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- He appealed to them most civilly, but they still went on: now the Communal herdsmen would let the village cows stray into his meadows; then horses from the night pasture would get among his corn.†
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- The peasants had plenty of land: every man had twenty-five acres of Communal land given him for his use, and any one who had money could buy, besides, at fifty-cents an acre as much good freehold land as he wanted.†
- Five shares of Communal land were given him for his own and his sons' use: that is to say—125 acres (not altogether, but in different fields) besides the use of the Communal pasture.†
- Five shares of Communal land were given him for his own and his sons' use: that is to say—125 acres (not altogether, but in different fields) besides the use of the Communal pasture.†
- Of the Communal land alone he had three times as much as at his former home, and the land was good corn-land.†
- The first year, he sowed wheat on his share of the Communal land, and had a good crop.†
- He wanted to go on sowing wheat, but had not enough Communal land for the purpose, and what he had already used was not available; for in those parts wheat is only sown on virgin soil or on fallow land.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(communal) related to a group rather than individuals
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)