Their incomes are supplemented by a small glebe, which is attached to each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference

In a real sense, what the village shared with the rectory and the glebe was a boundary.    From Wordnik.com.  [NationNews - Barbados] Reference

Wells forth and piecemeal breaks the sodden glebe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

And so farewell; for thy suit touching the glebe land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

One-half of the town is glebe belonging to the rectory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

If the glebe land is proportionate, it may yield two potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

Mrs. Fairfield, struck into a path that led toward his own glebe.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

Busy with breaking the glebe, and mowing the grass in the meadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference

The glebe was littered with mangled fusilages and blackened wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell] Reference

The door opened upon a wide lawn, bounded by the glebe and orchard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference

This roused truly frightening images in my mind until I looked up glebe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Church-Owned Cow”] Reference

Strongly have built them and well; and, breaking the glebe round about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference

The soul of man has never yet in any land been willingly adscript to the glebe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

Nor did he even disdain to cultivate a few acres of glebe land annexed to the rectory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference

Add to all these changes, that the garden was weeded, and the glebe was regularly laboured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

“Probably one hundred a-year, one year with another, besides my glebe and pasture-ground.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

This field extended to the limits of the glebe, which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

Local tradition also states of a certain piece of woodland attached to the glebe of this parish, called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

A friend of mine, a country parson, on first going to his parish, resolved to farm his glebe for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference

But by this time my glebe was not the only land on which I could plant my foot and say, Lo, thou art mine! for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

He had been enabled to purchase a field or two close abutting on the glebe-gardens, and had there built convenient premises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference

The blacksmith sweats at the sultry forge, the sawyer labours pent-up in his pit and the husbandman turns up the sterile glebe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference

Before the commencement of the thirteenth century the city clergy had been supported by casual dues in addition to their glebe land.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of praedial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

It was late in the evening, and he wandered away up through the green rides of a wood the borders of which came down to the glebe fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference

Aunt Letty had already gone to the glebe, and Herbert was still down at the “water privilege,” talking to a millwright and a carpenter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Richmond] Reference

As when at times dark glebe, new-turned, is changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference

Is the culture to be slovenly where the glebe is so fertile?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

The Great North Road should have been bordered all its length with glebe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howards End] Reference

A little parcel of glebe and a few vines, tended by honest rustics, were his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference

The winers in the glebe don't want it, it's not a good location to get to, Ottawa cannot support a football team based on past performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference