Citations:acres


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * Here I found a clear piece of land, near three acres, so surrounded with woods that it was almost an enclosure by nature; at least, it did not want near so much labour to make it so as the other piece of ground I had worked so hard at.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * "The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land." — HOLLAND'S PLINY.
 * No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one — I mean a downright bumpkin dandy — a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
 * For Pliny tells us of Whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and Aldrovandus of others which measured eight hundred feet in length — Rope Walks and Thames Tunnels of Whales!