ground-plot

The ground-plot descending from those hils or mountaines, grew lesse and lesse by variable degrees, as wee observe at entering into our Theaters, from the highest part to the lowest, succinctly to narrow the circle by order.

The Decameron 2004

Men skilled in architecture might do what we did not attempt: They might probably form an exact ground-plot of this venerable edifice.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

-- Before this second looking over was begun, however, Emma walked into the hall for the sake of a few moments 'free observation of the entrance and ground-plot of the house -- and was hardly there, when Jane Fairfax appeared, coming quickly in from the garden, and with a look of escape.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

With money raised from the spoils of the war, he began to construct a new forum, the ground-plot of which cost him above a hundred millions of sesterces [54].

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The very labourer with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground-plot before the door, the little flower-bed, the woodbine trimmed against the wall, and hanging its blossoms about the windows, and the peasant seen trudging home at nightfall with the avails of the toil of the day upon his back -- all this tells us of the happiness both of rich and poor in this country.

Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met William Wells Brown

I was charmed with the warbling of a great number of birds, which joined their notes to the murmurings of a very high water-work in the middle of a ground-plot enamelled with flowers.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

The figure 1. sheweth the alleyes which both compasse about, and also crosse ouer the ground-plot, and the figure 2. sheweth the foure quarters where the fruit-trées are to be planted.

The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham

With money raised from the spoils of the war, he began to construct a new forum, the ground-plot of which cost him above a hundred millions of sesterces [54].

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

When you haue thus fenc'st in this great square, you shall then cast foure large alleyes, at least fourtéene foote broad, from the wall round about, and so likewise two other alleyes of like breadth, directly crosse ouerthwart the ground-plot, which will deuide the great square into foure lesser squares, according to the figure before set downe.

The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham

Chap.I. 'perfect ground-plot, you' scan is unclear

The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham