Farmers

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.
• I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And the farmers take in lodgers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We see this acted on by farmers and gardeners in their frequent exchanges of seed, tubers, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• At first, the farm of the town was probably let to the burghers, in the same manner as it had been to other farmers, for a term of years only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The possession, even of such farmers, however, was long extremely precarious, and still is so in many parts of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The people concerned in the finances, the farmers-general, the receivers of the taxes which are not in farm, the court-bankers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By the next year McCormick was pushing his Gorham binder on the market, and the farmers who had wavered in their allegience to his reaper were returning to the McCormick fold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Some provinces are exempted from the exclusive sale of tobacco, which the farmers-general enjoy through the greater part of the kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Your rich Lowick farmers are as curious as any buffaloes or bisons, and I dare say you don't half see them at church. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is the united testimony of manufacturers and farmers alike that the crop is increased from one-eighth to one-fourth, especially in the winter wheat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The fertilizer manufacturers mix the cyanamid with other ingredients to make a balanced plant food and so ship it to farmers for feeding their crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Sicily was handed over to the greedy enterprise of tax-farmers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I can establish a good private school for farmers' sons, and without stopping the school I can manage to pass examinations. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Ask her,' said some farmers standing by, who had come out from their market-dinner, 'who belongs to her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• McCormick realized that he must give the farmers what they demanded, and he looked about for a man who could invent a new method of binding with twine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls--cottagers' children--at the best, farmers' daughters. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Common farmers seldom employ any overseer to direct the general operations of the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In Bengal, money is frequently lent to the farmers at forty, fifty, and sixty per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Farmers did not take kindly to the wire binder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The poor farmers were serfs and came two or three days out of a week to their master’s house to work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He is generally in contract with some farmers to furnish him, for a certain number of years, with a certain quantity of corn, at a certain price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But, it seems, we farmers must take so much less that the poor may have it so much cheaper. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• 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.

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