`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

A good Khat plant can be harvested four times a year, providing a year long source of income for the farmer.

Some synonyms of tomte in Swedish and Norwegian include gårdbo ("( farm ) yard-dweller "), gardvord (" yard-warden ", see vörðr ), god bonde (" good farmer "), fjøsnisse (" barn gnome ") or gårdsrå (" yard-spirit ").

For example, if a fisherman and farmer held a match and the fisherman won, a good catch was predicted for the year.

The individual holdings were widely scattered, so that no single farmer would end up with all the good or bad land.

Once a new variety is developed, however, seed provides a good vehicle for distribution of improvements in a package that is familiar to the farmer.

Battling his desire for revenge, John also grows into a respectable farmer and takes good care of his mother and two sisters.

* Vernon Tull – Vernon is a good friend of the Bundrens, who appears in the book as a good farmer, less religious than his wife.

Based on current prices and forecast levels at harvest time, the farmer might decide that planting wheat is a good idea one season, but the forecast prices are only that — forecasts.

The tomte or nisse ( in the southern Sweden and Norway and Denmark ) is a good wight who takes care of the house and barn when the farmer is asleep, but only if the farmer reciprocates by setting out food for the Tomte and he himself also takes care of his family, farm and animals.

The first two steps of capital structure change received good support from farmer shareholders at Fonterra ’ s annual meeting in November 2009.

Joe Leydon of Variety hailed Hollbrook's performance in the film as a " career-highlight star turn as an irascible octogenarian farmer who will not go gentle into that good night.

One farmer whose place is located near the reservation has been continually bothered by the Indians cutting his fences and turning their cattle in to graze on his property .” Yet, in the very same year we hear this report in the Creston Review, June 21, 1912: “ Agent Galbraith says everything is in good condition and the majority of the Indians are at work picking berries for the ranchers who find their help useful and profitable .”

A nearby farmer, Omago, and his wife, Ara, often take care of Yaltar, and everyone in the South of Drahll usually passes information to Veltan through Omago, as they are good friends.

He was born in Branford, Conn., the son of Betsey ( Bradley ) and Anderson Plant, a farmer in good circumstances.

As Marcus Cato wrote " when they would praise a worthy man their praise took this form: ' Good husband good farmer '; it is from the farming class that the bravest men and the sturdiest soldiers come.

He notes that a good farmer must take precious time to examine the land, looking over every detail.

With good land and a regular salary, Moore rapidly consolidated his position as a leading farmer.

In all his stations — farmer, king, and monk — he acquitted himself well and worthily, and his name has come down to us from the mists of time as one of those rare men of whom we know little, but all that little good.

According to another story, a farmer in Bavaria took a consecrated Host from Mass to his house, believing that it would give him and his family good fortune.

He was never in good health and after graduating from Miami University in 1840, he became a farmer in the Oakland area of Wilmington, Ohio, and died on September 16, 1849 from what might have been smallpox.

When the farmer saw her run with her trail of dust over the plain, he could not help smiling, because however teasing and naughty she could be, she had a good temper.

The elaborate and refined Japanese tea ceremony is meant to demonstrate respect through grace and good etiquette as demonstrated here by Dr. Genshitsu Sen, 15th Grand Master of the Urasenke Tea School.

In his Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen asserted free time as the most fundamental good, and systems of organizing that enabled it as the most fundamental value in civilization.

As an example, Amartya Sen commented on the Theil index, " given the association of doom with entropy in the context of thermodynamics, it may take a little time to get used to entropy as a good thing.

He was good friends with conservative Sen. Jesse Helms and liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy.

The President knows he is likely to die in office and presses his good friend, Sen. Munson, to steer Leffingwell's nomination through the Senate: I'm going fast ...

Some economists, like Amartya Sen, have argued that good results from the aggregate of dollar voting requires near perfect knowledge about any product that one wishes to buy.

Her performance here was good enough for her to receive many more film offers, and during the 1960s and ' 70s, she worked in several notable Indian films, working with leading directors such as Raj Kapoor in Mera Naam Joker ( 1970 ), Satyajit Ray in Aranyer Din Ratri ( Days and Nights in the Forest ), Mrinal Sen in Padatik ( The Guerilla Fighter ) and Raj Khosla in Do Badan.

Sen and Sukanya Verma, writing for Rediff, both gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and both said that it was a good film for children.

Sen summarized " So, is it a good superhero movie?

That is why a good society ought to mitigate such discrimination, promoting people's freedom which, according to Sen, is the most valuable element of a satisfactory life.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

They looked a good deal alike, Morgan thought.

`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

good grass, good water.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

A good man, Emmett.

`` But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good ''.

They were all good men.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

A good many beef-hungry settlers were accepting the death of William Lewis as proof that the warning notes were not idle threats.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

That long ride the four of you took must've given him a good appetite.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

The front windows of the place were long and narrow, reaching nearly to the floor and affording an unusually good view of the interior.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

Please, dear God, make my pilots good, he prayed.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.

Now he broke them open, hoping a good meal might lessen this depression crushing Hettie.