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  • One couldn't take money for the milk, and no cow could be slaughtered for food, though rarely one might be sold to buy a piece of arable land or for some other truly important purpose.†   (source)
  • Forty acres of arable land, with sheep, horses, pigs, cows, and enough corn in the barns for three years ahead!†   (source)
  • Every scrap of arable land had been terraced and planted with barley, bitter buckwheat, or potatoes.†   (source)
  • "Out to the hoghouse," replied Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Rhea was a large port surrounded by sufficient arable land to support a thriving town.†   (source)
  • "Let's let the children go off by themselves," suggested Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Does he really?" said Mrs. Arable, rather vaguely.†   (source)
  • "She knows Henry Fussy," said Mrs. Arable brightly.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable said goodbye and thanked Dr. Dorian very much for his advice.†   (source)
  • "Put it on her chair!" said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Have you heard about the words that appeared in the spider's web?" asked Mrs. Arable nervously.†   (source)
  • "And if you go in those swings," said Mrs. Arable, "you hang on tight!†   (source)
  • "Run!" commanded Mrs. Arable, taking the pig from Fern and slipping a doughnut into her hand.†   (source)
  • "Well, they've got to grow up some time," said Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • Finally Mrs. Arable made up her mind she would pay a call on old Doctor Dorian and ask his advice.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable gave him a feeding around noontime each day, when Fern was away in school.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable was not willing to provide for him any longer.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Zuckerman and Mrs. Arable stood on the running board of the truck.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable dashed to the driver's seat and pulled on the emergency brake.†   (source)
  • "You children be quiet till we get the pig unloaded," said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Well, I feel better about Fern," said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • At nine o'clock, Mr. Arable's truck rolled into the Fair Grounds and came to a stop at Wilbur's pen.†   (source)
  • "Put that empty buttermilk jar into the truck!" commanded Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • He was glad to see Mrs. Arable and gave her a comfortable chair.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable stood quietly  and watched them go.†   (source)
  • "What kind of story did she tell?" asked Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Fern, dear, how would a fish get in a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable gave Fern two quarters and two dimes.†   (source)
  • Who saved Charlotte's life by scaring that Arable boy away with a rotten goose egg?†   (source)
  • Avery and Fern Arable heard it as they walked the dusty road.†   (source)
  • "I haven't the faintest idea," said Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Cheer up," replied Mrs. Arable, "this is fun."†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable dressed, ate breakfast, and then went out and polished his truck.†   (source)
  • ON SUNDAY morning Mr. and Mrs. Arable and Fern were sitting at breakfast in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • "Well, do you' understand it?" asked Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Just the same, I do worry about her," replied Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable shifted uneasily in her chair.†   (source)
  • Then, when Mrs. Arable complained, he was moved to a bigger box in the woodshed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Zuckerman and Mr. Arable and Lurvy grabbed the pig and pushed him headfirst toward the crate.†   (source)
  • "Call up the Zuckermans," suggested Mrs. Arable to Fern.†   (source)
  • "What does she look like?" asked Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • The big truck with Mr. Arable at the wheel backed slowly down toward the barnyard.†   (source)
  • "She's got a guest for breakfast," said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • The truck, driven by Mr. Arable, crawled slowly back to the pigpen.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable found a baby's nursing bottle and a rubber nipple.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I suppose they do," said Mrs. Arable, vaguely.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Arable returned to the house half an hour later, he carried a carton under his arm.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable cut the motor, got out, walked around to the rear, and lowered the tailgate.†   (source)
  • "It's terribly hot," said Mrs. Arable, fanning herself with an advertisement of a deep freeze.†   (source)
  • "Come out of that pigpen immediately!" cried Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • After she had left the room, Mrs. Arable spoke in a low voice to her husband.†   (source)
  • "It's the buttermilk," whispered Mrs. Arable to Mrs. Zuckerman.†   (source)
  • "Fern," said Mr. Arable, "I know more about raising a litter of pigs than you do.†   (source)
  • "You're all right, Edith," said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable set the carton down at Fern's place.†   (source)
  • "No, I only distribute pigs to early risers," said Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable put a pitcher of cream on the table.†   (source)
  • Attolia and Sounis seemed content for the moment to war against each other, but Eddis had to have her tiny amounts of arable land planted carefully or her people wouldn't have the food to withstand another winter without trade.†   (source)
  • Lurvy and John Arable and Mr. Zuckerman came along at that moment, followed by Mrs. Arable and Mrs. Zuckerman and Avery and Fern.†   (source)
  • Lurvy, Zuckerman, even John Arable.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable was tucking Fern into bed.†   (source)
  • Zuckerman and Lurvy and John Arable and the others will be back any minute now, and they'll shove you into that crate and away you'll go.†   (source)
  • "Come out at once!" cried Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "That's some pig!" said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • He and Mr. Arable and Lurvy and Avery grabbed the crate and boosted it over the side of the pen and up into the truck.†   (source)
  • That morning, just as Wilbur fell asleep, Avery Arable wandered into the Zuckerman's front yard, followed by Fern.†   (source)
  • When he was five weeks old, Mr. Arable said he was now big enough to sell, and would have to be sold.†   (source)
  • "Who is Templeton?" asked Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable studied Wilbur carefully.†   (source)
