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...other things.” It may further be mentioned that when some of Lord Dundas’s farms are to be let in these islands a competition takes place for the leas... ...ency and advantages attending ship- wrecks on the shores of the respective farms.’ The people of North Ronaldsay still spoke Norse, or, rather, mixed ...

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...cousin is strangely altered: nervous, preoccupied, hardly aware of their existence. They soon discover that a conflict is brewing among the hills and farms of the Medford Valley, one whose origins reach back over a century. They must piece it together from scattered clues, and from the stories told to them by a mysterious bee keeper and his daughter. This 1922 Newbery Hono...

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...w, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the re...

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...s.‖ Horses were taken from their private owners for use at the collective farms, but this often was done before any plans or preparations for their ...

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...idn’t get involved, but a lot of folks weren’t so smart and borrowed on their farms. About a year later he started calling the loans in. That was j... ...got back on his horse. “SEEMS THERE’S A MEETIN’ THIS MORNING AT ONE OF THE FARMS. I THINK WE OUGHT TO MAKE A SURPRISE APPEAR- ANCE.” With that,... ... of partner in a new railroad that’s planning on laying track through all the farms and ranches he’s taxing. I’d guess his plan is to tax those folk... ...d ranches he’s taxing. I’d guess his plan is to tax those folks out of their farms and turn the land over to his railroad for tracks, water station... ...e was either getting money from the railroad for getting the rights to those farms or, more likely, he’d be a part owner of it. Sheriff Burns, on t...

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...ck hunted from their fields, for without Zara’s aid there would have been no farms or livestock to be taken. Too bad the fairies didn’t feel the same....

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... than flags and more majestic than King Sejong the Great's crown. Once their farms had been irrigated into ponds and frogs croaked within the allure o...

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...e for children which leads certain people to establish orphanages and baby farms and schools, seizing any pretext for filling their houses with chil- ...

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...village, with a school- chapel of its own, and a large population. The two farms called Hams and Boyatt border it on the southern or Bishopstoke side,...

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...e scenic route starts to become a little too scenic, with all the expansive farms and endless acres of apple orchards. I take the nearest exit, in o...

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...aptures the excitement of agricultural development in Western Australia during the 1960s. A time when many people headed west from established family farms to make their own mark with the promise of cheap land and opportunity....

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...1 Tony’s and Dawn’s War Years; 2 Merrindie School; 3 Merrindie and Glenheath farms in the 1950’s 4 Horses, tractors, dorsets; 5 Giles Corner; 6 Grandparents; 7 Prince Alfred College; 8 1955 - 1957, and Dawn’s hairdressing career; 9 Trip Overseas – UK; 10 Europe; 11Canada to Calgary 12 Calgary to ...

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...rden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase. They domesticate buffaloes, wild asses, and monkeys. They establish farms and plantations. And finally, they have a terrifying encounter with natives from a nearby island. Johann David Wyss, the author, did not live to complete his tale. Storytellers over the years have injected so many episo...

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...three thousand francs a year, not counting the natural products. Item: the farms of Grassol and Guadet, each worth three thousand six hundred francs a... ...per cent on its rentals, represents, with its furniture, one million.; the farms of Grassol and Guadet and your vineyard of Belle- Rose are worth anot... ...t the very moment when posters are on all the walls of the seizure of your farms at Grassol and Guadet, the vineyard of Belle-Rose and the family mans... ... her to do so.” “I might push the price to seven hundred thousand, and the farms are worth a hundred thousand each.” “Then if the house in Bordeaux ca... ...e amount of her dower claim upon it. Madame Evangelista will also have the farms at Guadet and Grassol, and the mortgages on your house in Bordeaux al...

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...planning to spend, they really spent—on credit. They bought land, mortgages, farms, speculative stocks, fine clothes, horses, and various other things...

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... largely in the History of his Life) was profound and admi rable; in making farms and houses of husbandry of a stan dard; that is, maintained with s...

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...oebaean contest was like that between two village cocks from neigh- boring farms endeavoring to overcrow each other. To us, in this age of purer and m...

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...y these alarms? The ox is only glad!‘‘ But still they pour from cots and farms — ‘‘Halloo!’’ the parish is up in arms, (A hoaxing-hunt has alwa...

