Of his wife, Fulvia, when there was a swelling in one of her cheeks, he said that “she tempted the point of his style;” 917 nor did Antony think any the worse of him for the joke, but quite enjoyed it; and soon afterwards, when Antony was consul 918 , he even made him a large grant of land, which Cicero charges him with in his Philippics 919 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Soon after, he removed to Orange County, where he held a large grant of land.
— from Old Taverns of New York by W. Harrison (William Harrison) Bayles

I wonder sometimes if we had A little girl or little lad, If life with all its fret and fuss Would then seem so monotonous?
— from Just Folks by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

That charter offered to any member of the company who should, within four years, bring fifty adults to the New Netherlands and establish them along the Hudson, a liberal grant of land, to be called a manor, of which the owner or patroon should be full proprietor and chief magistrate.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

For his services in the Pequot Expedition, the General Court gave him and his associates large grants of land.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

The Mexicans gave ready ear to his complaints and petition, and made him a large grant of land in the central part of Texas on the Colorado River.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

[175] Jacques Cortelyou and his associates had a large grant of land at Aquackanonck (Passaic).
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

Captain John A. Sutter, who was a captain in the Swiss Guards of Charles the Tenth of France, after the revolution of 1830 in that country, came to the United States, who some years previous had wandered across the country to Oregon, and the Russian Fur Company secured for him a large grant of land from Mexico in California, on which the city of Sacramento now stands, extending back from that city many miles to where the gold was first discovered.
— from The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by Daniel Knower