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4 total sentences available.
She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.
Source: wiktionary
They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.
Source: wiktionary
Alone with his longing, he lies down on his bed and sings a lament; everything seems too large, the steadings and the fields.
Source: wiktionary
… authorized the Grant in Organization a new steading on our southernmost continent. With your permission, we intend to call it the Steading of Harrington, and I ask you to assume the office of its Steadholder for yourself and your heirs.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include barnyard, collective farm, croft, demesne, dude ranch.
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