new-land

“He noted the lizards slipping through the stones; he saw where the wheel of a wagon had crushed some wild flower-growth; he heard the far call of a milkmaid to the cattle; he caught the sweet breath of decaying verdure, and through all, the fresh, biting air of the new-land autumn, pleasantly stinging his face.”

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“Sometimes we came upon small clearings, where tired-looking men were grubbing new-land for tobacco, and I remember that a half-grown boy, with a sullen look, threw a chunk at us and viciously shouted that if we would stop a minute he would whip both of us.”

The Jucklins A Novel

“All this new land had been proved to be exceedingly prolific of wheat, the great new-land crop.”

The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West