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These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.

Scottish farmers had already been making whisky in the area for centuries with their surplus barley.

As the deadly virus swept through the region, entire families of farmers and harvesters were wiped out.

The farmers in the area told Ledu that what normally fed them for one year would barely stretch for the next few months.

Farmers, fearing ISIS attacks, have left the city with their sheep.

He annually has a gathering of distinguished farmers and others to inspect his estate and see how his "book farming" gets on.

In and around where they now sat, there was quite a settlement of Negroes, mostly small farmers.

His horticultural writings were exceedingly beneficial, as well to the gardeners as farmers.

Most of the farmers wore linen dusters and broad straw hats, but their women had put on all their finery.

Farmers often lose their entire stock of plants, and are forced to send miles to beg or buy of a more fortunate planter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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