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  • The economic dominance of the "Home" Counties note the extraordinary chauvinistic arrogance in their name for their favourite political and economic pasture-land! has been a self-fulfilling prophecy for many centuries.

    100 days in, Mr Miliband, you need a plan | Observer editorial 2011

  • A black domain of wild pasture-land surrounded their new residence, and formed the remains of their property.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Two weeks with no well no pasture-land, all the birds of the air

    Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008

  • As Raphael reached it, he noticed several cows grazing in the pasture-land; and when he had taken a few steps towards the water, he saw a little house built of granite and roofed with shingle in the spot where the meadowland was at its widest.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • Creepers covered the walls and the verandahs, and crawled in at the windows, making the house look like a nest; it was surrounded by a pretty flower garden and shrubberies, and the pasture-land had the appearance of a small park.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • He has a large herd of cattle, and a tract of fine pasture-land on the beautiful stream Lekone.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • The tsetse inhabits the trees which bound the pasture-land on the west; so, should the herdsman forget his duty, the cattle straying might be entirely lost.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • They found the gourbi and the adjacent building quite uninjured by the severity of the winter; numbers of little rivulets intersected the pasture-land; new plants were springing up under the influence of the equatorial sun, and the luxuriant foliage was tenanted by the birds which had flown back from the volcano.

    Off on a Comet 2003

  • These massy hedgerows cutting up the good pasture-land into chequerboard squares! — after the thready rail-and-post fences that offered no hindrance to the eye.

    The Way Home 2003

  • Though he grudged the fodder when they could no longer graze on the pasture-land, at least he was free from anxiety about them.

    What Men Live By, and other tales 2003

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