Landlords

Examples

• Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The more prosperous landlords went to England to live, and had their children educated there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some landlords, instead of raising the rent, take a fine for the renewal of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those improvements sometimes contribute, indeed, to the discharge of the other landlords of the district. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No, I woon't: I'll be dee'd if I'll leather my boy to please you or anybody else, not if you was twenty landlords istid o' one, and that a bad un. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• HE, I promise, did not decline the obsequious invitation of the landlords to alight and refresh himself in the neat country towns. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The nobles and commoners became landlords and gentlemen farmers; it was they who directed the shipbuilding and engaged in trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some landlords, instead of a rent in money, require a rent in kind, in corn, cattle, poultry, wine, oil, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are a sort of out-servants of the landlords and farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There are landlords in China who own one or a few farms and rent them to tenants, but there are no great, permanent estates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are quite different from your uncle's tenants or Sir James's--monsters--farmers without landlords--one can't tell how to class them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Their interest as landlords and farmers would in this case be very deeply affected by such regulations, and their interest as consumers very little. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Typist: Randall