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  • For the landed gentry, it was usually a snack to tide you over between luncheon and a late dinner.
  • Mr. OMAR ZEB (Farmer): (Through Translator) Whatever aid is coming here, it is channelized through the influential people of this area, like the chieftains and the maliks, and they are the landed gentry, and even the aid agencies approach them. Pakistani Flood Victims Cope Without Bridges, Aid
  • Scottish Roots usually has about 20 clients at any given time waiting in a queue to discover whether they come from peasant stock or the landed gentry.
  • The new men were not aping the landed gentry; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain.
  • The country houses of the nobility and landed gentry were largely built or rebuilt in what was known as the castellated style. [ A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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  • Note 56: Possible causes for estrangement from the Resistance movement may include unpopular sentences handed down by the partisan military or the popular courts; excessive taxes on landed gentry; political pressure; violence perpetrated by KKE against collaborators and their families, especially after the December Events of 1944 and under the banner of 'revolutionary violence'. back Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
  • Even America has its aristocracy, the landed gentry that haunt communities like the Hamptons.
  • In Parliament the House of Lords was dominated by the landed aristocracy, and the landed gentry, often related to the peerage, held sway in the House of Commons.
  • It was the natural choice for the landed gentry and a symbol of aspiration for wealthy businessmen.
  • In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats. Times, Sunday Times
  • What's particular to Cheshire is that the people have no interest in trying to pass themselves off as landed gentry. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has been the uniform of both the anti-establishment and the landed gentry, 18th-century dandies and 1970s roadies. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was the natural choice for the landed gentry and a symbol of aspiration for wealthy businessmen.
  • My father wanted him to stay at Ringwood and learn to be what he called a committed member of the landed gentry. Slightly Married
  • In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are even cellars, stables and a coach house, a hint to its previous life as a home for landed gentry, before the property was surrounded by a modern housing estate.
  • So this reform of death tax will benefit a much wider group than the landed gentry who used to worry about IHT. Times, Sunday Times
  • Death duties probably appeal to old Labourites as a way to punish the landed gentry.
  • Hondagneu-Sotelo points out that although these women don't like to think of themselves as members of the landed gentry, paternalistically doling out favors to humble dogsbodies, neither are they eager to think of themselves as "employers" in the contemporary American sense of the word, or of their homes as workplaces. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
  • The hunt once the exclusive sport of the landed gentry has in recent decades seen a change.
  • So the cap was the headdress of the underclass, the turban of the landed gentry, and the pagri of the urban rich and of the maharajas.
  • Gone are the days, she says, when this was a pastime solely for the landed gentry.
  • In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats. Times, Sunday Times
  • The new California landed gentry is indeed a reality. The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
  • But tastes are changing now that the typical country squire is more likely to be a loaded banker than landed gentry. Times, Sunday Times
  • These traps were laid to snare the bare feet of any poor poacher who dared to trespass and steal the landed gentry's game of fish.
  • Polo, as played by the landed gentry, is no longer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why should the landed gentry get to live there? Times, Sunday Times
  • The faded grandeur of the original interiors of this country house has rich decorative schemes, grand reception rooms and private quarters reflecting the opulence of life for the landed gentry.
  • The maternal side were minor landed gentry from Lorraine with a tincture of Norman blood.
  • But tastes are changing now that the typical country squire is more likely to be a loaded banker than landed gentry. Times, Sunday Times
  • She's a keen rambler, not always a fan of the landed gentry, but this Duke was different.
  • As a small tenant farmer's son he was on a level with the daughter of a country doctor, and as a highly-educated man with a university training and with some kind of professional career before him he might, in erudition-loving Scotland, have claimed admission to the highest social order next to the landed gentry. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Staying here, it's easy to imagine that you have joined a private house party with the landed gentry.
  • But unlike the southerners, voters did not tend to defer in politics to the landed gentry. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • PETER DEWAR, BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY: I think Princess Margaret will go down in the world history books as someone who is very glamorous, very edacious (ph), and indeed very hard working, especially in her earlier years, because she did undertake a great many Royal duties of one kind or another. CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2002
  • For years, the landed gentry have striven to keep secret the payments they received from Europe.
  • You get plumbers and electricians right through to landed gentry. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was the countryside seen through the eyes of the landed gentry. Times, Sunday Times
  • On both sides of her family she could trace her ancestry back to Puritan settlers and landed gentry.
  • An awful lot of landed gentry are going to end up in the docks for cultivation of a Class A drug on their land.
  • Country people were more practical, but from the 17th century, cottagers as well as landed gentry took immense pride in their plants.
  • In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hundreds of thousands of people who would never consider themselves rich find they may be at risk from a tax they once associated with the landed gentry.
  • Portraits of the aristocracy of the viceregal era include members of the clergy, the military and the landed gentry.
  • The source of ruling-class opposition was a distinct sector of the class, the landed gentry, and was perfectly rational in basis.
  • But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
  • Most of the country estates were built by the landed gentry during the late 19th century.
  • But times have changed and the chatelaine, Lucinda Shaw Stewart, has diversified into other businesses, like so many other members of the landed gentry.
  • The landed gentry lost almost all of their power and status in the industrial revolution.
  • It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
  • Still, that must be better than causing an uproar by taking the landed gentry by surprise?
  • The hard favour'd authority that the workers have presumably seen in the faces of the landed gentry is absent here. '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790)
  • In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mainly, the landed gentry did not want a messy, noisy railway anywhere near them.
  • The rumour that went round my school was that this achingly trendy troupe were actually landed gentry who didn't need the money. Times, Sunday Times
  • The area became very popular with the landed gentry and a number of substantial houses were built, including Foots Cray Place, Sidcup Place and Lamorbey.
  • The new men were not aping the landed gentry; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain.
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  • He has buried landed gentry as well as people whom he describes as being less well off.
  • Not that the landed gentry would be caught dead with a Bristol glass full of backstreet gin on their persons.
  • The heritage publishing specialist is also changing the way it chooses entries to reflect that the celebrities are now more likely to be role models than the landed gentry.
  • His father was a wealth sugar planter and his mother came from the Cuban landed gentry.
  • The landed gentry had some sympathy with popular resentment of the activities of moneyed and mercantile entrepreneurs.
  • There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonial administrators rather than landed gentry.
  • In the beginning they came from the leisured class of doctors, clergymen, and the landed gentry.

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