Sentence examples for homestead that from inspiring English sources
Usually, one looks on grief-stricken as this most impulsive of heroines, played here by a rather stagy Zoë Wanamaker, is separated from the homestead that is her life.
Todd Rosenthal's enticing design for August: Osage County frames the dire action of a family reunion in a cute Oklahoma homestead that looks like a child's drawing: steep gables, white beams, rooms made for eavesdropping.
"During my first week here, when I called home, I said, 'Dad, I think I'm in a cult.' " The first of the work colleges, Berea, was founded in 1855, in rural Kentucky, on a ten-acre homestead that had been donated to the Reverend John G. Fee by the abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay.
He lives on a homestead that is almost fully sustainable and blogs about his adventures there at timberbuttehomestead.com.
Although the household servant of nine years, Margaret O Brien, had married and left the Homestead that same year, it was not until 1869 that her family brought in a permanent household servant, Margaret Maher, to replace the old one.
It is too far to walk to a homestead that is 2 or 3 kilometres away at the end of the day".
They are mountain dwellers who live in small villages and isolated homesteads that are separated by almost impassable terrain.
Like the lilac, it is a survivor, often marking the site of old homesteads that have almost disappeared.
We too easily forget how simple homesteads that don't look like much are the centre of inhabitants' universes, all too easily eradicated by drones' missiles – be it in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen or elsewhere, as their use spreads.
Eight decades ago, Garry Drummond's father put up three mules as collateral on a $300 bank loan from a rural Alabama bank; those beasts were an active part of the business, hauling coal from mines to the farms and homesteads that became his customers.
Homesteads reported covering up puddles of water in their homesteads that would provide ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes and also clearing bushes around the homesteads that provide cover for adult mosquitoes that emerge from the breeding sites.
