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1. The only thing that fooled us is that most people are poor here, all they have is a little piece of ground and a hut
2. There was hardly a piece of ground out here that didn't have thonga tracks
3. It was more as if she’d finally found a piece of ground to stand on, and was going to stand there
4. "It should mean, more than a piece of ground, more than his stupid pride
5. Accordingly, I dug up a piece of ground as well as I could with my wooden spade, and dividing it into two parts, I sowed my grain; but as I was sowing, it casually occurred to my thoughts that I would not sow it all at first, because I did not know when was the proper time for it, so I sowed about two-thirds of the seed, leaving about a handful of each
6. Finding my first seed did not grow, which I easily imagined was by the drought, I sought for a moister piece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug up a piece of ground near my new bower, and sowed the rest of my seed in February, a little before the vernal equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop; but having part of the seed left only, and not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind
7. They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third
8. A piece of ground which, when he wrote, could not maintain one cow, would in former times, he was assured, have maintained four, each of which would have given four times the quantity of milk which that one was capable of giving
9. Boots stomped over the back of their sacrificial comrade to gain access to the last piece of ground separating them from the fence enclosing Gloria’s house
10. A certain man made a great supper and invited many and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited come over; because all things are ready now and they all with one consent began to make excuses; The first said to him: I have bought a piece of ground and I am in need to go and see it; I beg you to have me excused; and another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them; I beg you to have me excused; and another said: I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come; so that servant came and showed his lord these things; then the master of the house being angry said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the crippled and the blind; and the servant said: Lord it is done as you have commanded and yet there is room; and the lord said to the servant go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in so that my house may be filled; because I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper
11. Frank was staring blankly at a nondescript piece of ground
12. The tiny piece of ground where it had sat was submerged
13. Leaving Lieutenant Dickinson in charge of the waiting machineguns, Ingrid started cautiously walking forward at a crouch just behind the Marine sergeant, who obviously knew this piece of ground well and soon led her close to a shallow foxhole occupied by two Marines, who nervously called out in the night
14. piece of ground that wasn’t covered in gore, looked back at the butchery
15. When they began to make excuse, one had bought a piece of ground—a very common transaction; another had bought a yoke of oxen, and must test them, very natural indeed; another had married a wife
16. There was a large piece of ground, the property of the town, that was a suitable site for the works; so in their character of directors of the Electric Light Coy
17. "Simply, that having ascertained that the piece of ground on which I stand was to let, I made application for it, was readily accepted by the proprietor, and am now master of this fine crop of lucerne
18. Yet still they moved slowly, like climbers on a rock face, first some and then others taking their turn to cross the same piece of ground
19. Therefore, I see not how a corrupt motive ought to have been imputed to me, merely because I had a piece of ground that marched with the spot whereon it was intended to construct the new building; which spot, I should remark, belonged to the town before I bought mine
20. In this way Mr Fegs got a foretaste of what had been concerted for his advantage; and Mr Peevie, in the mean time, through his helpmate, had, in like manner, not been idle; the effect of all which was, that next day, every where in the town, people spoke of Mr Hodden and Mr Fegs as being ordained to be the new councillors, in the stead of the two who had, as it was said, resigned in so unaccountable a manner, so that no candidates offered, and the election was concluded in the most candid and agreeable spirit possible; after which I had neither trouble nor adversary, but went on, in my own prudent way, with the works in hand—the completion of the new bridge, the reparation of the tolbooth steeple, and the bigging of the new schools on the piece of ground adjoining to my own at the Westergate; and in the doing of the latter job I had an opportunity of manifesting my public spirit; for when the scheme, as I have related, was some years before given
21. Hence, if any one species of grass were to go on varying, and the varieties were continually selected which differed from each other in the same manner, though in a very slight degree, as do the distinct species and genera of grasses, a greater number of individual plants of this species, including its modified descendants, would succeed in living on the same piece of ground
22. Most of the animals and plants which live close round any small piece of ground, could live on it (supposing its nature not to be in any way peculiar), and may be said to be striving to the utmost to live there; but, it is seen, that where they come into the closest competition, the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders
23. On the estate of a rich landowner, upon a piece of ground held by him in common with the peasants, a forest had been allowed to grow
