How To Use Homestead In A Sentence

  • But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
  • No one could have asked for a better final lap over the 1. 527-mile oval at Homestead, Fla.
  • a "nester," or "truck farmer," who was likely to fence in the river somewhere and homestead some land. The Eagle's Heart
  • What attachments to the homestead shall thus inweave themselves about the hearts of those whose interests and life are cast with it -- and still more, of those who go forth from it, by taste, inclination, or bias, into the more bustling centres of competition and trade! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • One of these was built at Edeowie, some distance from the station homestead.
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  • Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life.
  • homesteader" (web master) could build their website. Word Around the Net
  • [*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson. The Woman in White
  • But my ultimate taste of weed ‘management’ was homesteading on the forested slopes of the Big Island of Hawaii.
  • If at times the voice of the song is plaintive, that is no more than a reflection of broken homesteads and sweltering emigrant ships. The Irish Mind
  • My sea kayak circumnavigation of Ireland stalled here for several weeks and I spent many evenings with a borrowed guitar banging out old tunes. • dickmacks.homestead.comDoolin is jumping off point for ferries out to the Aran Islands but it's long been known that there's as good or better traditional music here than on the mainland. Ireland: the 10 best pubs on the coast
  • With only one room at our disposal it would seem to the uninitiated that the accommodation of the homestead must have been strained to bursting point; but "out-bush" every man carries a "bluey" and a mosquito net in his swag, and as the hosts slept under the verandah, and the guests on the garden paths, or in their camps among the forest trees, spare rooms would only have been superfluous. We of the Never-Never
  • Author Roy Rob and his wife, Jaki, used the age-old technique of cordwood masonry to construct the main living quarters and outbuildings on their homestead in West Chazy, New York.
  • In such a state, Greeley said in his influential editorials, a 160-acre homestead could produce an ample living.
  • The situation in south-west England is broadly comparable to southern Scotland, with rounds (small enclosed homesteads), courtyard houses, and souterrains present, though only one villa has been recognized west of Exeter.
  • The legislation, however, does not place a flat cap on the value of the homestead exemption that an individual can exempt in bankruptcy.
  • He feared that homestead legislation would expropriate land he needed for his college bill.
  • Finally, good fortune is smiling upon the down-but-never-beaten Evans family as they excitedly prepare themselves to move from their hovel of a high-rise homestead and relocate in Mississippi.
  • Under the 1868 treaty Indians were permitted to claim 160-acre homesteads on public lands.
  • When my wife, Nancy, and I started planning our dream homestead in 1998, our first thought was that our house needed to be far more than a shelter.
  • At times we are forced to go and beg for food from nearby homesteads.
  • Caissene said nothing in our two interviews about European-made iron hoes replacing or supplementing Vecha hoes as bridewealth, although Patrick Harries has written that, in the 1860s and 1870s, imported imitations were flooding southern Mozambique and playing a critical role in the mounting struggle, between young wage-earning men and chiefs/homestead heads, over access to bridewealth and marriage. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • I've read lots of books and magazines about self sufficiency and homesteading and your magazine has always been my favorite guide and reference.
  • They were to live at the Bluff homestead, a cob house built in 1860 of clay and chopped tussock.
  • This favored stop in Homestead is one man's kitschy do-it-yourself testament to lost love: Latvian immigrant Ed Leedskalnin dug up over 2.2 million tons of coral rock to build this mock castle.
  • Whether it's an abandoned junkyard, the homestead of a strange couple, a society of dregs, even the Dunn property itself, each locale adds a new bit of depth to the story and tactility to the atmosphere.
  • There are also remains of old castles and medieval fortifications and magnificent examples of rural homesteads.
  • People use the "family budget" analogy because we're supposed to respect the image of a thrifty, self-disciplined homestead. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't a Family -- It's a Country.
  • The raintrees provided a cover of dappled sunlight for guests as they quaffed jam and scones with a cup of tea served in pannikins by women in pinafores and lace caps, all in aid of the 125th anniversary of the Territory's first homestead.
