...He hunted, and he cultivated his acres, and superficially he appeared to be little better than any of his rustic metayers... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...There was a deep sob and a gathering roar, and the Virgin flung up a couple of acres of foaming water, white, furious, and ghastly over the shoal sea...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...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」
...For many miles on either side the river was fringed with dense groves of the green nabbuk, but upon the east bank an island had been formed of about three hundred acres...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...We walked thus about a mile and a half when we came out upon an open space, some ten acres in extent, through which the path ran...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...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」
...I have seen twenty or thirty acres of land completely covered with these birds or their nests, wedged together as close as they could sit...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...Far up the mountains, we saw one plantation, in which fifty or sixty acres had been covered with pines, within a few years; some of the infant trees being only an inch high...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...On these tracts not a tree or a bush is visible for acres together; but whether the soil was left naked by nature, or rendered so by cultivation, is yet to be ascertained...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...He affirms, that his countrymen were promised fifty acres of land, each, in Sierra Leone, on condition of relinquishing the land already in their possession in Nova Scotia...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...InRhodesia over ninety million acres have been practically confiscated...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...This small farm contains between forty and fifty acres, and is the fruit of my father's toil...
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」
...We kept at the work each afternoon, until we had cleared about twenty acres and had planted a crop...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...By 1875the Negroes probably had gotten hold of something between 2,000,000and 4,000,000 acres of land through their bounties as soldiersand the low price of land after the war...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...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」
...The twenty acres of cleared swamp land, attended to by the voluntary labor of all the tenants, was soon bearing a magnificent crop...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
... The wharves were piled high with cotton bales,and there were acres of barrels of resin and pitch and tar and spiritsof turpentine...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...The Dismal Swamps cover many thousand acres of wild land, and a dense forest, with wild animals and insects such as are unknown in any other part of Virginia...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
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