"Plot of ground" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from my own plot of ground," said the grizzled gardener, and looked away. She had his tulips in her hand, and now ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... readily, and they had a little plot of ground allotted to them, where they had three tents or houses set up, surrounded with a basket-work, palisaded like Atkins's, and adjoining to his plantation. Their tents were contrived so, that they had each of them a room, a part to lodge in, and a middle tent, ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe
... well you can guess! It may be that we still have one. He is dead now and buried in a little fenced-in plot of ground close by the churchyard. If you are not easily frightened I will show you his grave some day. It is situated among the dunes, with nothing but lyme grass around it, and here and there a few immortelles, and one always hears the sea. It is ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various
... of raising seedlings is the one practiced by Mr. Boyden. In August I set the plants from which I wish to secure new combinations in a plot of ground the size of my glass frame, and in early spring set the frame over them, so that the plants may blossom before any others. Thus, no mixture from the pollen of outside plants can take place, for none are in bloom save those in the frame. The plants within the frame are two or three pistillate ...
— Success With Small Fruits • E. P. Roe
... matter. Cesar calling backe those which he had sent foorth, returned to his ships, and finding them in such state as he had heard, tooke order for the repairing of those that were not vtterlie destroied, and caused them so to be drawne vp to the land, that with a trench he might so compasse in a plot of ground, that might serue both for defense of his ships, and also for the incamping of those men of warre, which he should leaue to attend vpon the safegard of the same. And bicause there were at the least a fortie ships lost by ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) • Raphael Holinshed
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