  • The name mulberry is used for Moms alba L. an exotic plant in the same family introduced from Asia and now widely planted in homesteads and in cropland Chapter 7
  • My guess is that alligators and water moccasins outnumber race fans in the Homestead area, which is south of Miami.
  • Cllr Gerry Coyle told the Western People that a number of Belmullet natives have returned home to build a new house or restore the old homestead.
  • The Meneghan homestead had been the family base for more than 50 years.
  •   I parked my car on the asphalted roadside preferring to walk the final two miles to the abandoned homestead. Ambrosia
  • The story seemed to be all over the place, on cattle ranches and in mining camps, at military posts and isolated homesteads.
  • The raintrees provided a cover of dappled sunlight for guests as they quaffed jam and scones with a cup of tea served in pannikins by women in pinafores and lace caps, all in aid of the 125th anniversary of the Territory's first homestead.
  • Gunnar made men bear down the wares of his brother and himself to the ship, and when all Gunnar's baggage had come down, and the ship was all but "boun," then Gunnar rides to Bergthorsknoll, and to other homesteads to see men, and thanked them all for the help they had given him. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
  • Meuse and some thirty homesteads, belonged to the lords of Bourlémont and was in the domain of the castellany of Grondrecourt, held in fief from the crown of France. The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
  • Trees that towered over prairie rivers were transformed into pirogues (hand-hewn canoes for trappers and traders), stockades for early military forts, and vigas or ceiling beams for adobe homesteads.
  • Still, the churchward road lay in the direction of many of the homesteads and she saw herself mentally proceeding there, resplendent. Arabella
  • The forest provided a large amount of timber for station buildings, fences, homesteads, shearing sheds, cottages, and mines such as the Charlton, Moonta, Wallaroo and the Burra.
  • Stilt houses are unique to the Tonga people, and hill homesteads are found in the Zambezi River flood plains.
  • Another way to legally "disinvest" in the System and reinvest in the homesteads of Christendom. A Distributism How To
  • The Homestead's prandial adventures cannot be ignored.
  • As soon as a covered wagon halted at a new homestead, the head of the family took out his spade.
  • Had he been born fifty years later, Andrew Carnegie, the poor Scotch boy, might have risen to be president of his union, or of a federation of unions; but that he would never have become the builder of Homestead and the founder of multitudinous libraries, is as certain as it is certain that some other man would have developed the steel industry had Andrew Carnegie never been born. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
  • At the back of the old homestead a large shed was the former Taranaki Herald building, the first newspaper in New Plymouth.
  • In 2001, Zuma began construction on a modest homestead there, on top of a ridge near Nkandla. Jacob’s Ladder
  • In the county of Aberdeen, in particular, every homestead had its reservoir of "Graith," [53] and the "Lit-pig," [54] which stood by every fireside, was as familiar an article of furniture in the cots of the peasantry, as the "cuttie-stool," or the "meal girnel. 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, o
  • Strong markets for crops and livestock attracted hundreds of farmers and homesteading boomed, particularly between 1911 and 1917.
  • In these books, Micheaux brings to the Great Plains the ideals of homesteading as cemented in the Homestead Act of 1862.
  • Homesteaders usually came from districts not far removed from frontier conditions. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • But now to come here and drive for a team that is as big as it is with the Rahal-Letterman and to get not only their first pole for them at Homestead, it was my first pole, and now it's all of our first poles here again at Indy.
  • After the funeral and the graveside service on the old Fisher homestead, where Peggy had lived forty-some years of her life, some kind soul carted her photos back to the house where family and friends had gathered to offer their condolences and to eat the food the church ladies had prepared. A Light at Winter’s End
  • It is a small homestead in the middle of farmlands and shrub jungle.
  • The restaurant takes its name from a local saloon of the early 1900s, when Winthrop was a thriving frontier town serving trappers, prospectors, and homesteaders.
