The arpent is the old French measure that is approximately one acre in size. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
They was sold for ten dollars an arpent back in the twenties. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
"Paysan sautant sur son petit arpent" (1947) takes its inspiration from the graffiti found on Parisian walls. From Wordnik.com. [James Turrell's Skyspace Offers a Meditation on Light and Time] Reference
An arpent is about one-seventh less than an acre; and a minot about one-eighth (some say one-twelfth) more than a bushel. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The corn-lands here rent for about fifteen livres the arpent. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
The arpent of inferior quality sells at one thousand florins. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
The arpent contains one hundred verges, of twenty-two pieds square. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
The three fa�ons (or workings) of an arpent cost fifteen florins. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
The whole year's expense of an arpent is worth one hundred florins. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
An arpent of ground for corn rents at from thirty to thirty-six livres. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
But I'm not go more mebbe t'ree arpent, w'en de sky is get black all roun '. From Wordnik.com. [The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems] Reference
An arpent yields one hundred quintals of hay a year, worth three livres the quintal. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
For this land he had paid one dollar, sixty-five cents per arpent (35), or French acre. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811] Reference
The rents of the corn-lands, farmed for money, are about ten or twelve livres the arpent. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
The arpent is to the statute acre nearly in the proportion of eighty-three to one hundred. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811] Reference
In the regions of small farms, and of the métayer system, he gets fifteen sous the arpent, eight sous and even six sous. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
"Lamarque is an old pensioner of Monsieur de St. Gre's," said she; "he has a house and an arpent of land not far below here.". From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
An arpent is 3400 SqM or a bit less than an acre. From Wordnik.com. [What is the evidence against warmer MWP? « Climate Audit] Reference
Wan arpent from de shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
W'en 'bout arpent from home, sapré. From Wordnik.com. [The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems] Reference
I'm sure you can hear heem ten-twelve arpent. From Wordnik.com. [The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems] Reference
An arpent of land was 180 French feet square. From Wordnik.com. [The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776] Reference
An 'whole place she's mebbe two honder arpent. From Wordnik.com. [The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems] Reference
An arpent rents at from twenty to sixty livres. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
Je ne veux quun arpent; pour le mesurer mieux. From Wordnik.com. [Rêves ambitieux] Reference
SI javais un arpent de sol, mont, val ou plaine. From Wordnik.com. [Rêves ambitieux] Reference
And den dare be fifty arpent 'rice gone! ". From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
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