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  • But there was a home-farm attached to the place, which also now belonged to Lady

    The Claverings 2005

  • The home-farm buildings could be seen, but not the Grange, for, situate on the lowly level dear to ancestors, it was wrapped from the sight in trees.

    Over the River 2004

  • “The larger and better part of the estates, including this house and grounds, and the home-farm.”

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • He paid over to his father the rents from Folking, but he had the house and home-farm for nothing.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Preference for one with home-farm immediately adjacent.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 Various

  • Randal continued to make himself thus agreeable, until the Squire, persuaded that his young kinsman was a first-rate agriculturist, insisted upon carrying him off to the home-farm, and Harry turned towards the house to order Randal's room to be got ready: "For," said

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • So I tripped down the back staircase and away to the stables with a bit of sugar for Brilliant, who had arrived safely by the train in company with White Stockings, and on through the kitchen-garden and the home-farm up to the free, fresh, breezy down.

    Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

  • I was only a girl of ten when my father and his servants had a skirmish with a party of them, near our home-farm -- so near, indeed, that some of the windows of the house were broken by the bullets, and three of the Highland raiders were killed.

    Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

  • Currywongoan, at Greenmount, and at the home-farm at Dowris.

    Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

  • The "manor" consisted of the "demesne," which was the lord's home-farm, attached to his dwelling, and the villagers 'land, which was held by the villeins for their own use, on the condition of the cultivation of their lord's ground.

    Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

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