Sentences with phrase «families abandoned their land»

As the drought continued, farmers and their families abandoned their land and headed to urban areas for work.

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Cinda, a soft - spoken woman with earnest eyes, who like most women in the country wears her long black hair in two braids down her back, had three little girls and several acres of land to tend when her husband abandoned the family.

Download Free Games of the Stark family, has abandoned her home in Winterfell in order to go to King's Landing and join in her father's duty.

After her father suddenly dies from complications following a stroke, however, Chris ends up inheriting the family's farmland and decides to become its owner upon realizing how much she loves the land (thus abandoning her plans to become a teacher elsewhere).

-- Debbie Macomber, # 1 New York Times bestselling author on Ransom Canyon From the beloved and bestselling author of the Ransom Canyon and Harmony, Texas series comes a powerful, heartwarming story about generations of family and the ironclad bonds they forge When Jillian James lands in the small town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay — except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family.

Surrendered by her previous owners and abandoned at the shelter, Kensington has beat the odds by landing in a wonderful foster family.

A big reason is some of the young tribespeople are abandoning their family lands to find less arduous jobs elsewhere.