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“Probably one hundred a-year, one year with another, besides my glebe and pasture-ground.”
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An extensive pasture-ground adjoining, which Deans rented from the keeper of the Royal Park, enabled him to feed his milk-cows; and the unceasing industry and activity of Jeanie, his oldest daughter, were exerted in making the most of their produce.
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“And so if we had mair siller, we might buy that bonny pasture-ground, where the grass comes so early?” asked
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Round the descending sun the clouds glowed purple; summer tints, rather Indian than English, suffused the horizon, and cast rosy reflections on hill-side, house-front, tree-bole; on winding road, and undulating pasture-ground.
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The pasture-ground of the Beni Harb tribe extends as far as
Travels in Arabia 2003
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A huge pasture-ground ran up fan-shaped to the living snow.
Kim 2003
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Meeting in the pasture-ground, they proceeded to quarrel with
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I must mention again the very beautiful effect produced by the masses of berry-bushes, lying like scarlet islands in the midst of withered pasture-ground, or crowning the tops of barren hills.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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The lad would take a seat under the shelter of some rock, and read and study, while Plato would lie at his feet, or run round to see that no sheep or lamb was straying too far from the pasture-ground.
The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various
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Ephraim, is the pasture-ground to which Joseph's brethren had removed their flocks from the paternal estate at Shechem, and where they sold their brother to the Arab traders on their way to Egypt.
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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