  • Even to an Irishman used to castles and mansions, this Australian homestead was imposing. THE THORN BIRDS
  • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. X. Essays. The Poet. 1844
  • In a wash below the homesteads is a tool making site… discarded flints of granite, quartz and calcrete ornament the bare sandy soil.
  • In fact, Micheaux's homesteading in South Dakota in 1905 was relatively late in the history of African-American settlement west of the Mississippi River.
  • She recalled his shrinking from the boys, and his hasty refusal to go to the homestead. A Little Bush Maid
  • It provided shelter for the family while the larger homestead was being built.
  • Stoddart first settled on the Terrace Station on the Rakaia River in Canterbury where the homestead sited below the top of the terrace was said to be one of the windiest places in Canterbury.
  • The farmer, a prominent opposition supporter, fled his Marondera homestead when youths attacked his car with clubs and iron bars and tried to deflate the tyres on Friday.
  • It was taken to Ilam to pump water for domestic supply from an artesian bore near the water wheel to a water tank on a tower beside the homestead.
  • Sitting across the street from the train depot in Billings is a reminder of the promise of Montana homesteading and the living that some hardy families continue to carve between the buttes.
  • She was not alone in deferring to Nkotassane's ceramic expertise, for her mother regularly had women from neighboring homesteads dropping in to watch her work and to seek her advice. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • Eventually we reach our actual destination, a field where a group of 12 women are carrying baskets filled with earth and mud from the edge of a field to a destroyed homestead where a family is using the mud to rebuild the foundation - the "plinth" - of their home. Nicholas D. Kristof
  • That always used to be one of the major delights of the Kenworthy homestead, when they were lucky enough to have Daddy home. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • This 19th-century sawmill, built by Swiss immigrant John Sutter to mill lumber for American homesteaders, became the serendipitous point of origin for the California Gold Rush when a chunk of gold was discovered in its tailrace.
  • In the center of the homestead is an unroofed, fenced cattle pen, the sibaya, from which women are barred.
  • Such equipment actually exists in many bush farm homesteads.
  • He was a homesteader on the western prairies. Times, Sunday Times
  • In Oakland , where backyard menageries and D. I. Y. charcuterie are the new garage band, the term "urban homesteading" doesn't need an explanation.
  • Peggy experienced homesteading first-hand after her family moved from Great Falls to a claim near Sand Coulee when she was about six.
  • Now that there are no shingles or vacations to deter us, we'll be a'fixin' up the ole homestead. June 2004
  • That Saturday night, people flocked to the Mourie homestead to celebrate Graham's selection.
  • States during the War of the Rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom, as shown by a statement of such service herewith, and that I have remained loyal to the Government; that I have not perfected a homestead entry for 160 acres of land under any law except what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law contained in section A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland
  • Whereas Wister staunchly believed in the boundless opportunities for individual fortune in the West, Micheaux's attempts at homesteading proved otherwise for him.
  • Precolonial multiple dwelling homesteads, which still exist in rural areas, tended to group lineage clusters or extended families in a semicircular grouping of round or oval one-room dwellings.
  • Jay Hammond, who in the last two years of his term spent six weeks a year at his remote Lake Clark homestead, according to his former chief of staff, Jerry Reinwand. Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News
  • Now Homestead are just another indie label and no-one cares.
  • As homesteaders, so many of our daily activities lead to the out-of-doors, and therefore keeps us connected to nature and all her changing faces.
  • Chloe looked up in shock as she heard an angry bellow echo through the huge homestead.
  • An old Sourdough friend of mine who homesteaded north of Talkeetna, shot a lot of moose with a .303 British, or whatever he happend to have with him at the time, 308Win, 8mm-06, shotgun with slugs. I know I have said that I would. Has anybody shot a moose or an elk with a 270 win? 150 grain bullets.
