Sentence examples for plantation from from inspiring English sources

His dream to expand his plantation from two acres to six acres have been dashed.

Julia Peterkin (1880 1961), one of the first to describe the plantation from an African American perspective, won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

She lived in a stone house surrounded by woods and a coffee plantation from 1917-31, an experience that inspired the novel Out of Africa.

They admire his gentlemanly manners and good looks, his hard and innovative work raising a sugar plantation from land that was little more than a mound of shells.

She was at the centre of another exploration of colonialism's effects in White Material (2009), in which she portrayed a French farmer defending her coffee plantation from rebels in an unnamed African country.

On that day in Mr. Moles's truck, I passed fallow hayfields, cutting into the plantation from its southern corner to rattle through fields where an apiarist had established a little metropolis of white-painted hives.

Last year, it bought 1,700 hectares of degraded cocoa plantations from the government.

The conflict here goes back to the early 1990s, when wealthy landowners bought up plantations from farmer cooperatives.

After the capture of Vicksburg, the Marine Brigade stayed busy in northeast Louisiana protecting leased plantations from marauding Confederate cavalry and guerrillas.

It was a trip from cash grains to banana plantations, from the dusty plains east of Antalya to roads that wound through the foothills of the Tarsus Mountains.

Tesco, for example, has committed to buying all of the bananas produced by just under half of the plantations from which it sources.