1840 , Robert Chambers & ‎William Chambers , Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Volume 8 , In the huge Music Hall of the Scottish capital is seen an acre-breadth of the human face divine—the intelligent countenances of the middle and upper classes of a city noted for its cultivation of literature and science.
1902 , Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal - Volume 196 , The cricketer who reads that the acre ' was fixed by the ordinance of Edward I. as a 'furlong in length and four poles in breadth' will notice that this acre-breadth exactly corresponds with the interval between the wickets of his favourite game.
1987 , F. W. Maitland , Domesday Book and Beyond , The gÄd of modern Cambridgeshire has been a stick 9 feet long; but the surveyor put eight into the acre-breadth, reckoning two of these gÄds to the customary pole of 18 feet.
