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"ref": "1778, Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, published 1789, Letter 43 to Daines Barrington, page 242",
"text": "[…] no sooner has a hen disburdened herself, than she rushes forth with a clamorous kind of joy, which the cock and the rest of his mistresses immediately adopt. The tumult is not confined to the family concerned, but catches from yard to yard, and spreads to every homestead within hearing, till at last the whole village is in an uproar.",
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"ref": "1861, George Eliot, chapter 1, in Silas Marner, Part 1",
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"ref": "1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!, Part 1",
"text": "He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the homestead of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery […]",
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"ref": "1649, Thomas Bancroft, “To the never-dying Memory of the Noble Lord Hastings”, in Richard Brome, editor, Lachrymæ Musarum, London, page 54",
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"word": "propriété"
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"word": "demeure"
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"sense": "place that is one's home",
"word": "luogo natio"
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"sense": "place that is one's home",
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"word": "casolare"
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"word": "hacienda"
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"ref": "c. 1620s, Joseph Hall, The Contemplations upon the History of the New Testament, London, published 1661, page 30",
"text": "Where then wast thou tempted, O Blessed Jesu? or whither wentest thou to meet with our great Adversary? I do not see thee led into the marketplace, or any other part of the City, or thy home-stead of Nazareth, but into the vast Wilderness, the habitation of beasts;",
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"ref": "1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, volume 2, London: Longman and Rees, Book 2, Section 4, page 38",
"text": "The PETSCHENEGRANS, as they are called in the russian and polish year-books, name themselves Kangar or Kangli, and were a powerful nomadic nation, which we can trace back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural.",
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"word": "Siedlerhof"
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"word": "Anwesen"
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"word": "Hofstelle"
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"ref": "1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 2, in East of Eden",
"text": "When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded.",
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"ref": "2007, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood (motion picture), spoken by Al Rose (Jim Downey)",
"text": "He's an old man, Bandy...he homesteaded here. He lives with his grandson...he said he would like to talk to you.",
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"ref": "1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, volume 2, London: Longman and Rees, Book 2, Section 4, page 38",
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"code": "ka",
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"sense": "house together with surrounding land and buildings",
"word": "კარ-მიდამო"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "კარ-მიდამო"
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"sense": "place that is one's home",
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"sense": "place that is one's home",
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"code": "uk",
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"word": "сади́ба"
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"ref": "1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 2, in East of Eden",
"text": "When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded.",
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"ref": "2007, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood (motion picture), spoken by Al Rose (Jim Downey)",
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