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  • It was the 350-year-old homestead's history that she set about to preserve, turning the long-neglected eight-room Dutch Colonial into an architectural showpiece.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Grave New Widow Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • You were leaving a comment just as I was finishing a post about my ol 'homestead's name.

    Name Your Homeplace Contest ____Maggie 2008

  • In Mandela's small home village of Qunu, about 35 kilometres (20 miles) from the town of Mthatha, in southeastern South Africa, police were turning well-wishers away who arrived at the homestead's gates.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Last night the veterans seized an elderly farm worker, dragged him to the homestead's security fence and assaulted him in front of Kay and a group of his workers, she said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • It was only as he leaped into the midst of the fracas that he caught the briefest possible glimpse of himself, reflected in the water of the small fishpond that marked the farthest reach of the old homestead's formal landscaping.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • She wished she could as easily fix all the homestead's ills, but Parrie was delighted.

    In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • Knows, full well, to save the homestead's all but vain,

    Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

  • The combination of dependably rainless summers, the realities of self-sufficient living, and my homestead's poor well turned out to be an opportunity.

    Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon

  • But the homestead's hour of triumph was at hand, for as the afternoon wore on, Happy Dick found the very best told recital a poor substitute for the real thing, and thirsting for a further "Peter's latest," hissed:

    We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

  • But in the homestead's heart, where'er that opulent palace

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

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