To get lands you often had to deal with a hundred or four hundred owners, or an entire community. […] Other properties, originally bought by a farming group for so many pesos primitivos, had through the years seen the moieties endlessly subdivided.

Jones was not antilabor and antifarm, as Poindexter had been; he had delivered wonders for agriculture in federal irrigation projects.

For each age is a dream that is dying Or one that is coming to birth. In history, what shall it be through us — a dream of acting togetherful of color dying …

Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.