olive-yard

So, also, he supposes an olive-yard let out upon such kind of conditions.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The girl was not there; but by the gate into the olive-yard, where there was a lean-to shed for tools, they found her sitting on a cask, whittling a piece of wood and talking to a curly-headed little contadino.

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

It is said that in the division of some property which fell to the family after he became emperor, his share was an olive-yard in the environs of Ajaccio.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

You jump over them just as you jump into a peasant's olive-yard in the Apennines, and he is glad to see you.

A Room with a View 1924

Moreover, the methods of warfare had undergone great improvement; in most branches of the army the trained skill of the professional soldier was really necessary; and it was not possible to leave the olive-yard or the counting-house and become an efficient fighter without more ado.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

Oil-press, the name of an olive-yard at the foot of the Mount of

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

As Flaxman, tramping up behind his carriage climbed the long hill to El Biar, he saw the whole marvellous place in a white light of beauty -- the bay, the city, the mountains, olive-yard and orange-grove, drawn in pale tints on luminous air.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

Close adjoining, if you are in the south, an olive-yard, if in the north, a swarded apple-orchard reaching to the stream, completes your miniature domain; but this is perhaps best entered through a door in the high fruit-wall; so that you close the door behind you on your sunny plots, your hedges and evergreen jungle, when you go down to watch the apples falling in the pool.

Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The girl was not there, but by the gate into the olive-yard, where there was a lean-to shed for tools, they found her sitting on a cask, whittling a piece of wood and talking to a curly-headed little contadino.

Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) James Payn 1864

In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive-yard.

The Holy Bible: Webster's Bible Anonymous 1833