hill-farm

Hosea's grandfather had plowed and planted by the moon until the day he'd died, and the rocky little hill-farm in Morton's Fork had never failed to feed them.

Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Stewart of Appin, a chief of the tribe so named, was proprietor of a hill-farm in the Braes of

Rob Roy 2005

Hosea's grandfather had plowed and planted by the moon until the day he'd died, and the rocky little hill-farm in Morton's Fork had never failed to feed them.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

He watched her climb to a hill-farm near the river, with shame and agony in his eyes, and I thought he would follow.

Kenny Leona Dalrymple

The boy oversees some fighting among the fowls of the hill-farm, where they still keep the old hawk-colored breed -- a breed that fights to the death -- not being over-partial as yet to Shanghais that won't lay and

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

-- This place, of which no other mention occurs in Scotish History, may be called a hill-farm, situated about a mile to the south of Cupar of Fife, and the highest ground in the parish.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

The boy would like to get the work all finished some time, but on a hill-farm there is no hope of being done save the hope of being done with it entirely.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

Whatever arable land belonged to the hill-farm lay away from the river.

Kenny Leona Dalrymple

There is nothing like a wide horizon to give a boy aspirations -- nothing like a hill-farm to give him hope -- especially the hope of leaving it.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

Whoever was a boy on a hill-farm during the war remembers the neighbors stumbling over the stony roads at twilight, when the day's work was done, to hear the daily paper read at the farmhouse on The Corners, eager to know the worst or the best every night.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various