  • On the inside of the curve, I wove in irregular lines of flowers like Verbena ‘Purple Homestead,’ aster and veronica.
  • What the fuss about is the fact that, having gone out there to be a jackaroo, we're told, which is -- well, I'm not quite sure what a jackaroo is -- I don't know if you know, Larry -- but working on a ranch or a homestead in Australia. CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2003
  • The homesteader was a young man who was beginning to look old without going through a middle age. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • In fact, they are slowly decaying Western ghost towns, relics of 19th-century homesteaders and gold seekers who abandoned them decades ago.
  • When the University of Canterbury moved from its town site to Ilam, west of the city, the site was farmland with the homestead on it known as Okeover.
  • The river I had been sure was there, by photomaps from space, was far below us, and we still had to go down, down, down, and follow it a long way before we would reach the place where the gorge opened out into valley suitable for homesteading. Time Enough For Love
  • Confining our conversation to firearms, the most common working gun of the farmer or homesteader in the late 19th century was the double-barreled shotgun.
  • His homestead bungalow of bedlam becomes more of a fixer-upper as the years stroll by.
  • Male black bears have remarkable homing instincts as well and have traveled great distances, some up to 400 miles, to return to their homestead.
  • A steady stream of miners also clambered over the narrow pass and up this gorgeous valley to the mining camps near Cooke City and Silver Gate, and self-sufficient homesteaders called the compositionally perfect basin with its steep ridges and fins and buttes, home. Canada Free Press
  • Further inquiry made it apparent that the real enemy of these birds was the feralized domestic cat which has gone wild from the households, especially from the many homesteads that have been abandoned. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization
  • Thousands of these historic remnants litter national forests and wilderness areas, relics of homesteads or mining claims that predate the protected entity.
  • The homesteader needed a small filing fee, and a much larger amount of cash to survive until the farm got going.
  • Throughout Bantu history, there is every reason to suppose that food preparation was the undertaking of women within homestead environs. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
  • Additionally, his support of the Homestead Act and the Morrill Land Grant College Act made it easier for farmers to obtain land and further their agricultural tinning.
  • The 'table d'hote' meal eaten, the next feature of Mrs. Dott's program was the visit to the Aunt Lavinia homestead. Cap'n Dan's Daughter
  • There was an entire homestead, with home, barns and other outbuildings, complete with a windmill, falling to the ground, evidently worth nothing.
  • ANC president Jacob Zuma married his fourth wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli of KwaMaphumulo at his homestead at Nkandla, in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The Bureau of Reclamation had converted parts of the lakebeds into homesteads, many for World War I and World War II veterans.
  • For anyone even thinking of homesteading, Gene Logsdon's books should be required reading.
  • This last label was consistent with the habit, in casual conversation, of calling a married woman (who formally keeps her own xivongo) by her husband's family name, a gesture of respect acknowledging her fulfillment of the social obligation to marry and the transfer of her place-identity from birth to affinal homestead according to the rules of virilocal marriage. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • He was born on the family homestead in the front downstairs bedroom of the farmhouse.
  • They sat on the splintery wooden floor of their homestead and wailed. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
  • Thirty years ago, or in 1877, 845 homestead - entries were made, aggregating 135,200 acres (a homestead is 160 acres), but 54 per cent. of the entries were subsequently cancelled, the duties required under the Homestead Act not having been complied with, and the land reverted to the Government. Development of the Canadian West
  • The latter is distinctively the "custom of Kent," and signifies that the land was "partible," and inherited by the sons in equal shares, the youngest son retaining the homestead, and making compensation to his brethren for this addition to his share. The Customs of Old England
  • It sits on the front of a hill facing a dirt road, with another dirt road branching off and running uphill on the house's left and off to more remote homesteads.
  • Those who decided to stay in the East could select homesteads on former tribal land.
  • In 1901 a new homestead had been built of kauri and lined with macrocarpa.
