Acre

Examples

• The grounds were more than an acre and a quarter in extent, and they were filled with people! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We have an acre of hot-houses, and pines as common as pays in the sayson. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Few of these islets contained over an acre of ground, but presently we sighted a much larger one directly ahead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Some of the giant redwood logs must be split in the woods with powder before they can be handled on the saw carriage, and the average yield per acre is in the neighborhood of 150,000 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the present state of Europe, the proprietor of a single acre of land is as perfectly secure in his possession as the proprietor of 100,000. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We must let Edison tell the story of some of his experiences: At the Universal Exposition at Paris, in 1889, I made a personal exhibit covering about an acre. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The mules were first driven into a stockade, called a corral, inclosing an acre or more of ground. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The American machine cut an acre of oats in twenty-two minutes, the English machine in sixty-six minutes, and the Algerian in seventy-two. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Take any nation that produces large crop yields per acre and you will find that the nation that uses the most nitrogen per acre grows the largest crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then he tried to take Acre, where his own siege artillery, just captured at sea by the English, was used against him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Usually less seed should be planted per acre under dry-farming conditions than is used in humid sections. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It seems Robin's fame attracted more visitants than was consistent with the growth of the heather, upon a moor worth a shilling an acre. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He could make a great flourish over the battle of Aboukir and conceal the shame and loss of Acre. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He plants an acre, and when this is in bloom he inspects it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One apple-raiser in this district gathered two hundred bushels of apples per acre from his six-year-old trees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Before sunset he had cut six acres of wheat, and convinced his audience that his machine was a great improvement over the old method. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He waved his whip in the direction of the Bellomont acres, which lay outspread before them in opulent undulations. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It built up countless acres of hitherto unprofitable land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He married Miss Griswold of Poughkeepsie, and bought an estate of two hundred acres near that city. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To supply this number of sleepers, 300,000 trees were felled, the growth of which would require little less than 5,000 acres of forest land. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Pitt's money and acres had a great effect upon his brother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Such a negro, over and above this quantity of tobacco, can manage, they reckon, four acres of Indian corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On the following Saturday it was shown at Trappe, and it was afterwards used on the farm of Mr. Tench Tilghman, where 180 acres of wheat, oats and barley were cut with it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Seventy-five acres a day is its task. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The great Harburg-Vienna factories cover sixty-seven acres, are capitalized at 9,000,000 marks, and employ 3,500 hands. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Dalrymple farms in 1893 had 54,000 acres in wheat, and employed 283 self-binding reapers to harvest the crop. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Many hundred millions of acres in Asia, Africa, and America are still in a forest, and a great deal even in Europe. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They extended, he declared, over fifty acres. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Men who heard of a machine that would cut one hundred and seventy-five acres of wheat in less than eight days--as happened in one case--naturally decided that it was worth investigating. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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