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noun

Rancho n. (pl. ranchos)

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. (Mexico & California)

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... return to Captain Broom and his escort, whom we left sitting on a hill covered with trees near the Sebastian rancho. Old Pete's story had been interrupted by the skipper's ...

— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt

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... water-lilies (all lumped together by the natives as 'camalote'), whilst in the woodland pools the Victoria Regis carpets the water with its giant leaves. In every wood the orange and the lemon with the sweet lime have become wild, and form great thickets. Each farm and 'rancho' has its orange-grove, beneath the shade of which I have so often camped, that the scent of orange-blossom always brings back to me the dense primeval woods, the silent plains, the quiet Indians, and the unnavigated waterways, in which ...

— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham

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... only type of the old-line drama that seems really made to be the basis of a moving picture play. Not always, but as a general rule, Belasco suffers less detriment in the films than other men. Take, for instance, the Belasco-Lasky production of The Rose of the Rancho with Bessie Barriscale as the heroine. It has many highly modelled action-tableaus, and others that come under the classification of this chapter. When I was attending it not long ago, here in my home town, ...

— The Art Of The Moving Picture • Vachel Lindsay

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... and gave himself up to thought. Nothing but a faint glimmer now remained of the beacon-light. All was still as the grave about the lonely rancho. Walking over to the eastward door he entered the dark room, and was instantly hailed by the ...

— Foes in Ambush • Charles King

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... Norris. During his visits there Mrs. Stevenson became much attached to him, and he in turn was so charmed with the place and the life that he determined to buy a ranch in the neighbourhood. As I have already said, when an opportunity offered he bought the Douglas Sanders place, Quien Sabe Rancho, intending to spend all his summers there. Writing to Mrs. Stevenson about his plans in his gay boyish ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

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