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...t. There was a little land, but they were always working on other people’s farms, a barefooted gang, a starved lot. I ought to know because we are dis...

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...Auchinvar property, that should have been poor Archie’s, and what with the farms and the moor, it would bring you in towards three hundred a year for ...

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...for taxation purposes. In the large plains village, the average acreage of farms remained small, the chief estimated families at the time to have had ... ... possible with increased efficiency and exploitation of nature. Only large farms can survive within the new system, and the development in Lampang is ... ...ning of the year 2000, the average arable acreage of the remaining Finnish farms was 30 hectares, about 180 rai, with at least an equivalent area of f... ...ultural environment of the plains. Productive land is transferred to large farms or the control of agricultural industry, Lampang plains become closed... ...e same as before. She doesn't look down on me at all. One of our relatives farms our field and gives us half the crop. It's not enough, but we have to... ...iate over the whole of society. In countries with a predominance of small farms (like Thailand, the average size of farm is c. 2 ha, even less in the...

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...ld houses with pointed roofs, to which are attached three or four adjacent farms. The village, a large village, almost a small mar- ket town, was a fe...

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...g up. I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easil... ...wenty, thirty, or forty years, that they may become the real owners of their farms, which commonly they have inherited with encumbrances, or else boug... ...sed to learn that they cannot at once name a dozen in the town who own their farms free and clear. If you would know the history of these homesteads, ... ...e within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price. I... ...one. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was all I wanted, — but I never got my fingers burned... ...th irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our ob ject being to have large farms and large crops merely. We have no festival, nor procession, nor ce... ... have a social “crack;” one of the few of his vocation who are “men on their farms;” who donned a frock instead of a professor’s gown, and is as Form... ...e think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided. If y...

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... its banks are every- where beautified with fine country seats, woods, and farms; below is the royal palace of Greenwich; above, that of Rich- mond; a...

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...f these coal-miners, in blocks and pairs here and there, together with odd farms and homes of the stockingers, straying over the parish, formed the vi... ... faced the amphitheatre of round hills that glowed with sunset, tiny white farms standing out, the meadows golden, the woods dark and yet luminous, tr...

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...jection.’ They were on the level of the vale, going along a road be- tween farms and mansions, meadows and gardenplots and park-palings. A strong warm...

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...tion.” “I am glad. Do you know, I love those ancient French cha- teaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on poul- try-yard and stalls. I like...

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...more rational to deny them equal status than it would have been to confiscate farms, ropewalks and other forms of property in the 18th century.” Poor J...

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...n 16 acres of fertile soil beneath the Wai‘anae mountains, MA‘O Organic Farms raises top-quality organic fruits and vegetables for sale at farmers...

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...y Almost half of this nation‘s labor force in the early 1880s worked on farms, but a new era of machinery and scientific discovery was bringing dr...

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...n. It begins in caves and shelters; it culminates in a wide spec- tacle of farms and peasant villages, and little towns among the farms. There were wa... ...at amounted in fact to little more than a system of private own- ership of farms and trades without money or any buying and selling, in an atmosphere ...

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...stry,” said this excellent baronet, “because I am going to take one of the farms into my own hands, and see if something cannot be done in setting a g... ...enants being half- starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his farms at rack-rent: who roars himself red at rotten boroughs, and 349 Geor... ...rotten boroughs, and 349 George Eliot does not mind if every field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, n... ...k, “you and I have a differ- ent system. Y ou are all for outlay with your farms. I don’t want to make out that my system is good under all circumstan... ...ge Eliot `Trumpet’ at once by getting Garth to make a new valuation of the farms, and giving him carte blanche about gates and re- pairs: that’s my vi... ...t he says about old tenants, in point of fact no new tenant would take the farms on the present terms.” “I have a notion that he will be brought round... ... soon in your management of the estate—that you are thinking of having the farms valued, and repairs made, and the cottages improved, so that Tipton m... ...orothea asked Mr. Garth to undertake any business connected with the three farms and the numerous tenements attached to Lowick Manor; indeed, his expe...

