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The enslaved were included with the glebe, the land and home used by the minister.

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Mermaid clouds drifted over the glebe, over the cockerel tree, over the Malvern Hills.

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His imagination had no need of anything more stirring than that presented to him by the recollection of human vicissitudes amidst glebe and glade.

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He extinguishes the Ribbon lodge, fastens his tenantry by equitable leases to the glebe, and gradually finds in the management of his estate a career of easy, pleasant, and even prosperous power.

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In the fine pasturage of the glebe meadows, the red-brown cows were gathered under a tree, out of the hot sparkle of the sun.

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

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