glebe-land

The archdeacon, who was a very wealthy man, had purchased a property at Plumstead, contiguous to the glebe-land, and had thus come to exercise in the parish the double duty of rector and squire.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

Certainly not Jim Irwin, the possessor of the new kind of "living," with its "glebe-land" and its "schoolmanse."

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

Was not the new kind of rural teacher to be a publicly-paid leader of thought, of culture, of progress, and was he not to have his manse, his glebe-land, and his

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

It was, in point of fact, the teacher's house or schoolmanse for the new consolidated Woodruff District, and the old Simms wood-lot was the glebe-land of the schoolmanse.

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

Jim turned over and over in his mind these new applications of old, historic, significant words, dear to every reader of history -- "glebe-land," "schoolmanse" -- and it seemed to him that they signified the return of many old things lost in Merrie England, lost in

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

A narrow meadow of glebe-land separated the churchyard from the

Brought Home Hesba Stretton 1871

How could a man in his senses give up a living of L400 a year, with a pretty rectory and glebe-land, for a colonial curacy?

Brought Home Hesba Stretton 1871

The archdeacon, who was a very wealthy man, had purchased a property at Plumstead, contiguous to the glebe-land, and had thus come to exercise in the parish the double duty of rector and squire.

The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848

Well, I have a few acres of glebe-land on my own hands, not enough for a bailiff -- too much for my gardener -- and a pretty cottage, which once belonged to a schoolmaster, but we have built him a larger one; it is now vacant, and at your service.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The church rose before them gray and Gothic, backed by the red clouds in which the sun had set, and bordered by the glebe-land of the half-seen parsonage.

Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838