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...ry,” said this excellent baronet, “be cause I am going to take one of the farms into my own hands, and see if something cannot be done in setting a g... ...tenants being half starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his farms at rack rent: who roars himself red at rotten boroughs, and does not ... ...ars himself red at rotten boroughs, and does not mind if every field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open hearted to Leeds and Manchester, n... ...tick, “you and I have a different system. You are all for outlay with your farms. I don’t want to make out that my system is good under all circumstan... ...hoke the ‘Trumpet’ at once by getting Garth to make a new valuation of the farms, and giving him carte blanche about gates and repairs: that’s my view... ...t he says about old tenants, in point of fact no new tenant would take the farms on the present terms.” “I have a notion that he will be brought round... ... soon in your management of the estate—that you are thinking of having the farms valued, and repairs made, and the cottages improved, so that Tipton m... ...orothea asked Mr. Garth to undertake any business connected with the three farms and the numerous tenements attached to Lowick Manor; indeed, his expe...

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... cold again, and he gave up the thought of making peace with Gabriel. In a farmstead there is always plenty for the master to do. Iván did not stop to... ...ter a time Pahóm noticed that some peasant dealers were living on separate farms, and were growing wealthy; and he thought: ‘If I were to buy some fre...

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... enemy’s territory, and putting all around them to fire and sword; burning farms, wasted fields, shrieking women, slaughtered sons and fathers, and dr...

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...forts being now compleated, and the inhabitants contented to remain on their farms under that protection, I resolved to return; the more willingly, as...

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...e sometimes stayed the night, and his primary residence at the time,Tarnak Farms.After the Afghan tribals reported that they had tried such an ambush ... ...fiction.Thereafter, the capture plan focused on a nighttime raid on Tarnak Farms. 17 A compound of about 80 concrete or mud-brick buildings surrounded... ...out 80 concrete or mud-brick buildings surrounded by a 10-foot wall,Tarnak Farms was located in an isolated desert area on the out- skirts of the Kand... ...on February 13. One group of tribals would subdue the guards, enter Tarnak Farms stealthily, grab Bin Ladin, take him to a desert site outside Kandaha... ...Michael Canavan, was worried about the safety of the tribals inside Tarnak Farms. General Canavan said he had actually thought the operation too compl... ...t terrorist camps in Afghanistan, including Bin Ladin’s compound at Tarnak Farms. 38 After the embassy attacks, the Pentagon offered this plan to the ... ...paper, Berger jotted down the pres- ence of 7 to 11 families in the Tarnak Farms facility, which could mean 60–65 casualties. Berger noted the possibl... ...a security detail around a tall man in a white robe at Bin Ladin’s T arnak Farms compound outside Kandahar.After a second sighting of the “man in whit... ... that trainee would be invited to the al Qaeda leader’s compound at Tarnak Farms for further meetings. 103 KSM claims that Bin Ladin could assess new ...

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...gs on which we cut Between they lofty rocks. Enchanting show Those woods and farms and orchards did present, And single cottages and lurking towns— Re...

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.... A man whose estate extends over a whole district, and who owns a hundred farms, is well aware of the importance of gaining at the same time the affe... ...s branches have spread. In the course of the last fifty years the rents of farms have amazingly increased, not only in France but throughout the great... ...have fallen under the control of the State. The State either works them or farms them; the owners of them are mere tenants, deriv- ing their rights fr...

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... church; the plantations; and behind him an unspoilt country of fields and farms. But he, too, was rolling the event luxuriously 86 Howards End in hi... ...“As far as the house, never.” “Well, Howards End is one of those converted farms. They don’t really do, spend what you will on them. We messed away wi... ...et him as a deliverer. “Misman- agement did it—besides, the days for small farms are over. It doesn’t pay—except with intensive culti- vation. Small h... ...ret, and ended by giving her a feeling of complete- ness. In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in ...

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...ance. I ate and slept with the people, in their little cabins. I saw their farms, their schools, their churches. Since, in the case of the most of the... ...e feared the result of education would be that the Negroes would leave the farms, and that it would be difficult to secure them for domestic service. ...

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... yet every copy was sold. When the trial came on, people came from all the farms around, and from Hannibal, and Quincy, and even from Keokuk; and the ...

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... the produce of their lands, and out of whom they made their rent of their farms; and to be so cruel to the inhabitants of London, or to any of those ...