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  • There are very good grass-fields and corn-lands about it, well dressed.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Thus it appears that this great basin extends through so many degrees of latitude that its lakes and streams connect with the mineral regions and pine forests of the North, the wheat - and corn-lands and cattle-ranges of the Middle States, and the cotton-and sugar-plantations of the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

  • But when the corn-lands had no more grain and all the Romans had come into an exceedingly evil plight, they surrounded Belisarius and tried to compel him to stake everything on a single battle with the enemy, promising that not one of the Romans would be absent from the engagement.

    Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

  • Valinco, and rich in corn-lands, olive, and fruit trees.

    Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

  • Washington, one edge of the estate reaches down a steep, wooded bank to dip into the water, while, stretching back, it rambles on in grassy meadows and old stubble-fields to the corn-lands and orchards of the adjoining plantations.

    Washington's Birthday Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

  • Reports from the corn-lands had not been good, and there had been two or three railway statements which had been expected to be much better than they were.

    The Woman in Black 1915

  • As she climbed the low rail fence which divided the corn-lands from the highway, she met the old family carriage from Jordan's Journey returning with the two ladies on the rear seat.

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

  • The corn-lands of England, however, are better cultivated than those of France, and the corn-lands of France are said to be much better cultivated than those of Poland.

    I. Book I. Of the Division of Labour 1909

  • As she climbed the low rail fence which divided the corn-lands from the highway, she met the old family carriage from Jordan's Journey returning with the two ladies on the rear seat.

    The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • I have burned, I have slain in battle, I have pillaged towns and devastated corn-lands.

    Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell 1907

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