  • Appearing in April, "American Letters: 1927-1947" Polity, 252 pages, $25 , a collection of the Pollock family correspondence, bears witness to the hardscrabble reality of the artist's upbringing amid boxcars and barren homesteads—the incubator of his creative vision. A Painter in Her Own Right
  • Someday our little five-acre homestead, currently surrounded by forests and hayfields, will be another victim of sprawl.
  • SPEARED FISH: An anhinga, a fresh-water bird that dives for its food, speared a small fish in Everglades National Park near Homestead, Fla., Pictures of the Day: July 1
  • To the latest hour of his life he cherishes the idea of returning to some homestead by a tumbling burnie. The Englishwoman in America
  • Johannesburg, his homestead in Nkandla and his offices, Hulley's office, and the home and offices of Moynot at 6. 30am on the day of the search and seizure. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Every homesteader who had a tug that would fasten over a doubletree, a wagon that could still squeak, or a flivver that had a bolt in it, went into the transportation business -- hauling the seekers from Pierre or from McClure to look at the land. Land of the Burnt Thigh
  • Svensholm is a small Viking homestead, comprising a large hall and a few outbuildings.
  • It was here they built their homestead of local stone and limestone carted in from further out on the run.
  • Salmon patties sat casually in their Pyrex homestead, just challenging you not to wolf them down as accompaniment.
  • On the afternoon they were due home we had all found jobs to do around the homestead.
  • A typical homestead includes a main house with several related structures for various functions.
  • Though nothing remains of the Batten homestead, he can show you the flagstone which probably lay at the front door.
  • Soon your typical homestead shall be exchanged for your antitypical home; and we shall unite in the home-song of everlasting joy, -- the song of, "unto Him that loved us and washed us in His own blood, to Him be praise and glory and dominion forever! The Christian Home
  • Once when I was rhapsodizing about the joys of the simpler life, a woman friend who had homesteaded for several years without electricity said, I will never go back to living without a washing machine. Archive 2009-03-01
  • There was melancholy, high and stately, such as Lucretius knew, when he went lonely among the homesteads or along the shore; but it was too exalted to be one with diffidence, for he who will hold the sum of things in his thoughts walks on clouds above the heads of men, free of all misgiving. Apologia Diffidentis
  • Will they have to cede to the demands of the Dervaes Family to stop using the term "urban homestead? Boing Boing
  • One of a slew of DIY gardening currents, such as permaculture (design of highly sustainable ecosystems), urban homesteading, composting and free fruit movement, guerrilla gardening is a response to dwindling green space, limited land and suspicions about food sources, say experts. Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area « Isegoria
  • Just as homesteading was an economic decision so was leaving - they would be better off returning than staying.
  • These are what I called "homestead crafts" because they were similar to things we did in homestead days. Another Box
  • In the villages, a family's homestead reflects wealth through the number of structures, particularly if those structures include granaries, which hold a family's maize harvest.
  • In 1920 Mungerannie homestead was washed away by flood waters more than a metre high.
  • William employed several men as shepherds who lived in cottages with their wives near the homestead.
  • When Jay Lehman first opened his Kidron, Ohio, store, he chose inventory catering to Amish needs: wood and gas stoves, pre-electric lights and homesteading tools. A Wired Rush On An Unplugged World
  • The key points are the following: the new homestead consists of a farm, and a farmhouse, in poor order, in a particularly bleak and nasty corner of northern Scotland.
  • All agreed that "you couldn't beat cold boiled duck by much"; but in the morning grilled fish was accepted as "just the thing for breakfast"; then finding ourselves face to face with Lot's wife, and not too much of that, we beat a hasty retreat to the homestead; a further opportune "catch" of duck giving us heart for further brumby encounters and another night's camp out-bush. We of the Never-Never
  • The agile flea is another "homesteader," and if marked, its favorite resting-place on a dog or cat can easily be determined. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
  • They lunched at Lanzerac, a three hundred-year-old homestead converted into an hotel. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • Mr Holt has bad memories of the drought years of the sixties when hundreds of kangaroos were dropping dead around the homestead and the station bores.
