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Usage examples of homestead.

Following the precise and neatly written directions Barth had provided, Anna found the Posey homestead without incident.

But when he had reached the Bartram homestead, Saybrook had indulged in sober thought, and now felt a bond of warm friendship toward Hurley Adams.

Despite the fact that he had previously called for the secret purpose of conferring with Mahinda, Doctor Shores now avoided the Bartram homestead.

When the soul in its beautified or spirit body arrived there, the ministers of Osiris took it to the homestead or place of abode which had been allotted to it by the command of Osiris, and there it began its new existence.

She remembered a clear autumn night five years ago when she had led Bounder, docile as a lamb, to the front veranda of the homestead, where the boss sat in a straight-back chair watching her with his unflinching gaze.

She caught Gimme and Bounder, who had found his way back to the homestead after a week in the open, and was saddling them when she saw her uncle approaching.

Behind her she heard the sharp clack of horseshoes against stone and knew that Bounder was on his way back to the homestead.

They reined in at the edge of the paddock, just below the homestead, and walked the horses into the deeper darkness below the outspread branches of the trees.

A tropical scene, luxuriant with tangled overgrowth and impressive in the grandeur of its phenomena, may more decisively arrest our attention than an English landscape with its green corn lands and plenteous homesteads.

I want you to roust Repp Taylor out of his bunk and get him up to The Homestead now!

We all started back again at different angles, our final rendezvous being arranged for the station homestead, the rouseabout taking a direct line, and making for the Little Black Billabong on the way.

Smoke was curling out of the homestead, and as they stared in horror, they saw tiny dark human figures running down the pathway under the spathodea trees, carrying torches of dry, grass.

Where are the children that throve and grew In the old homestead in days gone by?

There was no money in his background, no Adams fortune or elegant Adams homestead like the Boston mansion of John Hancock.

For a year or more, until Susanna Adams was remarried to an older Braintree man named John Hall, she continued to live with her son Peter in the family homestead next door, and the two women grew extremely fond of one another.