  • Crowds of people surrounded it, and Mr. Arable had to drive very carefully in order not to run over anybody.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I do," said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • When Fern told her mother that Avery had tried to hit the Zuckermans' spider with a stick, Mrs. Arable was so shocked that she sent Avery to bed without any supper, as punishment.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable got out of the truck.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable fixed a small yard specially for Wilbur under an apple tree, and gave him a large wooden box full of straw, with a doorway cut in it so he could walk in and out as he pleased.†   (source)
  • "Everybody in!" called Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Charlotte?" said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "I suppose so," said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • "He's yours," said Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Avery," chuckled Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable opened her handbag.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable hugged Mrs. Zuckerman.†   (source)
  • "Who's 'us'?" asked Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable scrubbed the back of Avery's neck, and wet his hair, and parted it, and brushed it down hard till it stuck to the top of his head—all but about six hairs that stood straight up.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable started the motor.†   (source)
  • "How many?" asked Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • "You wait!" said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • There were many complaints about the awful smell, and Wilbur had to tell the story over and over again, of how the Arable boy had tried to capture Charlotte, and how the smell of the broken egg drove him away just in time.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable worked silently.†   (source)
  • "He's up!" said Mr. Arable.†   (source)
  • When Mrs. Arable happened to look up into the starry sky and saw her little daughter sitting with Henry Fussy and going higher and higher into the air, and saw how happy Fern looked, she just shook her head.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable stopped walking.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable grinned.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable chuckled.†   (source)
  • "Well!" said Mrs. Arable.†   (source)
  • Arable?" sobbed 'Wilbur.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable smiled.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable kissed Airs.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Arable fidgeted.†   (source)
  • Mr. Arable patted him.†   (source)
  • Arable.†   (source)
  • …on Merrion Avenue valued at $2,000 apiece, or at $5,500 for all three; the house on Woodson Street valued at $5,000; 110 acres of wooded mountainside with a farm-house, several hundred peach, apple and cherry trees, and a few acres of arable ground for which Gant received $120 a year in rent, and which they valued at $50 an acre, $5,500; two houses, one on Carter Street, and one on Duncan, rented to railway people, for which they received $25 a month apiece, and which they valued…†   (source)
  • He had plenty of arable land and pasturage, and could keep as many head of cattle as he liked.†   (source)
  • The only marks on the uniformity of the scene were a rick of last year's produce standing in the midst of the arable, the rooks that rose at his approach, and the path athwart the fallow by which he had come, trodden now by he hardly knew whom, though once by many of his own dead family.†   (source)
  • Arable lands are few and limited; with but slight exceptions the prospect is a broad rich mass of grass and trees, mantling minor hills and dales within the major.†   (source)
  • The plantation wherein she had taken shelter ran down at this spot into a peak, which ended it hitherward, outside the hedge being arable ground.†   (source)
  • To decline to marry him after all—in obedience to her emotion of last night—and leave the dairy, meant to go to some strange place, not a dairy; for milkmaids were not in request now calving-time was coming on; to go to some arable farm where no divine being like Angel Clare was.†   (source)
  • First she inquired for the lighter kinds of employment, and, as acceptance in any variety of these grew hopeless, applied next for the less light, till, beginning with the dairy and poultry tendance that she liked best, she ended with the heavy and course pursuits which she liked least—work on arable land: work of such roughness, indeed, as she would never have deliberately voluteered for.†   (source)
  • The clear, kingly effulgence that had characterized the majority expressed a heath and furze country like their own, which in one direction extended an unlimited number of miles; the rapid flares and extinctions at other points of the compass showed the lightest of fuel—straw, beanstalks, and the usual waste from arable land.†   (source)
  • A small part of the land—the worst part—he let out for rent, while a hundred acres of arable land he cultivated himself with his family and two hired laborers.†   (source)
  • 'It is not a bad plan, I can assure you, wife, and the Italians do not waste the straw by not cutting it with the grain; having more arable than pasture land, they use this high stubble for their cattle, letting them feed in it, and eat what grain is left; afterward, allowing the grass to grow up among it, they mow all together for winter fodder.†   (source)
  • Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.†   (source)
  • The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that romantic and picturesque character which it so eminently possesses.†   (source)
  • The river that runs through it makes of it, as it were, two regions with distinct physiognomies—all on the left is pasture land, all of the right arable.†   (source)
  • The cattle-yard, the garden, hay fields, and arable land, divided into several parts, had to be made into separate lots.†   (source)
  • The further he rode, the happier he became, and plans for the land rose to his mind each better than the last; to plant all his fields with hedges along the southern borders, so that the snow should not lie under them; to divide them up into six fields of arable and three of pasture and hay; to build a cattle yard at the further end of the estate, and to dig a pond and to construct movable pens for the cattle as a means of manuring the land.†   (source)
  • , or to go about and beg? and if they do this they are put in prison as idle vagabonds, while they would willingly work but can find none that will hire them; for there is no more occasion for country labour, to which they have been bred, when there is no arable ground left.†   (source)
  • His eyes he opened, and beheld a field, Part arable and tilth, whereon were sheaves New reaped; the other part sheep-walks and folds; I' the midst an altar as the land-mark stood, Rustick, of grassy sord; thither anon A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf, Unculled, as came to hand; a shepherd next, More meek, came with the firstlings of his flock, Choicest and best; then, sacrificing, laid The inwards and their fat, with incense…†   (source)
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