How To Use Tenantry In A Sentence
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He could have made a profit in such an economy, as opposed to looking for a rent increase of 70 per cent from the long suffering tenantry.
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“Umph!” said Mr. Lockhard; “and if I may inquire, Mr. Balderstone, pray do you find your people at the village yonder amenable? for I must needs say, that at Ravenswood Castle, now pertaining to my master the Lord Keeper, ye have not left behind ye the most compliant set of tenantry.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Growing tenantry is a sign of the proletarianizing process.
Farm Ownership Linked With Trades Unions
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This transferred more holdings to the tenantry than any previous Land Act had done.
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The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry on the Sligo estate has just been completed.
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The first of these stallions was kept for the benefit of the tenantry, who were granted its use free of charge.
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The book is really about land tenure and tenantry.
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In the rural districts, tenantry has increased from thirty-five per cent of the number of farms in 1900 to forty-five percent in 1935.
Farm Ownership Linked With Trades Unions
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At length one of his own tenantry, coming by, took him into Charlotte Town in a cart, but was obliged shortly afterwards to leave the island, to escape from the vengeance which would have overtaken the succourer of a tyrant.
The Englishwoman in America
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He raised a fine regiment of foot soldiers from his hardy Cornish tenantry.
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Schmiedeler, O.S.B., Director of the Catholic Rural Life Bureau of the N.C.W.C., this increased tenantry brings with it physical “erosion” of the farms, which are not cared for by those who do not own them; and social “erosion,” in the shape of irresponsible drifters; “vanishing liberty, since renters, like wage-earners, are not the free people that owners are.”
Farm Ownership Linked With Trades Unions
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Some areas of land and estates became more highly colonised by tenantry than others.
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At the time of the famine, he made valiant efforts to stop his tenantry starving.
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The men of the Cottage Hotel continued big, brown, bespurred and behatted, yet it might have been observed that the tenantry of the
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains
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There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry.
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Most of the tenantry chose to pay the rent rather than face being served with ejectment writs.
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The duke's wealth was squeezed from rents and extracted from a starving tenantry.
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Mr. Crosbie was not deterred by the difficulty of the task before him, and undertook the redistribution of his tenantry, on the anti-rundale system, and by degrees succeeded in planting the surplus population of the lowlands upon the higher ground.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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They actively discouraged emigration, fearing the loss of their workforce and tenantry.
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He transplanted much of his tenantry to found a dairy farm in 1842, only to return home, ruined, in the following year.
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If racking the tenantry is the condition on which he gets this lovely home, it is a temptation certainly.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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a shop, also the post-office of the town, and in the course of conversation informed them that his tenantry were a lazy lot of blackguards.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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For her father, however stouthearted and independent in civil and religious principles, was not without that respect for the laird of the land, so deeply imprinted on the Scottish tenantry of the period.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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In 1857 a government investigating committee learned from landlords in the Five Points that “in some of the better class of houses built for the tenantry, Negroes have been preferred as occupants to Irish or German poor; the incentive of possessing comparatively decent quarters appearing to inspire the colored residents with more desire for personal cleanliness and regard for property than is impressed upon the whites of their own condition.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Bellston was as shy, or rather as averse, as any of the tenantry themselves, to acting the part of fugleman.
A Changed Man
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The landlords have never been castigated for ousting their tenantry.
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The 40 sheep were kept by a common shepherd with the common herd, were taken every day to the downs and brought back every night to be folded on the arable fields, the rule being to fold 1,000 sheep on a 'tenantry' acre (three-quarters of a statute acre) every night. [
A Short History of English Agriculture
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The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry has just been completed.