Sentence examples for of a large tract from inspiring English sources

A still more important consequence of the conquest of Messenia, "good to plow and good to hoe" as Tyrtaeus put it, was the acquisition of a large tract of fertile land and the creation of a permanently servile labour force, the "helots," as the conquered Messenians were now called.

Or sticking out of a large tract of sand.

This was part of a large tract in the Amazon forest set aside for Japanese settlement by the Brazilian government.

The garden was situated in front of a five-story building and comprised of a large tract of R. hirta (12 m×1.5 m), a smaller tract of Echinacea purpurrea (5′×2′) behind the R. hirta, and a few Hosta cultivars on the garden edges.

Dwight Garner takes on this situation in his fine review of Annie Proulx's new memoir, "Bird Cloud," which tells the story of Proulx's attempt to build a home on a large tract of land in Wyoming.

One wealthy villager, Chen Wenqing, gained a business interest in Wukan's harbor and a 50-year lease on a large tract of land used as a pig farm.

The first corruption charge relates to a large tract of prime land on the Red Sea coast of the South Sinai area, around Sharm el Sheik.

When Napoleon sought to sell the French territory of Louisiana to the United States in 1802, Jefferson was concerned over the political consequences of acquiring a large tract of what was perceived then as predominantly Southern territory, as well as a possible lack of constitutional authority to make the purchase.

In April, two officers of the West India Company in Fort Orange, Sebastiaen Jansen Krol and Dirk Cornelisz Duyster, specially empowered by writing of January 12 , 1630 purchased a large tract of land on the west side of the North River.

The New Yorker, November 25 , 1967P. 67 PROFILE of the Pine Barrens, a large tract of wilderness in central & southern N.J., and the inhabitants of the place.

But the idea of fencing-in such a large tract of land raises hackles with hikers, who have a legal right to roam across the estate.