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I arranged to buy this forty-acre property, planning to build.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I arranged to buy this forty-acre property, planning to build.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I arranged to buy this forty-acre property, planning to build.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I arranged to buy this forty-acre property, planning to build.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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“With his hat held aloft on the point of his saber, he galloped over the forty-acre field through a perfect hailstorm of rebel lead and iron with as much impunity as though he had been a ghost.”
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Shery, her husband Jim Galbreath, and Emma moved from Cherry Hills to a forty-acre parcel in the horse country of Parker and built a world-class equine facility in order to expand the dream.
Tracy Shaffer: Taking Life By the Reins: The Gift and Giver, Part II 2010
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Shery, her husband Jim Galbreath, and Emma moved from Cherry Hills to a forty-acre parcel in the horse country of Parker and built a world-class equine facility in order to expand the dream.
Tracy Shaffer: Taking Life By the Reins: The Gift and Giver, Part II 2010
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He always kept a forty-acre plot of land for “Mother while she lives.”
God’s Guest List Debbie Macomber 2010
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A year later the forty-acre facility was sold for $750,000.
Lester Sloan: The Old Packard Plant: From the Detroit Stories 2009
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Rep. Nicely says that "they think that earthquake got that forty-acre pond, fifty-five feet deep of this sludge just got it a-quivering."
Dave Cooper: Tennessee Rep: Earthquake Caused TVA Disaster 2009
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