Five Acres Too Much: A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as Involved in Amateur Farming, with Much Valuable Advice and Instruction to Those about Purchasing Large Or Small Places in the Rural Districts. C By Robert B. Roosevelt ... |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 23
Page 62
... eye speaks the enjoyment of a joke - twinkles with fun , as we say ; conveys an inti- mation of anger , or expresses scorn of an underhand action or watchfulness against it . Who ever got the better of a pig by fair means ? Chase him ...
... eye speaks the enjoyment of a joke - twinkles with fun , as we say ; conveys an inti- mation of anger , or expresses scorn of an underhand action or watchfulness against it . Who ever got the better of a pig by fair means ? Chase him ...
Page 67
... eyes , the crimson stains upon her white fore- head telling her fate , stiff , and stark , and cold , lay all that he held dearest in this world . Her lips would never again whisper words of love ; her heart had ceased to feel that ...
... eyes , the crimson stains upon her white fore- head telling her fate , stiff , and stark , and cold , lay all that he held dearest in this world . Her lips would never again whisper words of love ; her heart had ceased to feel that ...
Page 100
... eyes on it in a dazed sort of way , and then blurted out , " You have twice as much walk as you have bed . ” " Not quite - not quite , " I responded ; " but still that is quite a feature ; they will be attractive , cov- ered with white ...
... eyes on it in a dazed sort of way , and then blurted out , " You have twice as much walk as you have bed . ” " Not quite - not quite , " I responded ; " but still that is quite a feature ; they will be attractive , cov- ered with white ...
Page 105
... eyes , announced that the cows had grazed off all the peas . Any animal that entered that plot of ground ap- peared instinctively to know where the garden was , although better - endowed creatures might have trouble to find it , and ...
... eyes , announced that the cows had grazed off all the peas . Any animal that entered that plot of ground ap- peared instinctively to know where the garden was , although better - endowed creatures might have trouble to find it , and ...
Page 111
... eye was to be my credit and re- sponsibility alone . It was some time before I could induce the masons to remove the platform for mortar that they had , with instinctive stupidity , placed in the centre of what was to be my principal ...
... eye was to be my credit and re- sponsibility alone . It was some time before I could induce the masons to remove the platform for mortar that they had , with instinctive stupidity , placed in the centre of what was to be my principal ...
Common terms and phrases
appeared aquilegia formosa asparagus beautiful new coach became better Bridgeman called cauliflowers CHAPTER chickens churn Cloth cost cream crimson flax Cushy Dandy Jim Daniel O'Rourke peas Datura DATURA WRIGHTII dollars doubt DUTCH REPUBLIC early earth egg-plants eggs entire fact feathers feet five acres flowers flure Flushing French Revolution fresh fruit garden gourds Gran grass grew grow head horse inquired intirely Irish Irishmen JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT kitchen leaves look manure Marrott matter milk mind musquitoes Nantucket natural never occasionally onions Patrick piazza pig-pens plants pleasant pond pretty profit pump pups rain replied roof round SAMUEL SMILES season seedling seeds seemed skating spite spring strawberries summer sure thing tion trouble turnips vegetables verbenas village vols wagon waited wanted weeds Weeville Weeville's wonderful yer honor
Popular passages
Page i - Five Acres Too Much. A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as involved in Amateur Farming, with much Valuable Advice and Instruction to those about Purchasing Large or Small Places in the Rural Districts. By ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, Author of "Game Fish of North America," "Superior Fishing," "Game Birds,