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  • It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste land.†  (source)
  • He was planting on the barren hills and didn't take up any arable land.†  (source)
  • Its swaths of deep brush and arable land made it great for farming but less appealing for honeymoons and hedonism.†  (source)
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  • Four centuries of terra-forming had made the atmosphere breathable and a few million acres of land arable.†  (source)
    arable = capable of being farmed productively
  • Upriver there was no more arable land.†  (source)
  • At nine o'clock, Mr. Arable's truck rolled into the Fair Grounds and came to a stop at Wilbur's pen.†  (source)
  • Bands of farmers blanketed the slopes, planting poppies on every arable surface.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • One of the few arable fields was immediately to our left.†  (source)
  • Forty acres of arable land, with sheep, horses, pigs, cows, and enough corn in the barns for three years ahead!†  (source)
  • 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;†  (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)
  • He had plenty of arable land and pasturage, and could keep as many head of cattle as he liked.†  (source)
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