Mata Prasad, a young Dalit, or untouchable, one of India's outcastes, stood beside his tiny but verdant one-acre plot of wheat and rice.

She and her husband used the extra time to can and store potatoes, radishes and cucumbers from their one-acre plot.

In fact it appears all the more commanding, as does the little studio set behind it at an obsequious angle, now that the architect has planted privet trees all around the smooth one-acre plot.

The one-acre plots were one-acre cells to me.

Other than a single one-acre plot, it is the only commercial peach planting in the hot low deserts of California.

These on one-acre plots.

The narrator of "Retreat" has been through two amiable divorces and is now living on a mountain in Maine that he plans to subdivide into one-acre plots, suitable for men like himself.

Richardson subdivided his land into one-acre plots, which he hoped to sell to veterans with respiratory ailments suffered during World War I. He also hoped to build a respiratory hospital.

He bought one-acre plots for each in the Bend, where land was cheap, had set them on cheap foundations, and had gone to work selling them.

She plants them most mornings before going to work as a midwife, on the one-acre plot next to the 19th-century farmhouse where she and her husband raised three children.