Amado was born in a fazenda (" farm ") in the inland of the city of Itabuna, in the southern part of the Brazilian state of Bahia, son of João Amado de Faria and D. Eulália Leal.

`` 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.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

The one thing he missed from his farm in the Po Valley was the animals ; ;

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

The only available field that could be used near flood-ravaged Montpelier was on the Towne farm off upper Main Street, a narrow hillside where takeoffs and landings could be safely made only under light wind conditions.

The mercenaries were little interested in farming and added nothing to the output of the farm plots on which all work was still done with hoes as late as 1818.

It was the station wagon that had passed his cab on the road, the station wagon that had been parked at the Burch farm.

It was the Ford that had been outside Burch's farm.

Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here.

I was thinking of the heat and of water that morning when I was plowing the stubble field far across the hill from the farm buildings.

The goal was to demonstrate the superior power of " free labor ", whereby a common farm boy could work his way to the top by his own efforts.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

In the United States, farmland was typically divided as such, and the phrase " the back 40 " would refer to the 40 acre parcel to the back of the farm.

Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield, a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

The bulk of the documents relate to the running of a large, private estate is named after Heroninos because he was phrontistes ( Koine Greek: manager ) of the estate which had a complex and standarised system of accounting which was followed by all its local farm managers.

He was born on a farm near Kosse, Texas, in Limestone County near Groesbeck, to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills.

Jon was born on a farm that apparently contained few amenities ; in one strip, his father, upon seeing indoor plumbing, remarks, " Woo-ha!

Peano was born and raised on a farm at Spinetta, a hamlet now belonging to Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy.

Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township ( near

Cook was the second of eight children of James Cook, a Scottish farm labourer from Ednam near Kelso, and his locally born wife, Grace Pace, from Thornaby-on-Tees.

They purchased a farm near Bel Air in Harford County, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children.

Engler, a Roman Catholic, was born in Mount Pleasant and grew up on a cattle farm near Beal City.

After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt ; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.

Marwick was born on the farm of Innister, in the Wasbister district of Rousay.

Having met with no success farming, the Grants left the St. Louis farm when their fourth and final child was born in 1858.

Tony and Mary owned a cucumber farm in Canning, Ontario where Walter Gretzky was born and raised and where he met Wayne's mother, Phyllis Hockin.

Jardine, one of five children, was born in 1784 on a small farm near Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, and was named after Twila Thornburg, the " Pig Princess " of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana.

Telford was born on 9 August 1757 at Glendinning, a hill farm 3 miles west of Eskdalemuir Kirk, in the rural parish of Westerkirk, in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire.

Bloemfontein was the original farm of Johannes Nicolaas Brits born 21 February 1790, owner and first inhabitant of Bloemfontein.

Altman's father, born in Ukraine, had been a worker on a collective farm in the Soviet Union.

Preston Tucker was born on September 21, 1903, on a peppermint farm near Capac, Michigan.

His master usually found him a slave girl for a wife ( the children were then born slaves ), often set him up in a house ( with farm or business ) and simply took an annual rent of him.

James Bowman Lindsay was born in Cotton of West Hills, Carmyllie near Arbroath in Angus, Scotland, son of John Lindsay, farm worker, and Elizabeth Bowman.

She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon after and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, north of Toronto, where their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976.

The Cornish Rex is a genetic mutation that originated from a litter of kittens born in the 1950s on a farm in Cornwall, UK ; hence the first part of the breed's name.

Miller was born on a farm in Clarinda, Iowa, to Lewis Elmer Miller and Mattie Lou ( née Cavender ).

Bobby Joe Morrow was born in Harlingen, Texas, and raised on a farm in San Benito, Texas.