Fazenda

At sunrise we were off for the "fazenda," the ranch of M. de Barros. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

There, on a bend of the stream, at the junction of the River Nanay, which is here about five hundred feet across, there had been established for many years this farm, homestead, or, to use the expression of the country, _ "fazenda," _ then in the height of its prosperity. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

The concert was noteworthy in that it took place in a giant open-air barn for milk cows the fazenda produces some of the highest quality milk in Brazil. ❋ Chris McGowan (2011)

The fazenda concerts were also touristic adventures. ❋ Chris McGowan (2011)

Global Voices em Português » Vá para a fazenda, rapaz! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Registro, which I have cursorily noticed before, is a picturesque fazenda on the roadside, all constructed in a rude wooden style, and is a mule station. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We first rode through a long, straggling village, called Carreiras, and afterwards passed a small fazenda, where there were evidences of a refined mind; it was radiant with flowers, and trellised with creepers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was fortunate for me that I arrived when I did, for half an hour later arrived en route for some distant fazenda Senhor Nicolão Netto Carneiro Seão, a polished and travelled man who spoke excellent English. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They consisted of a young married woman, whose husband, a mere boy, was on the top of the coach, and she was chaperoning two raw young girl cousins on a visit to her fazenda at some distance. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He was kind enough to say that he longed to meet Richard, and gave us a general invitation to visit his fazenda, and we exchanged cards. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We then passed a few straggling houses; then an old fazenda; then we came to a stream with one plank, which we made our animals cross. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We passed at intervals a few cottages or a solitary fazenda. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But the fifty percent provision stipulated that fifty percent of the forest on any given fazenda had to be saved. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

What a night it was for the passengers from the fazenda! ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the first place at Iquitos he had invited Torres to visit the fazenda; in the second place he had brought him on board the jangada, to become a passenger on it; and in the third place, in killing him, he had annihilated the only witness whose evidence could save the condemned man. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They had brought them wholesale from the woods in the neighborhood of the fazenda. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Iquitos, with grand ceremonies and the attendance of the whole staff of the fazenda, but if such was to be his idea he would have to withstand a vigorous attack concerning it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Joam Garral then called in an Indian who was the principal manager of the fazenda. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His father, Gidi Mavunga, knelt before him on the ground, a mat being forbidden in the presence: he made the “batta-palmas” before he addressed his “filho de pistola,” as he called him, in opposition to filho de fazenda. ❋ Unknown (2003)