Preference for one with home-farm immediately adjacent. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference
Currywongoan, at Greenmount, and at the home-farm at Dowris. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
But there was a home-farm attached to the place, which also now belonged to Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
“The larger and better part of the estates, including this house and grounds, and the home-farm.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
The home-farm buildings could be seen, but not the Grange, for, situate on the lowly level dear to ancestors, it was wrapped from the sight in trees. From Wordnik.com. [Over the River] Reference
The "manor" consisted of the "demesne," which was the lord's home-farm, attached to his dwelling, and the villagers 'land, which was held by the villeins for their own use, on the condition of the cultivation of their lord's ground. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
I was only a girl of ten when my father and his servants had a skirmish with a party of them, near our home-farm -- so near, indeed, that some of the windows of the house were broken by the bullets, and three of the Highland raiders were killed. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
So I tripped down the back staircase and away to the stables with a bit of sugar for Brilliant, who had arrived safely by the train in company with White Stockings, and on through the kitchen-garden and the home-farm up to the free, fresh, breezy down. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
Tomkins worked on the home-farm, there was an old draw-well. From Wordnik.com. [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference
This worthy nobleman was and is much attached to his home-farm. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
Col. Lloyd's estate comprised twenty-seven thousand acres, and the home-farm seven thousand. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston] Reference
He paid over to his father the rents from Folking, but he had the house and home-farm for nothing. From Wordnik.com. [John Caldigate] Reference
I am battling to let the home-farm to Martineau, the keeper, whose eldest son can now take his place. From Wordnik.com. [The Lily of the Valley] Reference
Iles has taken the man on as carter at the home-farm, and given the eldest boy a job with the woodmen. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
He afterwards returned, bringing with him a Portuguese wife, and settled as shepherd on the home-farm of Ayton Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Principal Cairns]
He transacted all the business of house, stable, gardens, and home-farm, and that in the most precise and punctual manner. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference
In short, on his return he was obliged to sell the home-farm, and even this did not bring in sufficient money to satisfy his creditors. From Wordnik.com. [Majoor Frans. English] Reference
I took the direction of the home-farm, where I hoped to obtain a glass of new milk, and draw the tenants out a little about the inhabitants of the. From Wordnik.com. [Majoor Frans. English] Reference
I could see that bits of news were carried from it to the servants in the kitchen, in the garden, in the stable, and over the way to the home-farm. From Wordnik.com. [The Seaboard Parish Volume 1] Reference
The poor little property -- shrunk to a home-farm of ninety acres, a humble homestead, and the Manor House -- may have been thought hardly worth selling; or Sir. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
But the moment I got him out of the house, he gave a groan, and, breaking away from me, rushed down a road leading from the back of the house towards the home-farm. From Wordnik.com. [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference
But Thomas was now old enough to earn a higher wage by other work on the home-farm or in the woods, and so it came to be John's turn to take up the work among the sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Principal Cairns] Reference
After the mowers, all the workers employed on the home-farm, men, women, and boys, entered the field to turn the swathes, which in a few hours were dried by the burning sun. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
In addition to the cultivation of the home-farm of 100 acres, the increased amount of stock makes it necessary to rent an adjacent pasture of 80 acres, the property of two of our teachers. From Wordnik.com. [Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements] Reference
Clochegourde, without the reserved land which we call the home-farm, and without the timber and vineyards, brings in nineteen thousand francs a year, and the plantations are becoming valuable. From Wordnik.com. [The Lily of the Valley] Reference
But there was a home-farm attached to the place, which also now belonged to Lady Ongar for her life, and which gave to the park itself an appearance of extent which it would otherwise have wanted. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
Did you take kindly to the syllabubs and new milk, the summer sunrise over dewy fields, the pretty dairy-maids, and prize pigs, and daily inspections of the home-farm? or did you find life rather dull down at Lidford?. From Wordnik.com. [Fenton's Quest] Reference
Starting at six o'clock in the morning, accompanied by the faithful collie "Cheviot," he made a round of all the grass-parks on the home-farm, beginning down near the sea and thence working his way round to a point considerably higher up than the mansion-house. From Wordnik.com. [Principal Cairns] Reference
Starting at six o'clock in the morning, accompanied by the faithful collie “Cheviot,” he made a round of all the grass-parks on the home-farm, beginning down near the sea and thence working his way round to a point considerably higher up than the mansion-house. From Wordnik.com. [Principal Cairns]
Some loitered on the lawn by the flower-beds and the fountain; some visited the stables and the home-farm, with its cow-houses and dairy and piggeries; some the neglected greenhouses, and some the equally neglected old - fashioned alleys, with their clipped yews and their moss-grown statues. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Marston] Reference
A Portuguese wife, and settled as shepherd on the home-farm of Ayton. From Wordnik.com. [Principal Cairns] Reference
The home-farm feeds the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
Her son grew up a mere hind upon the home-farm. From Wordnik.com. [Shining Ferry] Reference
In the evening Donal went again to the home-farm. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
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