  • This unpretentious log house had been the first home of Mr. and Mrs. Steadman, and was part of the "improvements" specified by the Government to show that a homestead is entered in good faith. The Second Chance
  • Her early years were spent at the family homestead, where she did dressmaking, and the latter part of her youth was spent in England.
  • Fewer women are being chased from their homestead and land when widowed.
  • The Rogers' homestead erupted into a gigantic, exploding fireball.
  • In her poetry, this is apparent in the representation of prairie homesteaders as cultivators and, by extension, civilizers of an untamed western wilderness.
  • On their sprawling homesteads and in their citified saloons, each well-armed Pallatian cultivates a folksy accent and tinkers with quaintly Victorian machinery.
  • There's 103-year-old Roy Larkin Stamper, who remembers homesteading in Indian Territory and confides to Ellis his deep desire to remarry.
  • By 1851, he had hundreds of hives set up near his Coolangatta homestead, and had them supervised and operated by a young Aboriginal beekeeper.
  • The artworks feature Australian scenes such as old homesteads or seascapes.
  • Punjabi farmer — a Kamboh from Jullundur-way who had appealed in vain to every God of his homestead to cure his small son, and was trying Benares as a last resort. Kim
  • combe" -- and at the mouth of this, well sheltered on three sides from the north, the east, and north-eastern winds, stood the homestead. The Toilers of the Field
  • The old homestead is out in the true, deep, godforsaken boonies, because it takes all day to get there by truck; and most of the driving day is spent rumbling along on unpaved roads. The Abandoned
  • I later found out this was called 'squatting,' and it had been done successfully by other very low-income families and later transformed through several forms of resistance into something called 'homesteading.' Steve Heilig: Poverty: The Most Common Crime?
  • The bomas are constructed to look like typical Maasai homesteads.
  • Those who decided to stay in the East could select homesteads on former tribal land.
  • Originally homesteaded in the late 1800's, the Flying Dog features nine bedrooms and seven bathrooms on 245 acres. Flying Dog Ranch On The Market For $46 Million (PHOTOS)
  • I call it homestead because we used every available box and piece of cardboard from everything that came into the house, to make things with, when we were growing up on the homestead. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Cowboys rarely, if ever, ate pasta and Italy's history, while rich and storied, is bereft of tales of cattle rustlers, gunslingers and homesteaders circling the wagons.
  • In rural areas, patrilocal residence traditionally was the norm, and a homestead would include the headman, his wives, unmarried siblings, and married sons with their wives and children.
  • All the other men made it back to Drogheda homestead ahead of the storm, turned their mounts into the stockyard and headed for either the big house or the jackaroo barracks. The Thorn Birds
  • Beyond Dunoon - the macadamia capital of Australia - unfolds a rolling dairy country of tin-roofed homesteads surrounded by dusty purple mountains.
  • As he did the drop the wings of his aircraft clipped the tops of trees surrounding the homestead and the plane crashed headlong into the ground.
  • Soon the trees cleared, and I looked upon a great homestead; there was the quaint New England house, white with black shutters and trim.
  • There, on a bend of the stream, at the junction of the River Nanay, which is here about five hundred feet across, there had been established for many years this farm, homestead, or, to use the expression of the country, _ "fazenda," _ then in the height of its prosperity. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
  • Lands imperial armies had conquered, cossacks homesteaded, Bolshevik engineers industrialized, Red Army troops defended—all signed away, with a few strokes of a borrowed pen. The Return
  • States homesteads on confiscated or forfeited estates in insurrectionary districts. Foreign and Colonial News
  • Critics such as blogger Crunchy Chicken claim that this trademark is unenforceable, since the term "urban homestead" has been in use since at least the 1970s. Boing Boing
  • The Act of 1862 provided homesteads of 160 acres free of charge.
  • The U.S. federal government offered 160 acres of land for homesteaders on the harsh fringe of the American breadbasket, where blizzards rule the winter and drought haunts the summer.
  • Some of this land was sold or given away as "homesteads," and then it became AGER PRIVÁTUS, or _private land_. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
  • And in the country the single stately elm rising gracefully and benignantly over the wayside cottage, year after year like a guardian angel sending down its blessings of shade, moisture and coolness in times of drought, and shelter from the pitiless storm, recalls the tenderest associations of generation after generation that go from the old homestead. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
  • It is now 12 days since I applied to shift some sheep back to my homestead that are separated from the main farm by two fields.
  • Between the homestead and the mill, Rutherford constructed huts for the workers, a cookhouse and a dining room which doubled as a hall, complete with library and piano.
  • For the urban homesteader (and the backyard recycler) home brewing is quite the scavenge-and celebrate hobby. Jenna Woginrich: Green Beer: Homebrewing
  • Meanwhile, the government instituted a program of villagization in the countryside, forcing peasant farmers to leave their isolated homesteads to live together in small overcrowded villages.
  • And I couldn't bear the thought that I had lost the family homestead. ICED
  • For the urban homesteader (and the backyard recycler) home brewing is quite the scavenge-and celebrate hobby. Jenna Woginrich: Green Beer: Homebrewing
  • Almost as interesting as the variety of birds were the rambling mud homesteads of the local Farafara tribespeople with their conical grain storage outbuildings and pottery-making kilns.
  • Pastoralists sold sheep and cattle for meat and leather to the goldfields, and used the profits to buy freehold land and build fences and homesteads.
  • The lodge, an old homestead that the Garland family has been running as an inn since 1972, sits along the banks of Oak Creek.
  • Lk .11:21 When the strong man , fully armed, guards his own homestead , his possessions are in peace.
  • I don't believe I truly understood that I could relax until I saw the grand white building of the Randolph family homestead through the budding trees ahead of me.
  • For perennials, try coreopsis, gaillardia, gentian sage, ‘Homestead Purple’ verbena, penstemon, rudbeckia, Russian sage, statice, salvia, summer phlox, and ‘Victoria’ mealy-cup sage.
  • He would often recall with affection the stone walls he built around the family homestead.
  • Marlett puts these colonies and their leaders in historical context and in the larger framework of Depression era homesteading encouraged by federal funds.
  • Willy has decided to send Mally and the bairns away from the farm, while he will sharpen his old "lea" (scythe) and remain behind to defend his homestead. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
  • The Dervaes assert that they are protecting a legitimate business interest, and that their trademark of the term "urban homesteading" prevents corporations from doing the same thing. Boing Boing
  • The homestead museum sits secluded among the bloodwoods, nutwoods and cabbage gums.
  • Last Easter, it was party time at the homestead on Tanumbirini Station.
  • The headman invited a witchdoctor to cleanse his homestead and fortify him against evil forces.
  • Station homesteads were thus widely scattered and invariably placed alongside the most abundant and reliable water sources.
  • We also intend to turn nine of the farm homesteads into self-catering accommodation, which should be ready well before this year's December holiday season.
  • It is a small homestead in the middle of farmlands and shrub jungle.
  • It was said to have a similar appearance to the original homestead, except that it was built in brick.
  • Urban homesteading, as it is called, is a sort of survivalism for hipsters. Putting the Park in Park Avenue
  • The new young homesteaders had a real interest in revitalizing agriculture.
  • The Brooklands homestead can be seen on the skyline.
  • The programs are often called homestead exemptions. Government Computer News Current Issue
  • History teaches us that silence is rarely an effective response to bigotry," said Rabbi Robert Loewy of Congregation Gates of Prayer in Metairie as he delivered the statement of purpose for the interfaith ceremony staged on the Smiths 'lawn at the corner of Homestead Avenue and Live Oak Street. Your Right Hand Thief

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