例文・使い方で印象づける「acres」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...At some points fire had been used with considerable success as abarrier, hundreds of acres of forest lands being destroyed in theendeavor to stem the crimson tide... 
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...He hunted, and he cultivated his acres, and superficially he appeared to be little better than any of his rustic metayers...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...I remember he described with tremendous gusto the joys ofearly dawn in Tyrol, when you ascended through acres of flowery meadows to atooth of clean white limestone against a clean blue sky...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...But he had loved the bungalow and the broad, free acres best and so shehad come to love them best, too...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
... Such a house, with half a dozen acres of land, would be fit for a king, and make him very happy, too...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...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」
...The palaces of this country generally consistof a perfect square wall, containing from two toforty acres of land, or more; for the imperialpalace at Mequinas covers about two squaremiles of ground...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...We came upon beautiful, spacious, open lawns of from eighty to one hundred acres apiece, separated from each other by narrow strips of tall forest trees...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...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」
...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」
...Only two or three acres have been assigned to each individual...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...InRhodesia over ninety million acres have been practically confiscated...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
... 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」
...From this small beginning wehave grown until now the Institute owns two thousand acres of land, eighthundred of which are cultivated each year by the young men of the school...
Booker T. Washington, et al. 「The Negro Problem」
...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」
...Maxwell has ten thousand acres and Mr...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
... "About twenty acres...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Huge bonfires blazed and crackled, until at last a wide black scar appeared in the thick south side of the swamp, which widened and widened to full twenty acres...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...We want to keep this hundred acres for the public good, and not sell it...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
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