The swelling undulations of the soil, the deep, dark forests, the picturesque homesteads, with shadowy eaves and carved quaint balconies, the great gigantic wagons slowly toiling through the narrow lanes, over which the "Lindens" spread a leafy canopy,-all are of the Vaterland.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Between these two rivers lies the broad plateau of reality; and we who are Maeterlinck's disciples may add that we build our homesteads round the placid lake his teaching forms on this broad plateau between the two dangerous rivers....
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
Many others had been made and were scattered throughout the lower ranges overlooking the Wirree plains, though at great distances apart; ten, twelve and sometimes twenty miles lying between neighbouring homesteads.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard