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  • "It takes rich soil to make trees like those," a ten-acre farmer told them.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • What ten-acre farmer, on two-hundred-dollar land, who keeps books, can keep a horse for seventy dollars

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • I kill my own business, if it works, for it will do away with the one horse of every ten-acre farmer between here and Jericho.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • One of the items on that list would be–and I have this from a couple of sources–Henry Stuart called his ten-acre parcel of land “Tolstoy Park.

    Sonny Brewer - An interview with author 2010

  • There was a ten-acre piece that had been rented out to another farmer to grow corn the year before, and the soil there was loose.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • "You cross the ten-acre lot, follow the lane to the highway, go north to the five branches, and take -- let me see --"

    Love Letters 2010

  • She climbed the fence into the ten-acre lot and he followed her, walking slowly and stumbling over the little hillocks in the pasture as if he was thinking of something else and did not notice them.

    Love Letters 2010

  • Harvey: The desirability now of ranchettes, small ten-acre parcels with a small garden where retirees and young people can go and really make it with a windmill and solar panels.

    Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009

  • Lugonia Ave. This was a ten-acre orange grove which is now a large mobilehome park.

    Driving 2009

  • Lugonia Ave. This was a ten-acre orange grove which is now a large mobilehome park.

    Fillmore, CA - The Last Best Small Town? 2009

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