7 servos.' In the Exeter record these seven serfs seem to get reckoned as being both servi and villani. So in the account of Rentis, D. 204-5, the lord is said to have one quarter of the arable in demesne and two oxen, while the villani are said to have the rest of the arable and one team; but the only villani are 8 coliberti and 4 servi.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
the alders you may root out; and the oaks may continue standing; the people may sell these, or use them otherwise. When once the ground is arable, I reckon upon 300 families for it, and 500 head of cows,--ha?'--Nobody answered; at last I began, and said:--英文原著 · 《Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussia》
"The scenery, however, gradually became more rough and broken. Knobs of gray gneiss, crowned by mournful cedars, intrenched upon the arable land, and the dark-blue gleam of water appeared through the trees. Our road, which had been approaching the Sound, now skirted the head of a deep, irregular inlet, beyond which extended a beautiful promontory, thickly studded with cedars, and with scattering groups of elm, oak and maple trees. Towards the end of the promontory stood a house, with white walls shining against the blue line of the Sound.英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
and has been worth 20s. (iii) A Somersetshire manor.(62*) All the land, save 10 acres, is in demesne; 2 bordiers hold the 10 acres. There is a team on the demesne; there are 2 beasts that do not plough, 7 pigs, 16 sheep, 4 acres of meadow, 7 of pasture. Value, 6s. (iv) A Somersetshire manor.(63*) The whole of the arable is in demesne; the only tenant is a bordier. There are 4 plough-oxen and 11 goats and 7 acres of underwood. Value, 6s. (v) A Devonshire manor.(64*) To all seeming all is in demesne and there are no tenants.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
We have been at no great pains to select examples, and yet smaller manors may be found, manors which provide arable land for but two oxen.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
By noble toil , not by shallow laughter and vain talk, they made this English Existence from a savage forest into an arable inhabitable field for us; and we, idly dreaming it would grow spontaneous crops forever,--find it now in a too questionable state; peremptorily requiring real labor and agriculture again. Real "agriculture" is not pleasant; much pleasanter to reap and winnow (with ballot-box or otherwise) than to plough!英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
I bought that cheap plot of non-arable dirt by the toxic waste dump-up the hill - from the old fire station. - Okay, Todd.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》