| 单词 | quarter section |
| 例句 | Fold quarter section in half short edge to short edge. Take a Flying Leap, but Bring Your Paper Parachute 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z "They are never here," said Spaight, jumping from the auto and sweeping his hand about over a beautiful quarter section of land, one of the finest in the county. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z They bought a bit of flower-decked prairie, a quarter section crossed in one corner by a little creek flowing southward until it joined a larger steam flowing into the Arkansas River. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z My idea is to learn farming out here, and some day to take up a quarter section of land. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z So before returning home I had bought a quarter section near Bloomington, and that next spring we moved unto a rented place adjoining it. Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane 2011-10-17T02:00:15.157Z At that rate a quarter section of pine would make a man a millionaire many times over. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z He purchased relinquishments upon three beautiful quarter sections of land in the county lying just to the west. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z Regardless of his pain, he sprang to his feet, with his uninjured arm tore a loose bed-slat from the wagon, and, stepping across the line, thrust it into the finest quarter section of the strip. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Then take up your quarter section; for you'll be eighteen by then. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z However, I bought a quarter section of it adjoining the tract which J.B. Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane 2011-10-17T02:00:15.157Z N. C. D. Taylor pre-empted the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 25, and the west half of the same quarter section; also lot 1, section 36, township 34, range 19. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z A beautiful quarter section of land joined the town on the east, and the man who had drawn it had already established his residence thereupon, so that he was known. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z Then he would go to the nearest Dominion Lands Office and file on a quarter section away in some remote region, where there would be little chance of his identity being discovered. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z Took jobs here and there for four years, and then applied for a quarter section. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z Perhaps a quarter section would be still better. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z He was married in Prescott to a daughter of Joseph Mosier, and subsequently pre-empted a quarter section of land on Prescott prairie. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z At the end of the second course a plate, bearing a quarter section of sickly-looking apple-pie, was slid over to each. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Jake unfolded a scrap of paper from a note-book in which he kept a list of vacant quarter sections and handed it to us to read. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z But where men fail is if they come out ignorant like you and pitch upon a quarter section when they ain't got the knowledge to choose their country. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z He earned sufficient money to buy a quarter section of railway land at $11 an acre. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z So I took up this here quarter section and started in. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z We started out the next morning after our arrival to find a quarter section of land. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z He spoke of Oregon, where any family could live and live well on a quarter section of land that was free for the taking. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z As for Tom, he dropped his bundle and went off at a run towards the nearest quarter section, shouting for help at the top of his voice. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z A quarter section of land and 100 head of stock mean the maximum of growth from every square yard. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z Fill your pannican of tea, spread out your biscuits, cut off a quarter section of your roast suckling, and fall to, and a hundred to one you never ate anything more delicious. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Freeman owned the quarter section of government land, on which the buildings referred to were located. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The author is in possession of a shell in which a longitudinal flaw was revealed in the ogive by the cutting away of a longitudinal quarter section, Fig. The Development of Armor-piercing Shells with Suggestions for their Improvement A would-be settler can now sail for the Dominion, to find there a quarter section prepared for his coming, with the shack built, the well dug, and some forty acres broken and seeded. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z Large tracts have been surveyed by the government and are indicated as sections, quarter sections, yet even these boundaries are sometimes imperfect, caused by incorrect surveys, whereby lands overlap, or otherwise have defective boundaries. Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman In the five years that followed, that particular quarter section of what soon became South Dakota was a storm center of villainy, especially when the bi-monthly payday came round. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade They stopped at Grand Island and Kearney, but at neither place could they find two adjoining quarter sections, not yet filed on. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Two men must fall and buck A quarter section every day or they were out of luck. Paul Bunyan and His Loggers As to Hurley's quarter section, the winter being on them, it happened that there was no one who cared to purchase, and Joe had picked it up at a very modest figure. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z I've got a quarter section of as good land as there is in the Wabash bottoms, and I don't owe a dollar on it. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro He first tried on it the bite which made such havoc with a quarter section of custard pie, but his incisors made no more impression upon it than if it had been a shingle. Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran The next dwelling place of the Badger family was a log house built on the south half of the quarter section. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z They are better off than the average of white people, for every man, woman and child owns a quarter section of land in the Indian Territory, and receives an annuity of money besides. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Each settler shall give in the numbers of the quarter sections that he may claim. History of the Constitutions of Iowa "If we only had a deed for a quarter section o' land around our house we'd be purty well started in life for young men," ventured Si. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro It seems rarely to occur to the new arrival that the average farm in Ontario could produce more than a quarter section of prairie land. History of Farming in Ontario I thought it would, indeed, be a poor quarter section that would not have eighty acres of farm land, so I took my chances. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Put one man on a quarter section of land, containing prairie and forest, and he will get a rich return. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology No settler shall be entitled to hold more than three quarter sections of land. History of the Constitutions of Iowa In the corner of each quarter section on either side of the road along the fertile valley, a little home had stood three days ago. The Rustler of Wind River For ten sections of land this would mean about $20 a section, or $5 a quarter section, in addition to what they had been paying with unsatisfactory results. Rural Life and the Rural School It is a law for the uniform survey of public lands into townships six miles square, subdivided into sections containing 640 acres, and quarter sections containing 160 acres. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 An enriched ovolo suggesting a quarter section of a cylinder and two disks in alternation lends added refinement to the paneled jambs and the architrave casing of the arch with its hand-carved keystone. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia Miss Grieve had purchased of Mrs. Nicolson a quarter section of very appetizing ginger cake to eat with our afternoon tea, and I stopped in to buy more. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland He selected a ‘quarter section’ in a dense wilderness, and soon entered upon the arduous work of clearing a farm. The Cabin on the Prairie At last the wide "quarter section" lay upturned, black to the sun and the garden that had bloomed and fruited for millions of years, waiting for man, lay torn and ravaged. A Son of the Middle Border A quarter section isn't big enough for a potato patch when two men claim it. Oklahoma Sunshine It was a good quarter section upon which this ambitious homesteader had filed. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley It’s cost more’n the money paid out for it to get that quarter section of prairie out of the wilderness. Winning the Wilderness I wish to find a good quarter section of land on which to put up a house. The Cabin on the Prairie After being surveyed, the land, by proclamation of the President, is offered for sale at public auction by half quarter sections, or tracts of 80 acres. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West A quarter section is half a mile square, and contains one hundred and sixty acres. History of New Brunswick I bought a section, and he took up a quarter section. The Trail to Yesterday I want to buy the quarter section lying southeast of us. Winning the Wilderness “Why, isn’t that quarter section free?” inquired the minister, perplexed. The Cabin on the Prairie All plates should be “guarded,” and any “quarter sections,” that is, sections consisting of two leaves, should have their backs strengthened by a “guard,” or they may very easily be torn in the sewing. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Each quarter section is referred to as the northeast or southwest quarter of the section, and each forty acres as the northwest or southeast quarter of a particular quarter. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know It was a quarter section lying adjacent to good water, and provided the best grass in the vicinity. The Trail to Yesterday What influences dominated, I don't pretend to say, but I won for my client three forties of the quarter section in dispute. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier When I came home I thought it might amuse me to bully a few quarter sections out of the Ericsons; but I’ve almost decided I can get more fun for my money somewhere else.” A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Matt owns the quarter section, as an actual settler. Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer He was an average farmer on a quarter section of only medium land in Switzerland county, living in a cabin two miles from any neighbor. The Heroic Women of Early Indiana Methodism: An Address Delivered Before the Indiana Methodist Historical Society Many of these forgot their oaths in the land office, pulled up and filed on new quarter sections nearer to Woodsdale. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado We've got a quarter section, but you know the range is in back of it. The Man Next Door If every quarter section were to be enclosed with a common post and board fence, it would take every foot of pine on the soil of Michigan! Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Her love of the Homestead delighted me, but I was a little disappointed by the coolness with which she received my gift of a deed to a quarter section of Oklahoma land. A Daughter of the Middle Border Pigs Eye, an old toughened voyageur and a young fellow, both claimed the same quarter section of land and agreed to refer their quarrel to Brown. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History What knew I of tracts, of townships, of quarter sections or of subdivisions? The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice By law you can hold only one quarter section each by squatters' right. The Eagle's Heart Mr. Walker's bill granted a homestead of a quarter section to every settler on payment of twenty dollars, after three years' occupancy and possession. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He lived with his wife and five grown up children on a splendid quarter section of land bordering on the Cumberland River. The Kentucky Ranger The house was built so that a corner stood in each quarter section and complied with the law that each owner of a quarter section should have a home on it. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History One quarter section of this will be the pattern for a morning glory. Make Your Own Hats But let me tell you, if this country should get a railroad and settle up, that quarter section might produce all the income we'd need, just out of hay and potatoes. North of Fifty-Three In June, 1860, a Homestead bill was passed by Congress, securing to actual settlers a quarter section of the public lands, at twenty-five cents per acre, which was vetoed by Mr. Buchanan. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy We left the ranch and took up a quarter section of land on the Nueces. The Boss of the Lazy Y New insults and outrages were now offered to the Indians, and they were again ordered to remove, not from the quarter sections which had actually been sold, but to the west side of the Mississippi. Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk "One hundred and sixty acres each: twelve hundred acres for the kids, not one of age, a quarter section to the man!" The Freebooters of the Wilderness He is now a prosperous farmer in the far West, living on a quarter section of land given to him by the Government, and on which he has made good his claim to American citizenship. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine In 1842 he came to Illinois and purchased a quarter section of land a mile west of what is now the site of the pleasant and prosperous town of DeKalb. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside With his first big fee he bought a quarter section of land for his stepmother who had been so good to him. Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance To meet this last situation, Congress instituted a systematic survey of the Ohio country, laying it out into townships, sections of 640 acres each, and quarter sections. History of the United States Do you know a quarter section of that big timber is worth from $10,000 to $40,000 to its owners, the people of the United States? The Freebooters of the Wilderness Van was presently engrossed in a search for quarter sections, ranges, and townships. The Furnace of Gold "Father bought the quarter section for a dollar an acre from Leroy." The Turtles of Tasman It had a long barn and cattle sheds, for Madison Clay was a "great" stockraiser and the owner of a "quarter section." Salomy Jane A township is divided into thirty-six sections, each one mile square, and containing six hundred and forty acres of land; and sections are divided into quarter sections. Elements of Civil Government The Government laid out its vast estate in townships six miles square, which it subdivided into sections of 640 acres and quarter sections of 160 acres. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making We hear much said of late of the justice and policy of providing a homestead, a quarter section of the public land, to every poor and landless family in the country. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Then he began to see the possibilities of that alluvial pocket under irrigation, and before he went back to college he secured the quarter section. The Rim of the Desert All one firm could take up by itself was a quarter section, and you're not crazy enough to think any concern could afford to build a plant for the sake of cutting that amount! The Rules of the Game "Well, Jack," said Billy, "if this outfit don't put you on the best quarter section around that old corral, you'll know that they have throwed off on you." Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories The quarter section was regarded as the public land unit and was the largest amount permitted for individual preëmption and later for a homestead. