"Farmstead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she resumed, "and on the eastern side of our farmstead, there lives an old dame, whose age is this year, over ninety. She goes in daily for fasting, and worshipping Buddha. Who'd have thought it, she so moved the pity of the goddess of mercy that she gave her this message ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... late, walking down the valley to the farmstead for bread. On this, with milk and fruit, they supped after Sanchia had bathed, and clad herself in one of his Moorish robes. Hooded and folded in this she sat at meat, and Senhouse, filled with the Holy Ghost, discoursed at large. The past they took for ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... beautiful countryside and much of it belonged to him. Though his wife had brought him money, Sandymere had long been the property of the Challoners, and the old house had a picturesque stateliness, while every field and farmstead had been ...
— Blake's Burden • Harold Bindloss
... into several fields, and crossed by a rough cart-track leading past a roomy, one-storied cottage, grey-walled and brown-thatched, and on through the wood into the main road. The cottage, with its outbuildings, made a little farmstead, and here lived Dick Doley and his wife Sal, who did a little farming, but mainly lived by huckstering. Today was market-day at Stafford, and unless they had broken the routine of half a lifetime, they would now be packing their little cart with marketables and ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... lives there in the farmstead at Gettysburg, and Leonora, now, like himself, an old woman, is still at ...
— Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels • Stephen Leacock
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