Acres

Examples

• 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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