Someone who wanted to live in the house and keep the land might be willing to pay $500,000 for it.
And it was well for him that there should be a son, too, to keep the land together.
"And there is much he would do to keep his land."
They keep the land and start a family living happily ever after.
The family plans to keep the land as a working tree farm.
For the old families are no longer willing or able to keep the land as one great private preserve.
John was not king yet; he had to fight to keep his lands.
How can we keep the land to build on again?
"My son will need two good legs to keep the land I am acquiring for him."
Here in Alabama, the money helped farmers keep their land.