Tenants

Examples

• The tenants have always made a living from it, and been able to send Jane a trifle beside, each year. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The same cause gradually led them to dismiss the unnecessary part of their tenants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Power was supplied from a fifty-horse-power engine to other tenants on the several floors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The landlord kept going among his tenants and finally discovered the dynamo. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Our first effort must be to find who are the tenants of Charlington Hall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But this increase of rent could be got only by granting leases to their tenants, who thereby became, in a great measure, independent of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There is not one of his tenants or servants but will give him a good name. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was a room, not unacquainted with the black ladder under various tenants; but as neat, at present, as such a room could be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• We were all tenants of his--that man's who stands there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He quarrelled with his agents and screwed his tenants by letter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This satisfied the landlord, and he started off to his other tenants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It has often led him to be liberal and generous, to give his money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the poor. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I do think one is bound to do the best for one's land and tenants, especially in these hard times. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sir Pitt went about tippling at his tenants' houses; and drank rum-and-water with the farmers at Mudbury and the neighbouring places on market-days. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Never was like what he has been since, not from the hour when to this house seven year ago me and his father, as tenants by the quarter, came! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This species of tenants still subsists in some parts of Scotland. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I let the old tenants stay on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the ancient state of Europe, the occupiers of land were all tenants at will. 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.
• This I submitted to Mr. Kyrle before I read it the next day to the assembled tenants. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As it was rather warm, some of the tenants of the numerous little rooms which opened into the gallery on either hand, had set their doors ajar. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But I should like you to tell me of another landlord who has distressed his tenants for arrears as little as I have. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was glad to be independent as to property; by fits she was even elated at the notion of being lady of the manor, and having tenants and an estate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No, no--see that your tenants don't sell their straw, and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In every country where they take place, the tenants are poor and beggarly, pretty much according to the degree in which they take place. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such a proprietor, as he feeds his servants and retainers at his own house, so he feeds his tenants at their houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Far down at the lower end of the room one of the oldest tenants on the estate started to his feet, and led the rest with him in an instant. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Land occupied by such tenants is properly cultivated at the expense of the proprietors, as much as that occupied by slaves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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.
• When he did come down, it was to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived, and waiting to speak with him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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