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coffee-plantation

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  • Set in an unnamed African state, Ms. Denis's "White Material," which has been released in some European cities and opens in the U.K. on July 2 and the Netherlands on July 22, casts 57-year-old Ms. Huppert as a coffee-plantation owner battling to save her land against the backdrop of civil war.

    A Provocative Isabelle Huppert 2010

  • It wasn't in the competition, but perhaps the best documentary of all at Sundance was the Australian "Black Harvest," about a mixed-race coffee-plantation owner, Joe Leahy, in New Guinea.

    The Talent Bazaar 2008

  • After my return to Toego, I endeavoured to find another locality to collect in, and removed to a coffee-plantation some miles to the north, and tried in succession higher and lower stations on the mountain; but, I never succeeded in obtaining insects in any abundance and birds were far less plentiful than on the Megamendong

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • In the distance, the four raised knuckles of the Ngong Hills turned intensely blue in the dusk; Beard's ranch adjoins the land once owned by Isak Dinesen, back when she was a coffee-plantation owner named Karen Blixen, and his view of the Ngong Hills is the same one she described in Out of Africa.

    African Dreamer Bennetts, Leslie 1996

  • We reached near the summit what was called the emperor's coffee-plantation, where we saw coffee-berries in their various stages, and the scaffolds on which the berries were dried before being cleaned.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • Nothing can be more beautiful than a full-grown coffee-plantation: the deep green foliage, the splendid bright-red berry, and the delicious shade afforded by the trees, render those spots altogether fit for princes; and princely lives their owners lead.

    Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

  • Arrangements were accordingly made for us to pass our last day in Matanzas at a coffee-plantation of theirs, some four miles distant from town.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

  • Foremost among them is the _cafetal_, or coffee-plantation, of

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

  • Here the soil was fertile; it will be a fine site for a coffee-plantation when this region is open to settlement.

    IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest 1914

  • England, begin the manufacture of coffee-plantation machinery.

    All About Coffee 1909

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