Sentence example with the word 'tenantry'

tenantry

Definition n. tenants of an estate considered as a group

Last update: August 14, 2015


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Farms were divided into infield and outfield; corn crops followed one another without the intervention of fallow, cultivated herbage or turnips, though something is said about fallowing the outfield; enclosures were very rare; the tenantry had not begun to emerge from a state of great poverty and depression; and the wages of labour, compared with the price of corn, were much lower than at present, though that price, at least in ordinary years, must appear extremely moderate in our times.   [Please select]

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To Katharine, indeed, it made little difference what philanthropic fads the man she had chosen might affect as regarded his tenantry.   [Please select]

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Old Hubert is to take command of the castle, and to bid the tenantry be ready to come in for its defence should trouble threaten.   [Please select]

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It is most improbable that a measure conceding so much to the tenantry as Mr.   [Please select]

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So he began as a farm laborer, passed through various stages of tenantry, and finally graduated into land ownership.   [Please select]

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On this great wedge grim shapes loomed in the mist, uncouth and shadowy and unnatural--a lonely, mysterious Brocken, impossible to human tenantry.   [Please select]

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All that the one estate, its castle, its village, its tenantry, represented, was the antipodes of that which the other stood for.   [Please select]

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