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Four men just over in Town 21 had built a house on the corners of four quarter sections. The Mystery of Metropolisville This is the quarter section I have come to look up. The Rim of the Desert As each township is surveyed one quarter section of 640 acres is set apart for common schools. Government and Administration of the United States A 20 acre lot would be an eighth of a quarter section. A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California Government land intended for sale was laid out in quarter sections of 160 acres, and after being advertised for a certain time was offered for sale at public auction. A School History of the United States The proposition was made by some member that we utilize the result of our exploration by taking up quarter sections of land at the most prominent points of interest, and a general discussion followed. The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Still, the railroad passes within a few miles, and the property must have made some advance since he bought the quarter section. The Rim of the Desert This is again divided up into sections of one square mile each or 640 acres, and this again into quarter sections of 160 acres each. Government and Administration of the United States Before her rolled the quarter section, except for the little box-house, as bare of fences and buildings as when the Wades had first camped on it in their prairie schooner. Dust His pail contained four doughnuts, a quarter section of pie, six buttermilk biscuits, six ginger cookies, a baked cup custard, and a quart of cold coffee. The Village Watch-Tower There they had measured off their quarter section themselves by driving across the prairie in a wagon, to the wheel of which they had tied a red cotton handkerchief, and counting off its revolutions. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories This quarter section belongs to my wife, and it's up to me to make the water connections safe for her. The Rim of the Desert Said he would buy eighty acres more, east of it, after he moved in the spring, which would make it square, a quarter section. The Bark Covered House They had settled on a fertile quarter section on the Pottawattomie Creek in a small group of people of Southern feeling. The Man in Gray Other sections and quarter sections of land were entered at the land office by new corners. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established The amount of land was one quarter section, or one hundred and sixty acres. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Hiram Miller, of the relief parties, is authority for the statement that Mr. Donner owned a quarter section of land within the present city limits of Chicago. History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra At these rates a forty acre farm would pay from $3.20 to $154.80, and a quarter section four times these amounts. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan He spent a day in Washington investigating the chances of the new settler securing a quarter section of land in Miami County, Kansas, the survey of which had been completed. The Man in Gray He can go on to a quarter section which may be worth fifteen dollars an acre, and preempt it before it is surveyed, and finally obtain it for $1.25 an acre. Minnesota and Dacotah So Radway got the "descriptions" and a little map divided into townships, sections, and quarter sections; and went out to look at it. The Blazed Trail He had a fine field of wheat, and was finishing the plowing of his entire quarter section. Main-Travelled Roads "More likely kick the whole northwest quarter section of your shoulder off when you try to shoot it," growled Abe, who had been paying similar close attention to his gun. The Red Acorn And the waste of timber seen on every hand wherever you find a mill owned and operated by capitalists would have been unknown if there had been an individual owner to each quarter section. Confiscation; an outline It is often the case, indeed, that men get a title by preemption who never intend to live on their quarter section. Minnesota and Dacotah It caused her to remove to Santa Ana, where her old father had feebly ranched a "quarter section" in the valley. Under the Redwoods I recommended him half o' my own quarter section, and he took it. From Sand Hill to Pine It had a long barn and cattle sheds, for Madison Clay was a "great" stock-raiser and the owner of a "quarter section." Stories in Light and Shadow The mills are capable of doing just as good work if the fifty quarter sections are owned by fifty men as they are if owned by one man. Confiscation; an outline He and his father and two brothers not only worked their own big farm, but rented a quarter section from Nat Wheeler. One of Ours With a small pinch of it in one hand, and a quarter section of a bread-fruit in the other, the greatest chief in the valley would have laughed at all luxuries of a Parisian table. Typee I wish you wouldn't let daylight through me till I've had a chance to get my quarter section. A Mountain Woman It takes a great many quarter sections to make a bonanza farm. The Valley of the Moon That he might give full vent to his laughing propensities, and not make too much noise, he drew from his pocket his quarter section of a flour bag and put it into his mouth. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries Miss Grieve had purchased of Mrs. Nicolson a quarter section of very appetising ginger-cake to eat with our afternoon tea, and I stepped in to buy more. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Even your brother Tom still talks in quarter sections.—An' she was only a woman, too. The Valley of the Moon There was the quarry of perfect marble on Hafler's quarter section. The Valley of the Moon "There'll be room for that and for everything on a quarter section," she encouraged. The Valley of the Moon It was a quarter section of a flour sack! The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries After the flour has been consumed the sack is cut up into quarter sections, washed, hemmed and used for handkerchiefs. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries |
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