideas about it, that the fellow was astonished. [8]
At the dressing stations the grass and earth were soaked with blood for a space of some three acres around. [2]
And in the spring of '73, when the opportunity was suddenly offered to buy a thousand acres of excellent wheat land adjoining, I made the purchase for him while he was at Williamsburg, and upon my own responsibility. [9]
For, in a spirit of munificence, the Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia had awarded to every private in that regiment one hundred and eight acres of land on the Ohio River, north of the Falls. [9]
Thirteen acres, you see, for just one building; it's a farm. [5]
All the front ranks, no telling how many acres deep, were horsemen--plumed knights in armor. [5]
One isn't a printer ten years without setting up acres of good and bad literature, and learning--unconsciously at first, consciously later--to discriminate between the two, within his mental limitations; and meantime he is unconsciously acquiring what is called a "style. [5]
Around the tents, over more than five acres, bloodstained men in various garbs stood, sat, or lay. [2]
The streets of our own city turned out to be gold; gold likewise the acres of unused, scrubby land on our outskirts, as the incident of the Riverside Franchise--which I am about to relate--amply proved. [9]
The broad acres of Wedderburn stretched across many highways, but the manor-house (as it had been called) stood on an eminence whence one could look for miles down the Yale of the Blue. [9]
And other wonders of that strange land I saw then for the first time: great licks, trampled down for acres by the wild herds, where the salt water oozes out of the hoofprints. [9]
The botanical garden of Sydney covers thirty-eight acres, beautifully laid out and rich with the spoil of all the lands and all the climes of the world. [5]
The Thermal-springs District of New Zealand comprises an area of upwards of 600,000 acres, or close on 1,000 square miles. [5]
And is it not appalling to think of the 'large constitution of this man,' when you reflect on the acres of canvas which he has covered? [6]
You who will may look at the plat made by William Clark, Surveyor for the Board of Commissioners, and find sixteen acres marked for Thomas McChesney in Section 169, and two hundred more in Section 3. [9]
The estate was large,--hundreds of acres, with woodlands and meadows of great value. [6]
There isn't much land in the principality, but there's enough: eight hundred acres in the graveyard and forty-two outside. [5]
The prairie, with its new grass and unending acres of brilliant flowers--chiefly the innumerable varieties of phlox-bore the look of years of cultivation, and the occasional open groves of white oaks gave it a park-like appearance. [5]
A corner of it touched the railroad, but the rest was pretty much an unbroken wilderness, eight or ten thousand acres of rough country, most of it such a mountain range as he saw at Ilium. [5]
I have been in the Doge's palace and I saw several acres of very bad drawing, very bad perspective, and very incorrect proportions. [5]
He now goes, in increasing number, to see where the bowlder once hung, and spends his time in hunting for it in the acres of wreck and debris. [4]
In the evening I walked out alone, skirting the acres of Carvel Hall, each familiar landmark touching the quick of some memory of other days. [9]
Virginia has given him a sword, eight thousand wild acres to be sure, repudiated the debts of his army, and left him to starve. [9]
The Government gave him a money-reward and a thousand acres of land; and the people held mass-meetings and praised him and emphasized their praise with a large subscription of money. [5]
He found himself, he injected himself into our lives--" "And has made mine a purgatory for ten years with his tiresome letters, his wordy reasonings, his acres of tedious evidence,--" "Which you would never read, would never consent to read. [5]
Largely speaking, I have read acres of what purported to be Mrs. Eddy's writings, in the past two months. [5]
A monarch would have given him fifty thousand acres on the Wabash, a palace, and a sufficient annuity. [9]
At twenty-three they had become orphans, with two hundred acres of land, some cash, horses and cattle, and plenty of credit in the parish, or in the county, for that matter. [11]
It provided also for the purchase of sixty-five thousand acres of land, (fully described) for the purposes of the University, in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
Farcinelle was stipulating for five acres of river-land as another item in Sophie's dot. [11]
Under the lightning flashes one could see the plantation cabins and the goodly acres tumble into the river; and the crash they made was not a bad effort at thunder. [5]
I've got a farm of four hundred acres twenty miles from here. [11]
Well, they are evidence that I have taken up Seventy-five Thousand Acres of Land in this county --think what an enormous fortune it will be some day! [5]
Since the 1st day of January last the before-mentioned quantity of 1,456,514 acres of land have been taken up under its provisions. [7]
Long before the crash came, in Zoe's name--not his own--he had bought from the Government three hundred and twenty acres of land out near the Rockies and had spent five hundred dollars in improvements on it. [11]
Every effort had been made to secure the refusal of the whole amount of the property of the Hawkins heirs in the Knobs, some seventy-five thousand acres Mr. Buckstone said. [5]
The ox must be taken from the plough, and the horse from the cart, the hundred acres of the farm must be spaded, and the man must walk wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him. [6]
He can add as many acres as he will to the narrow house-lot. [6]
Sergeant Thomas McChesney, as a reward for his services in one of the severest campaigns in history, received a grant of two hundred and sixteen acres! [9]
We liked the appearance of the place, and so we claimed some three hundred acres of it and stuck our "notices" on a tree. [5]
Wilson is the agent of the New York owner of a tract of some thirteen thousand acres of forest, including the greater portion of Mount Mitchell, a wilderness well stocked with bears and deer, and full of streams abounding in trout. [4]
The eastern forty acres I intend to keep for Mother while she lives; if you will not cultivate it, it will rent for enough to support her; at least it will rent for something. [7]
Now arrived the abbot and several hundred monks and nuns, and behind them a multitude of pilgrims and a couple of acres of foundlings, all drawn by the prodigious smoke, and all in a grand state of excitement. [5]
Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more, of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. [4]
On it was a little house and shed, and no better garden-stuff grew in the parish than on this same five acres. [11]
Presently Smith traded a few acres of the ranch for a small undeveloped silver mine in Gold Hill. [5]

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